Going to St Austell in August, mainly to visit 'The Eden Project' and 'The Lost Gardens Of Heligan' - Staying 2 nights at the local Premier Inn, can anyone recommend places to visit or any good restaurants in the area.

the barley sheaf in goran churchtown does a good meal and a nice pint too.

Pasties ! Far to many gone...

To be fair the food in Eden is very good and well priced. Its also a full day out. Hope you have a good time,

Thanks

If you want a high end meal then I can thoroughly recommend Driftwood

http://www.driftwoodhotel.co.uk

One of the best meals I have ever had... put many London Michelin Starred places to shame in terms of service and food 2011 Stornaway Grey 5.0SC Autobiography

Seal sanctuary at Qweek, about half an hour away,
Boscastle ,
Fowey nice little fishing village and if your trip is when the regatta is on the red arrows do a display.
If your into go karting the largest outdoor track is near there, great fun when its raining, but take a change of clothes.

At Porthleven the RNLI have an day in August with the helicopter, off shore and inshore life boats.

Enjoyed it so much we are off back again this year, in two weeks time. Three things in a blokes life his dog,his car and a Cornish pasty,nothing else matters.

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Try The Polgooth Inn (Website at www.polgoothinn.co.uk). It's only about 3 miles out of St Austell. Gets very busy in the summer though, so it's worth booking.

Alternatively, if you want a nice restaurant, rather than a pub, then another really nice place I found was the Trewithen Restaurant, in Lostwithiel ( www.trewithenrestaurant.com ). We were there only a month or so ago and it was brilliant. Really friendly service and great food.

Although not particulalry 'touristy' we also found the Britannia Inn ( www.britanniainn.net ) pretty good for evenings when we hadn't booked anywhere and were coming back from a day out. We ate in the lounge bar on two nights and the food was good. They also do a very nice pint of Doombar!