The TolcarneInn

The date on the lintel reads 1717, and the Tolcarne has sat behind Newlyn's sea wall for three centuries. Since 2012 it has been Ben Tunnicliffe's pub — the chef who held a Michelin star at the Abbey in Penzance and set up the kitchen at the Scarlet — and the plate is the point here: a seafood-led menu built on the catch landed at one of the UK's most important fishing ports, backed by produce from small growers nearby, strawberries from St Hilary among them. It is a leased house rather than a free one — Punch own the freehold — run with an entirely free hand; Tunnicliffe renewed the lease in 2024 with plans for a larger dining room and rooms upstairs. A couple of casks on the bar, usually local, and live jazz at Sunday lunchtime.