Tag Archives: Rick Stein

Rafferty’s Café and Wine Bar St Merryn: open for business

You could be forgiven for thinking that Padstow is the foodie capital of Cornwall but you would be 1) narrow-minded and 2) missing out. Head just a few miles south and you reach the village of St Merryn where food … Continue reading

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Paul Ainsworth at No. 6 Padstow finally gets his Michelin star

Whenever I talk to people about the slate-roofed Grade II-listed house sandwiched between Stein outlets that is Paul Ainsworth’s No. 6, the response has always been the same. Until now. The question, “Why hasn’t he got a Michelin star yet?” … Continue reading

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The inaugural Cornwall Clandestine Cake Club

Clandestine. Cake. Club. All together in one sentence. Does the very notion send thrills down your cake-seeking veins? It did mine. A little tweet of an invite and within minutes I’d accepted to be part of an underground movement whose … Continue reading

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Knob Ends, Pokers and Cornish Chorizo

With signs to the award-winning Peckish fish ‘n’ chips in Camelford and Aunt Avice’s pasties lighting the way to Deli Farm Charcuterie, I knew I was on the right foodie road. Skinny lanes and high Cornish hedgerows later, I had … Continue reading

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Booze, blues and fish heads: Rick Stein at The Poly

“I personally think we all ought to eat fish heads.” I agree, but less so with Rick Stein’s little detailed tour of the eye eating experience: the satisfying gelatinous bit around the eye like a piece of soft plastic followed … Continue reading

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When the fairground came to town: cooking with Paul Ainsworth

I say cooking with very optimistically, this was more me watching, enthralled and then eating; being cooked for would be more accurate. But what a privilege, be it with or for. Paul Ainsworth At No. 6, Padstow has shot to … Continue reading

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