Friendly, unfussy, effortlessly stylish, Charles and Edmund Inkin's dining pub is an 'effortlessly stylish' base from which to explore some of Cornwall's best scenery on the coastal path. Like sister pubs The Old Coastguard, Mousehole, and the Felin Fach Griffin, Felin Fach, Wales (see entries), it is earthed in the community, with a convivial bar, local staff, work by a Cornish artist of the month. Bedrooms have views of moors or ocean, Welsh blankets, books, a Roberts radio, fresh flowers and Bramley toiletries. A reader in Room 8, which has a log-burner and private terrace, found it 'spacious, stylish yet restrained'. It had two comfy chairs and a huge bathroom with a bath and a powerful walk-in shower. Dinner, served inside or by the fire, included 'perfectly cooked pork belly' and 'well executed and delicately flavoured whole plaice with brown shrimp, caper, samphire'. Breakfast brings local apple juice, homemade jams, kippers, a full English. 'Fantastic walks from the door with the dog, who was made very welcome the whole stay,' says another reader. 'Very friendly staff, log fires, delicious food, cosy rooms, big bubbly baths, great nights sleep. Everything was just right.' (John Charnley, and others)