Truro Restaurant Guide

ASK - Truro

For some time I made the mistake of thinking that no group of restaurants in the region of 200 locations could hope to maintain the quality for which I was looking. Then one day I decided to put my prejudices to the test, walked into Oxford Ask! and discovered that I could not have been more mistaken.

• Address: The Royal York Hotel, 76-77 Lemon Street, Truro, TR1 2PN (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Pizza & Pasta
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £22.00

Charlotte's Teahouse

• Address: Coinage Hall, No. 1 Boscawen Street, Truro, TR1 2QU (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Café
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: N/A

Eastern Promise

For those of you for whom the pangs (no pun intended) of longing for Chinese food whilst sunning yourselves in glorious Cornwall, are overwhelming, there is but one answer - whatever the distance or other trifling inconveniences, set forth for Grampound, having first carefully reserved yourself a berth, for the reputation is great and the tables few.

• Address: 1 Moor View, Foe Street, Grampound, nr Truro, TR2 4RT (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Chinese, Cantonese, Szechuan
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £23.00

Lamplighter Restaurant

• Address: Fore Street, Probus, nr Truro, TR2 4JL (Map)
• Cuisine(s): International, Pacific Rim
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £35.00

Numberton

• Address: 10 Kenwyn Street, Truro, TR1 3DU (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Bistro
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £31.00

Pizza Express - Truro

Pizza Express remains a hugely popular bedrock of casual eating. Its popularity is testimony to the fact that across the country, they have restaurants where you will always be guaranteed a good nosh, with children's tastes being well catered for.

• Address: 1 Boscawen Street, The Coinage Hall, Truro, TR1 2QU (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Pizza & Pasta
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £15.00, Dinner: £21.00

Quarterdeck at The Nare Hotel, The

We review over 200 restaurants each month; we will be visiting this restaurant and posting our report in due course.

• Address: Carne Beach, Veryan-in-Roseland, nr Truro, TR2 5PF (Map)
• Cuisine(s): British, Grill, Seafood
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £23.00, Dinner: £34.00

Restaurant at The Hundred House Hotel

• Address: Ruan High Lanes, nr Truro, TR2 5JR (Map)
• Cuisine(s): English
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £32.00

Restaurant at The Lugger Hotel

Voted by The Sunday Times as the best new seaside hotel is not such a bad way to start out on a new venture. Run by Richard Young, formerly general manager of Olga Polizzi's Tresanton Hotel in St Mawes, and his wife Sheryl, the Lugger in many ways is representative of the new Cornwall, with its burgeoning prosperity based on fresh attractions such as the Eden Project.

• Address: Portloe, nr Truro, TR2 5RD (Map)
• Cuisine(s): British, European
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £28.00, Dinner: £40.00

Restaurant at The Rising Sun

Located in a pretty, well-protected little harbour, the Rising Sun is presided over by the West Country's only female Master Chef, Ann Long. Perhaps in these politically correct days this is a matter of no concern but what she produces most certainly is.

• Address: The Square, St Mawes, Truro, TR2 5DJ (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Modern European
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £22.00, Dinner: £44.00