Really great cream tea and friendly service! Right on the beach front.
Claire L.
Rating des Ortes: 5 Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Fab, fab, fab! Rustic but modern décor, right on the front at St Ives. Even on a rain lashed Friday, it was cosy and welcoming. We couldn’t get a table right away but staff ushered us in so we could wait for our table and shelter from the rain. Food options look lovely — the menu board was so tempting and appeared to be very Cornish in flavour by combining options composed of lovely local produce. I came for the proper Cornish cream tea — even gluten free and it comes with authentic Cornish tea(tea made in Cornwall) — yummy! Seriously, a great place. I found it on google after searching for gluten free in St Ives and it was amazing. They cater for ‘normal’ people, but most of the menu can be catered for in gluten free form — breads, cakes, scones, quiches, pastry products which I was so impressed by. The menu is marked G which shows the GF options available. Makes a change from the one or two options — usually soup or salad… The scone was to die for — two scones actually in a cream tea with clotted cream and jam and a pot of tea — £5.95 but well worth it. The scones were the best GF ones I’ve come across and my mum, although not a huge scone fan, raved about her non-GF ones all day! I even had an extra scone — purely to use up my left over jam and cream of course as it was so great. The jam was lovely — clearly local and home made and definitely not from a supermarket jar — I could have ate buckets of it with my scone it was so good. If I’m in Cornwall again, I would definitely make the trip to St Ives to check out The Tea Room — there was so much on the menu I would have had, if I wasn’t maximising the cream tea opportunity. Staff were friendly and helpful and certainly not judgemental about the GF girl and the three scones… :-)
Chris F.
Rating des Ortes: 3 London, United Kingdom
A nice, simply laid out café on St Ives harbour, where I enjoyed a very tasty leek and potato soup. One of our group received something they had specifically asked not to have with their meal, but it was an easily rectified problem.