I was pleasantly surprised by the fact that finding veggie foods has been much easier than I thought.
It’s much easier to find a “fish and chip” around every corner, though…but at the end of the day, if you want a snack on the beach, forget the calorie count (and the sky-high G.I.!) and you can always grab some chips, the kids will not object too.
We had a couple of not so nice experiences, and both in attempt to eat a pizza, the first one was rather bad, the second one better but still not a good pizza.
But I try to keep this blog positive and I will talk about the nice things: we stayed at a vegetarian bed and breakfast which also ran a veggie restaurant in the evenings (just some evenings though, if you plan to go better call them to check they are open).
The b&b is called Coast and it’s in Carbis Bay, the restaurant is called Bean Inn.
The menu in the restaurant changes quite often and it’s a nice mix of world foods, all with seasonal ingredients, some dishes I can remember are “tarka daal” with very nice garlic naan bread, the daal is a lentil cream you scoop up with the bread; I had a strange but nice tarte, with blue cheese, walnuts and grapes, a very good puy lentil, stilton salad with roasted beetroot pure.
As for the hotel itself, it’s nice but we had the room on the ground floor which was terribly damp (which is the main “ingredient” in the local weather) but they gave us a de-humidifier. The rooms on the second floor had the most amazing view on Carbis Bay.
One of the owner is an artist and you’ll find her pictures and art pieces everywhere, and many are for sales (cards as well).
The greatest thing for me was breakfast, because you could choose from the hot menu, as well as toast, jam and the like, there were things like scotch pancakes with maple syrup and bananas, full english (veggie) breakfast, toasted muffin, a knickerbocker-style glass of yogurt, fresh fruit and muesli… We had the pancakes many times and I have to say they were delicious!
