This family run hotel and free house inn enjoys an uninterrupted view of the Atlantic Ocean, and therefore benefits from magnificent sunsets all through the year. The Restaurant at the Bay View Inn is a delightful spot to eat and drink, situated as it is on the picturesque Cornish coast, beautifully located overlooking the Widemouth Bay beaches.

Proprietors Dave and Cherylyn Keene have won a good number of awards from many different organisations, such as CAMRA, the campaign for real ale; Taste of the West; The Publican, presented to the best in the industry, covering a wide range from country pubs to inner city outlets, and Licensee of the Year, from the professional body for the licensed retail sector. With this amount of industry recognition, they are clearly offering quality service and good food!

Most of their produce is obtained locally from farms in Cornwall and Devon, whilst ensuring that they are environmentally friendly, it also guarantees both freshness and flavour.

Speciality dishes could include fresh Cornish mussels; medallions of beef fillet with crunchy asparagus and light juniper berry jus; a carpaccio salad; slow roasted peppers with pilaff rice and a Napoli sauce; shallow pan fried scallops served on a rocket salad, spring onions and completed with garlic and parsley butter, but doesn't neglect more familiar dishes like hamburgers - made from local Angus beef.

You are faced with a wide choice of where to eat, in the bar or restaurant or even al fresco on the deck overlooking the bay.

Drinkers will appreciate the three real ales, which even include their house beer Bay View Sunset, all drawn with a hand pump, plus their Cornish lager and cider. You might be surprised therefore to learn that The Inn holds regular mini beer festivals throughout the year.

If you are coming along with the young in tow, you will be delighted to learn that the garden contains a small playground to keep the kids amused.