Part of the Padstein emptire, St Petroc's Hotel is set on a quiet
street in Padstow, 4 minutes walk from the harbour. It claims to serve
European bistro-style food, thus enabling Rick Stein to fill the only
remaining gap in the market between The Seafood Restaurant (seafood),
Stein's fish and chips (fish and chips), Rick Stein's cafe (cafe), The
Cornish Arms (pub), Stein's Patisserie (patisserie), Stein's Deli
(deli) and Stein's Gift Shop (absolute tat).
The restaurant consists of a single room, running from front to back of the hotel with a wooden floor, simple uncovered tables and windows onto the street at the front and the garden at the back. It's a light room with well spaced tables, not exactly intimate but not cramped either, and with a buzzy atmosphere. It's a nice place to be.
I had gremolata prawns, which were excellent. Five or six big fat tasty prawns cooked in a sticky sauce with enough chilli to give them some zip. They were perfect with a glass of crisp Jean Marc Brocard Petit Chablis. The Doctor went for a mackerel salad, which was also really good - delicious and very tender pieces of mackerel with sundried tomato and probably some other bits and bobs too. Lovely.
Our main courses were a nice piece of haddock with butter beans, and some salmon fillet with salsa verde. Both were fresh, interesting and honest feel-good food. I tried a glass of the 2007 Saumur, which worked very well - fruit-forward, with plenty of flavour, but light enough not to overpower the fish.
Passion fruit pavlova (for her) and a pear and almond tart (for him) were both excellent.
The damage was £87 before tipping (with two glasses of wine and a G&T). Scores were 8 for food, 7 for location and 10 for having a room upstairs to crawl to afterwards. So that's 8 and a bit.
The restaurant consists of a single room, running from front to back of the hotel with a wooden floor, simple uncovered tables and windows onto the street at the front and the garden at the back. It's a light room with well spaced tables, not exactly intimate but not cramped either, and with a buzzy atmosphere. It's a nice place to be.
I had gremolata prawns, which were excellent. Five or six big fat tasty prawns cooked in a sticky sauce with enough chilli to give them some zip. They were perfect with a glass of crisp Jean Marc Brocard Petit Chablis. The Doctor went for a mackerel salad, which was also really good - delicious and very tender pieces of mackerel with sundried tomato and probably some other bits and bobs too. Lovely.
Our main courses were a nice piece of haddock with butter beans, and some salmon fillet with salsa verde. Both were fresh, interesting and honest feel-good food. I tried a glass of the 2007 Saumur, which worked very well - fruit-forward, with plenty of flavour, but light enough not to overpower the fish.
Passion fruit pavlova (for her) and a pear and almond tart (for him) were both excellent.
The damage was £87 before tipping (with two glasses of wine and a G&T). Scores were 8 for food, 7 for location and 10 for having a room upstairs to crawl to afterwards. So that's 8 and a bit.
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