Perched on the white sands of Porthminster Beach, this multi-award-winning restaurant delivers seafood dishes and seascapes whose beauty is rivalled only by the art hanging in nearby Tate St Ives.

While so many restaurants in coastal destinations close their shutters in the winter months, the perennially popular Porthminster Beach Cafe bustles regardless of the season.

From daybreak to nightfall, vibrant dishes stream from the busy kitchen and land on tables in the pared-back dining room, where they’re swiftly devoured. The heated outdoor terrace is also open all year for those wishing to dine with the salty breeze brushing their skin.

The restaurant enjoys great prestige thanks to head chef Ben Prior (formerly of Ben’s Cornish Kitchen in Marazion) and chef-owner Mick Smith’s sterling reputation for Asian- and Mediterranean-inspired cooking. The chefs craft dishes based on the bounty of produce at their fingertips – from the freshest seafood and foraged coastal ingredients to garden-grown herbs and veggies.

Menus are switched up regularly, but a typical Porthminster supper might be Cornish lobster tagliatelle or (house favourite) Indonesian-style fish curry comprising monkfish, market fish, tiger prawns, mussels and sweet potato.

Trencherman’s tip

Leave room for inventive puds like the Chocolate Nemesis of white chocolate and mint choux with dark-chocolate sorbet, or mango and marshmallow with thai curry sorbet.