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I'm going to be in and around Falmouth from this weekend for a couple of weeks. SWMBO has said she would like to visit said pub for lunch one day when the tide allows. It's not that clear on their website if you can moor on their pontoon if you plan to eat. I've emailed the question to them, but in the meantime does anyone have any experience of this place.

Where else should we try to get to eat during this stay?
 
Ru88ell said:
I'm going to be in and around Falmouth from this weekend for a couple of weeks. SWMBO has said she would like to visit said pub for lunch one day when the tide allows. It's not that clear on their website if you can moor on their pontoon if you plan to eat. I've emailed the question to them, but in the meantime does anyone have any experience of this place.

Where else should we try to get to eat during this stay?
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Yes you can moor to their pontoon. It's quite tidal there but provided you not overly deep in draught should be fine.
 
As RobertJ says.

You could also try the Heron up at Malpas - nice location - indifferent service last time I was there.

Smugglers cottage at Tolverne.

A little tea shop opposite the above (you will see a teapot shaped sign in the woods)

Or the Shipwrights at Helford - now under great new ownership.
 
We went there several times over the last couple of weeks (by car). The pontoon dries at low water, and you will not even get there on a dinghy. I'm not a local, but you would need a considerable rise of tide to take anything with a keel there. Perhaps those more local people would advise better.

PS, since the fire it's been totally rebuilt - foods OK, but no more.
 
The Tea gardens opposite Smugglers ( Tolverne ) has now shut, shame but chatting last year to woman who owns it, it wasn't worth the hassle of staff etc.
Pandora, over priced and too busy but on Springs ( evenings) you can get alongside ,I draw 1.8 metres but it is usually mobbed with badly moored ribs etc so getting there is just the beginning of probs be careful it gets very shallow just after Pandora.
Best food waterside consistently is Helford Sailing Club, For coffee and funky then Miss Peabody's at Penryn Bridge
 
Comrade Red said:
As RobertJ says.

You could also try the Heron up at Malpas - nice location - indifferent service last time I was there.

Smugglers cottage at Tolverne.

A little tea shop opposite the above (you will see a teapot shaped sign in the woods)

Or the Shipwrights at Helford - now under great new ownership.
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Red

The smugglers is closed for the season which is a shame.
Agree with comments on the Heron, good pub nice location let down by the staff. I felt I was interfering with their afternoon last time I went.
 
nicho said:
We went there several times over the last couple of weeks (by car). The pontoon dries at low water, and you will not even get there on a dinghy. I'm not a local, but you would need a considerable rise of tide to take anything with a keel there.
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We had dinner there one night on a Day Skipper course about ten years ago - can't believe it's silted up that much. Yes, we had to keep an eye on the tide and make sure we got away to pick up a mooring in the pool before we got stuck on the mud, but we were in a fin-keeled Fulmar.

Pete
 
robertj said:
Red

The smugglers is closed for the season which is a shame.
Agree with comments on the Heron, good pub nice location let down by the staff. I felt I was interfering with their afternoon last time I went.
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Yes it is a shame the Smugglers is shut, but no great surprise with the high prices and small portions they served. Any idea what's likely to happen to it?
 
Russ my family live in Mylor, we grab a pasty from the local butchers :D The Pandora is a pile of pasta pub grub for a crazy price, what you knocked up in your boat for me was nicer. A very nice restaurant to go to is in Mylor Harbour BUT even more expensive, special treats only but then she's worth it ;) and no I don't want any underwear in the post thanks :rolleyes: I don't know, you are always trying to make a quick buck! :D
 
Whent there last week. We were moored in Mylor. From there it's a fairly easy run up in your dinghy (maybe about 0.75nm)
We were there about 2 hrs before a Springy HW.

It's a shame it's overrun with the 'London Set'. You won't hear a local accent (come to think of it I am not local).

Food nothing special
 
Russell,

another place not to be missed is the Chain Locker pub at the waterside in Falmouth town, Southern end.

Not an eating place as I remember but that's probably changed, I'm told it still reeks of seagoing under sail atmosphere, more like a museum than a pub !
 
Zagato said:
Russ my family live in Mylor, we grab a pasty from the local butchers :D The Pandora is a pile of pasta pub grub for a crazy price, what you knocked up in your boat for me was nicer. A very nice restaurant to go to is in Mylor Harbour BUT even more expensive, special treats only but then she's worth it ;) and no I don't want any underwear in the post thanks :rolleyes: I don't know, you are always trying to make a quick buck! :D
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You might have mentioned the local's pub, Lemon Arms in Mylor, good meal and a pint, then there is three eateries in Flushing.

From Mylor all the pubs are reachable by rubber duck, we used to have a annual race at MYC, starting at Mylor you had to visit the Lemon Arms, Pandora, The old Quay Devoran and the Norway Inn, interesting evening.

Brian
 
robertj said:
Red

The smugglers is closed for the season which is a shame.
Agree with comments on the Heron, good pub nice location let down by the staff. I felt I was interfering with their afternoon last time I went.
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That's a shame - now I don't live at Malpas I don't pass it on the way to the boat, and I haven't been up that far this year so far (only got as far as the anchorage at Trelissick). It was a shame they got rid of all the memorabilia from D-Day, and its last incarnation did seem a touch overpriced and small portions BUT it is a beautiful waterside location.

I am surprised though because they spent out on the new pontoon last year.
 
Zagato said:
I didn't because even though it's cheaper it's largely defrosted stuff warmed up, frozen packet veg etc but it's a nice pub, good beer but nothing special for Mrs Russ.
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Problem locally, good periods, bad periods, not eaten at Fay's for a long time for the same reason as above.

Brian
 
Thanks for the feedback folks. SWMBO used to go to the Pandora when she was a girl on holiday with parents, so it would be for old time's sake rather than because the grub was top drawer. And it's not far from Mylor, so she wouldn't have to spend too long in the boat. Rowing her there in my Avon 7, as someone suggested, would be a certain case of divorce. :(
 
Ru88ell said:
SWMBO used to go to the Pandora when she was a girl on holiday with parents, so it would be for old time's sake rather than because the grub was top drawer.
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My dad told me the other day that the Pandora was the first pub I ever went to - aged three weeks :D

Pete
 
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