The Old Coastguard

‘My favourite hotel anywhere in the world,’ writes a reader, of this welcoming pub-with-rooms in an enchanting fishing village. The third venture for the Inkin brothers (see The Felin Fach Griffin, Felin Fach, Wales, and The Gurnard’s Head, Zennor), it has their signature relaxed, child-friendly, dog-friendly ambience and understated chic. ‘The rooms are perfect (and the views).’ Some bedrooms have a balcony; all have ground coffee, books, Bramley toiletries, a Roberts radio, no TV. Other readers had a top-floor double with adjoining twin room. ‘Both were spacious, as was the bathroom, which boasted a walk-in shower (very powerful) as well as a bath. Decor was very tasteful, the bed very comfortable.’ Eat at an oak table by the fire, on the sun deck overlooking the sub-tropical garden, or on the sea-facing terrace. There was praise this year for ‘chicken liver parfait with just the right amount of toast and onion marmalade, perfectly cooked pork loin with rösti, hispi cabbage, toffee-apple purée and cider sauce’. At breakfast, there is muesli, soda bread, apple juice, smoked salmon, the full Cornish, and ‘the marmalade is a highlight’. (Mick Eldridge, John Charnley, and others)