Porthminster Beach Cafe

Visited with 5 University friends. Had squid and scallops to start, fish for mains with a couple of beef steaks. Excellent food and service. Very good desserts too and excellent wines. Lovely experience. Recommended.

Food is excellent, sea bass was freshly cooked and pork rib grilled to an excellent state. The beach view from balcony was fantastic and we took quite a lot photos. The service is first class. Just the price was a little bit pricy. Better to leave some time for parking the car at station car park if you come over by car.

We visited Porthminster Beach on a windy, grey day — no sunshine, but still beautiful in its own quiet way. The sound of the waves and the view across the bay made it worth it. We stopped at the Porthminster Beach Café for a coffee, which was really good and served with a smile. Even without the sun, it felt calm and relaxing — the kind of place you could sit for hours just watching the sea. Definitely worth a visit, no matter the weather.

Great lunch! It ain't cheap but lunch at the Porthminater was the food highlight of our trip to St Ives. Our dog Herbie was offered a bowl of water, very important to us as dog owners, and the service continued to impress. Polite and prompt, it is not surprise that you can find the Pothminster in the Michelin guide, the service was excellent throughout our lunch. The food was excellent, my pork cheek and my wife's monk fish curry are worthy of particular mention, and was complemented by stunning views across Porthminster beach. I can highly recommend, if you have the funds!

Beautiful restaurant with a view! Very lucky to hav a sea view seat, seafood is fresh and taste great! Love the crabmeat salad, taste refreshing, I enjoy the mussels a lot, perfectly cooked and the white wine sauce is on spot! Our waiter is very nice to make sure we have been looking after! Thank you !

Fantastic evening meal with family for a special occasion Been before so know how good it is, the food is superb, good fresh fish Service was really attentive and relaxed, and even though we had 2 young children with us there was no rush to get us out

A lovely place to eat with very friendly staff and superb food, though the prices are astronomical! We paid £40 for a seafood curry and £21 for one glass of wine. We really did enjoy it though...

Fabulous food! Catch of the day is super fresh, also LOVE the squid and seafood curry. Service is also nice, view is brilliant.

food is not bad but the service lady is rude, annoying, impatient, immature, unprofessional. doesnt look like the waitress was there to serve but there to get served. this is UK anyways.. so should have reasonable expectation regarding the civilization here and not too much complaint... a "poor" rating is fair. definitely does not deserve the Michelin recommendation. well probably the same case with most of the restaurants there. anyways, avoid going there if you can.

Every time we come to St Ives we visit this place for lunch-it's just down the steps from the train station, so easy to get too but away from most of the crowds. the dining room is quite large, but the terrace is too, so sit out if it's a nice day. -For our most recent visit we booked online but didn't seem to have a choice of table. We arrived to find our table inside, but luckily there was space outside so we moved. Our orders were taken quickly but drinks took a while to arrive-they couldn't find the wine! Nevertheless our food was very good. The vinegar was a bit too strong on my warm beef salad, but everything else was great. They do separate vegan and gluten free menus too.

Lovely dishes, great ingredients, courteous, prompt, and lively service, and a nice luminous space made our wedding anniversary dinner very special. We had the fish soup and fried white bait appetisers, both delicious, and fish & chips and plaice dish as mains, both very tasty, both fish cooked to perfection, tender, and moist, and a handmade yogurt and blueberry sorbet to close. We'll be back.

Came here for a lovely romantic dinner with Erin and was not disappointed! The stunning view out over Porthminster Beach and the bay is a delightful backdrop to first class service and a solid, yet highly original and inventive menu. To start, Erin had a tasty crab cake with chilli sauce, and I had the perfectly fried squid with a miso dipping sauce. Then for main, she had line caught wild sea bass with a ponzu and I went for the local half lobster extravaganza which comes with a mound of fresh greens, perfect baked potatoes and a home made mayonnaise. We left no room for dessert and left feeling sated but thankfully not overdone!

Yum....I love the goats cheese tart, the squid, the fish soup and all of the local fish dishes i have eaten here. Quality is great. I am not too keen on the crab linguini but that may just be personal preference. The view is to die for.

Perfect view of the beach, lovely warm service from staff, prompt delivery of delicious food with a wide variety on the menu (not too big though). Brilliant, but does get busy. They're also very warm and welcoming to even little kids :).

You won't find pasties here. This is the seaside restaurant that had me reconsider Cornwall cuisine, and service, too. The waitstaff even made custom cots for the exhausted little ones dining with us this eve. After dinner I snapped a pic of the Haloumi salad w beetroot puree vinaigrette recipe in the cookbook for sale at the register. Highly recommended (if you can get a reservation).

A reservation was hard to get so we were happy to take a table for 5 at 6 o'clock. We were told they had another booking for 8 so we would need to be done by then. So far, so acceptable. However, on arrival at the restaurant the greeter also told us this, then the waitress who seated us and took our orders also told us twice. At this point we felt we were there under sufferance and they couldn't wait to see the back of us but the food was lovely and brought in relatively good time, so things were moving along well. Then a different waitress came to ask us if we were interested in dessert but then stopped to ask us if we had time to eat it! This was at 7.15/7.20 - plenty of time to eat dessert and have a coffee. We vented our feelings and told them we felt very unwelcome all evening. Apologies were made and the desserts arrived. We were finished, had paid the bill and were out of there by 7.55pm. There was no manager to speak to, no one in authority came to smooth things over. In many restaurants a manager would have comped the wine or something to apologies but this was not the case. It was not a relaxing evening and we all felt our night out spoiled by their constant nagging. The view was lovely,the chef obviously creative - what a shame the front of house let him down like this.