Thursday 13th October

By: Mike

 

Sightseeing in Penzance

We were supposed to be going home today, but we are staying an extra day to compensate for the days lost by the train strike.  We gave our hostess £50.00 cash.

We had a good lie-in because it’s a sightseeing day.  We start at the Gallery in Newlyn on a hunt for pictures from the Newlyn School, but it is entirely devoted to an Indian artist called Biswas.  Doesn’t float our boat.  We have a coffee and move on to Penzance.  We head for the Exchange Gallery.  More Biswas, but at least we are able to locate Chapel Street.  We find the Egyptian House and the Union Hotel, where the first news of Trafalgar was announced.  We head for the excellent Penlee House Gallery.  Finally, we find pictures from the Newlyn School, and a one-man exhibition of pictures by Fred Yeats.  They have a great café.  We sit out in the sunshine and have delicious soup and bread. 

                                                                        Fred Yeats Esplanade at Penzance
                                                                                      The Egyptian House
                                                                    View from the lovely cafe terrace at Penlee

Later we drive to Mousehole for dinner at The Old Lifeboat.  It’s a lovely restaurant with excellent service, but the food is not great at all.  They give us pickled leeks scattered with Greek cheese and call it ‘leeks a la grecque’.  We both order fish which come with over-complicated sauces.

  I give them both barrels when they ask for a review. I don’t send it publicly and here is their reply:

Dear Mike,

 I am so sorry to hear your recent meal with us here at the Old Coastguard left you feeling disappointed, I have spoken with our chefs and passed your feedback to them. 

 We are constantly trying to keep our menu ideas fresh and fill them with new dishes and it seems we really missed the mark this time & I can only apologise for that. 

 I do hope you will consider us again for your next meal out so we can show you what we usually do so well - if you do decide to give us another chance, I would love to offer you a pre-dinner drink on us whilst you peruse the menu by way of an apology for last time - please mention when booking that I have offered this to you.

 Thank you again for your feedback, it is the only way we can learn, grow and continually improve.

 Kind Regards

 Laura Barrett

 Assistant General Manager

EATDRINKSLEEP

 

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