Cornwall
Coverage explores hospitality and foodservice activity across this major South West tourism region, with reporting focused on hotspots including Padstow, St Ives, Falmouth, and Newquay. Topics include seasonal restaurant and pub openings, chef-led coastal ventures, locally sourced menu trends, and the operational challenges of high summer demand. Insight is geared toward operators navigating rural staffing, holiday-driven trading peaks, and the balance between local community service and visitor volume.
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Sep- 2023 -13 SeptemberRestaurants
Loungers opens 200th site in Buckingham
Operator of the Lounge, Cosy Club and Brightside brands, Loungers, has opened its 200th Lounge site, Verdetto Lounge in Buckingham. The opening of Verdetto Lounge brings Loungers’ total estate up to 238 locations, including 35 Cosy Clubs and three Brightsides. The Lounge brand now graces the principal shopping areas of…
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Aug- 2023 -23 AugustRestaurants
Michael Caines’ Harbourside Refuge closed and put up for sale
Michael Caines’ Harbourside Refuge restaurant and bar in Cornwall has shut and been put up for sale. A statement on its website confirmed that the restaurant has been closed since 1 August. The Harbourside Refuge was opened in August 2020 after being acquired by Caines from the Rick Stein group.…
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18 AugustFeatures
In conversation with the founder of the Cornish Bakery
Can you tell us a little bit about your career leading up to the Cornish Bakery? I really didn’t have a big career, because from my early 20s I backpacked all over the world. I funded that travelling by buying and selling pub properties. I would do between two and…
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8 AugustCafes and Coffee Shops
The Cornish Bakery opens Truro branch
The Cornish Bakery has opened a large new bakery in the capital city of Cornwall, Truro, and has also announced that five other sites are in development in Canterbury, Salisbury, Harrogate, Norwich and Cheltenham. Even before it opened, the Truro Cornish Bakery was reportedly driving significant attention and comment from…
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Jul- 2023 -14 JulyPeople
RenMor at The Headland appoints new executive chef
The newly-launched £3m Restaurant RenMor at the five-star Cornish hotel, The Headland, has announced the appointment of Gavin Edney as its new executive chef. Prior to his appointment, Edney spent almost six years as group executive chef for Castlebridge Hospitality, working with Mike Robinson to develop and open The Elder…
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Jun- 2023 -12 JuneComment
All About The Cooks: the future of catering is local produce
What is All About The Cooks? All About The Cooks is an online marketplace, which enables talented home cooks to sell their food to local people. The plan was to launch earlier than 2020 but we got delayed because of the pandemic. As of now, we have 70 cooks and…
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8 JuneRestaurants
Loungers’ Brightside opens second site in Cornwall
Brightside, Loungers’ roadside dining concept, has opened its second site on the A38 at Trerulefoot in Saltash, Cornwall, today (8 June). The former Route 38 site has been completely transformed over the past four months to replicate the interiors of its sister site on the A38 south of Exeter, which…
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2 JunePeople
Port Gaverne appoints new chef
Port Gaverne Restaurant and Hotel, located on the north coast of Cornwall, has announced the appointment of Danny Young as its new chef. The appointment also coincides with the 17th-Century venue’s recent “reinvention”, having undergone an extensive refurbishment of both the restaurant and its bedrooms. Young has over a decade…
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May- 2023 -18 MayRestaurants
The Headland launches £3m Restaurant RenMor
Clifftop hotel The Headland in Cornwall has launched its new £3m Restaurant Renmor – ‘restaurant by the sea’ in Cornish – as part of an ongoing refurbishment programme at the five-star venue. The new £3m restaurant replaces The Samphire as the hotel’s signature restaurant, and similarly to The Deck Restaurant…
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17 MayPubs and Bars
The Felin Fach Griffin appoints new head chef
Eat Drink Sleep, a small group of family-owned inns has announced the appointment of Gwenann Davies to the role of head chef at its original pub with rooms in the Brecon Beacons, The Felin Fach Griffin. Davies, formerly in a senior role at the Tom Kerridge group, replaces Nick Evans,…
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