The Navy Inn

Penzance is not a town with an over zealous approach to tourism, and The Navy Inn bears witness to the residents' no-nonsense approach to life - it's a real pub, utterly devoid of pretentiousness, but with a serious intent to serve up good food and drink. So in this white-painted inn adjacent to the seafront you will find proper beer, 12 or so wines by the glass, and unshowy food that is genuinely based on local produce. Given the location, with Newlyn a short cast away, seafood is a strong suit - fisherman's pie, perhaps, or scallops with crisp bacon, cauliflower purée and a fig and almond dressing - but there's local meat, too (slow-cooked rump of organic lamb, perhaps), plus ploughman's (Cornish cheese of course) and sandwiches. They cure their own meat here too, make the ice cream, bake their own bread, etc. All this in a pub that looks like a pub, right down to the stone walls, flagged floor and beamed ceiling.