Despite nearly a week in Cornwall, we hadn't yet had any pasties, so that was rectified on our last full day down here. We drove along to Penzance and whilst buying a few bits in a clothes shop, asked the assistant where the best place to buy pasties was. She named one of the local bakers without hesitation and another customer immediately joined in to second the recommendation. So we took their advice and bought a traditional steak pasty for Tris and a chicken one for me. Now, as someone who doesn't like pepper, I don't usually get on well with pasties and I was hoping that the chicken might be less peppery. We set out to walk along the beach to St Michael's Mount and stopped halfway for pasties on a rock. I have to say that my pasty was good and the creamy chicken filling would've been great, but for a liberal dose of pepper ... oh well, I'm just not destined to be a pasty-eater. It was another lovely sunny day though and the walk was great, with a stop for afternoon tea in Marazion.
In the evening, we'd booked into another Mousehole restaurant, The Cornish Range for our last dinner. I'm not sure whether it was just because we'd been spoilt with such good food all week, but it was a bit of a disappointment. It was a nice enough little restaurant, but the hollandaise sauce on my sole had definitely split and ended up as a pool of melted butter in the bottom of the dish and the sauce with Tris's sea trout was rather watery. It felt like they were perhaps trying to be a bit too adventurous with nicely cooked local fish but accompaniments that didn't quite hit the mark. We did have a bottle of really nice local wine though; Atlantic Dry, a really lovely crisp white from Camel Valley wines - definitely one to look out for.
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