W. Harvey and Sons
The Combe
Newlyn
Penzance
TR18 5HF
Tel. 01736 362734
Open 8 a.m.–12.45 p.m. and 2 p.m.–4.45 p.m. Mon–Fri, 8 a.m.–11.45 p.m. Sat.
The place for crab. Freshly boiled crab, laid out each day with hens on one side and cocks on the other. Sold by weight. Also sell freshly picked crab meat divided into white and brown and dressed crab.
W. Harvey and Sons Shellfish Tanks
South Pier
Newlyn
Penzance
TR18 5JZ
Tel. 01736 367536
On the water’s edge a large industrial building full of large, shallow concrete tanks full of live crabs, spider crabs, crayfish and lobster. You choose and Harveys will scoop it out of the tank. Available all year round.
J. H. Turner & Son
The Coombe
Newlyn
Penzance
TR18 5HF
Tel. 01736 363726
One of the best places to buy fresh fish from the market. Whatever is in season is laid out on an iced display counter but they can get anything to order. There’s always a box of carcasses and small, damaged fish for free; just help yourself. Perfect for fish stock and soup.
Trelawney Fish
78 The Strand
Newlyn
Penzance
TR18 5HW
Tel. 01736 361793 and Freephone 0800 5877984
Trawler owners offering freshly caught fish from their distinctive fishy-mural harbourside shop. ‘Shore to door’ service; order before noon Mon–Fri for delivery by 11.30 a.m. the next day.
The Newlyn Fish Company
Unit 15
Stable Hobba Industrial Estate
Newlyn
Penzance
TR20 8TL
Tel. 01736 369814, Fax 01736 350916
One of many EU-approved wholesalers on this unprepossessing industrial estate but one of our favourite suppliers when someone wants to take fish back to London. Place your order and they chill-pack for the journey.
Seafayre Cuisine
Unit E
St Erth Industrial Estate
Rose-An-Grouse
Hayle
TR27 6LP
Tel. 01736 755961
www.seafayrecuisine.co.uk
Daily fresh, locally caught fish. Same-day collections/deliveries must be made before 10 a.m. Prices fluctuate daily on their website according to Newlyn market prices, so always ring to check or leave order on overnight message service and they will come back to you with prices or alternatives. Orders, individually packaged and gel-packed, despatched within 24 hours and sent by Amtrak at £15 per order; £25 on Sat.
Cornish Fish Direct
Tel 01736 332112
dee@cornishfish.co.uk and www.cornishfish.co.uk
Sadly, as we went to press, the only working traditional salt-fish-processing factory (aka fish store) run as a ‘working museum’ in Newlyn closed. Until October 2005 it was possible to see, amongst other things, seventy-year-old screw presses used to pack the fish in wooden boxes for export to Italy, where they had been sent since 1905, and Britain’s oldest pilchard-net-making machine. It is still possible to buy traditional Cornish salt pilchards, cured and canned or bottled, from the shop. Ring for nationwide stockists. Also mail-order fresh Cornish fish.
Local Fisherman
Jake Freethy/Go for It, based at Newlyn Harbour.
Tel. 07977 027351
Fresh fish in season. Advance notice required.
Andy’s Fresh Fish Door to Door Deliveries
Tel. 01736 731396 or 07714 439847
Market-fresh and smoked fish delivered daily, plus shellfish to order.
Vivian Olds
2 Chapel Road
St Just
Penzance
TR19 7HS
Tel. 01736 788520
www.vivianolds.co.uk
Local meat including game, home made sausages, home cured bacon, organic eggs etc.
Lentern Family Butchers
1 Chapel Street
Penzance
TR18 4AJ
Tel. 01736 363061
Local meat only, from farms where animal welfare is a priority. Hog’s pudding, a Cornish version of black pudding, is a speciality.
Mail order.
S. Jelbert
9 New Road
Newlyn
Penzance
TR18 5PZ
Tel. 01736 66634
Open between 1 April and end October. Totally dairy ice cream made daily with clotted cream. Sold in cornets or polystyrene tubs for the freezer. Also clotted cream, which can be ordered for delivery by mail order.
Cusgarne Organics
Cusgarne Wollas
Near Truro
TR4 8RL
Tel. 01872 865922
cusgarne@freenet.co.uk
Buy direct from the farm or enrol for their vegetable box scheme of organic, home-grown produce.
Bosavern Farm
Bosavern
St Just
Penzance
TR19 7RD
Tel. 01736 786739
joandguy@bosavern.fsnet.co.uk
Everything sold is home-grown or home-reared, including grass-fed Hereford beef, free-range pork and organic, free-range eggs. Also organic vegetables. Farm shop.
Keigwin Natural Growers
Keigwin Farmhouse
Morvah
Pendeen
Penzance
TR19 7TS
Tel. 01736 786425
g.wyatt–smith@virgin.net
Organic salads, herbs and vegetables.
Penzance Country Market
St John’s Hall
Every Thursday
Penzance Farmers’ Market
Wharfside
Every Saturday
Useful food websites
www.foodtrails.co.uk
www.foodfromcornwall.co.uk
www.organicssouthwest.org
www.country-markets.co.uk