Esteemed chef Adam Handling MBE’s latest project, The Tartan Fox, Cornwall, is named in reference to the chef’s Scottish heritage and is a sibling to his Windsor pub, The Loch & the Tyne.

This dining pub near Newquay delivers sustainable British pub food crafted using quality Cornish produce. Its setting on a 30-acre site in rural Cornwall has inspired the foxy theme: the chef describes it as ‘a den to escape to in the countrysideʼ.

Prior to its launch, the 400-year-old Grade II-listed building was given a refurb and has been decorated with dried flowers and artwork to create a comfortable setting for classic pub dishes served by a friendly front-of-house team.

Start any visit with Handling’s signature and utterly delicious sourdough bread with chicken butter, and an order of ‘cheese doughnutsʼ, before hitting up an unusual interpretation of a Cornish crab cocktail which features the flavours of yellow curry, salted cucumber and sea herbs.

Follow that with a main of chunky fillet of hake on a bed of white beans in chicken-butter sauce with fresh fennel and seaweed, which captures the locale and the chef’s culinary style in a single dish.

Those who haven’t made it to Stonehaven in Scotland for an old-school deep-fried Mars Bar can experience the zhuzhed-up version here, with the added indulgences of salted caramel, toffee ice cream and fudge.

Trencherman’s tip

In sunny weather, book an umbrella-shaded table in the pub’s front garden.