It isn’t too often we get excited here at the GCG about an app… we love interactive techy things but apps just haven’t gone big on our radar until we discovered something a little...
As featured on ITV’s Home Sweet Holiday Home with Lisa Faulkner, Ben Quinn is going great guns with his fabulous Catch & Cook days. You might have seen him out on the Helford or in St Agnes fishing and prepping his rather delicious...
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If you’re a fresh produce lover, you’ll survive well without the supermarkets. There’s every chance you’ll discover fresher, tastier and more interesting ingredients using a local box scheme, a farmers’ market, a local deli or...
Queen bee of Cornwall Food and Drink and the newly launch Choose Cornish & Cornish Café Trail Ruth Huxley is somewhat a fan of Cornish food and produce. Championing locally sourced food is what began her ‘Choose Cornish’ Challenge....
We are pretty spoilt for beaches Cornwall. Our GCG favourites are constantly changing with new contenders for the best Cornish beach fighting for sandy supremacy. With the spring sunshine streaming through our HQ windows we are toasting...
Not just one but two fantastic international festivals are happening in Fowey this May 2013. Cornwall International Male Voice Choral Festival, followed by Fowey Festival of Words and Music (formally the Daphne Du M fest). Flex your...
When you’re greeted by a friendly Labrador wearing a string of pearls you know you’re in for something a little bit special, and Dolly’s Tea Room and Wine Bar certainly lives up to its quirky but charming first impressions....
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After nearly five years of motivating, inspiring and showcasing great writing in Cornwall and beyond, Telltales is holding its last bi-monthly reading night on 30 April at Dolly’s Tea Room and Wine Bar,...
Rock Oyster Festival 2013 is taking a rather fab shape. No summer calendar is really complete without tickets to the festival and now is the time to get excited and to snap them...
Heartlands is bringing a new and exciting FREE festival to Cornwall this May – Kernow Fest – a one day extravaganza celebrating Cornish culture and bursting with fun, food and frolics....
The crew at Cornwall Food and Drink have put together something a little bit cool; a trail of Cornwall’s most tempting independent cafés....
I heard about the Falmouth Pop-ups on the proverbial grapevine (read: Facebook) and wanted to meet the founder, Annie. Choc-full of energy and enthusiasm about pop up restaurants, jams, art and building her garage; Annie is a complete...
What we need here is an easy, time-saving way to get all this lovely produce in one place so it can be bought hassle-free, preferably at a lower cost than the supermarkets to provide an incentive to support local farmers and producers....
One of my favourites spots in Cornwall is Porthminster beach (specifically Porthminster Beach Café… salt & chilli squid is divine). For the fourth annual St Ives Food & Drink Festival organisers are moving their pitch to the...
“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and...
A little birdie told me that the Cornwall Home Show is returning to Kingsley Village on Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 April 2013 and this year includes a seminar from architect, and past contestant of BBC’s The Apprentice, Gabrielle...
Michael is a rap star … or at least he is when he dreams, but growing up in rural Cornwall he’s never had a chance to find his community. One day, after being kicked out of home after a fight with his father, he sets off to London...
March is the best month for mussels. Gorging on juicy mussel flesh plucked from beautiful blue shells and dunking fistfuls of perfectly fried fries into the mussel sauce – be it marinière or garlic & chilli – I am there with bib...
Hailing from our very own county, Helen Glover MBE made waves in more ways than one at London 2012 when she became Team GB’s first gold medallist and claimed the first ever British Olympic gold medal in women’s rowing. Having only...