Ugly Butterfly menu
Today is another planned gentler day. The original intention was to alternate such days but a change in plans meant that we have two together, although we are driving further than we did yesterday. Adam Handling has worked with the Carbis Bay Estate to develop another restaurant on the beachfront – the Ugly Butterfly.
We amble down the A30 as we have allowed plenty of time and as we drive around the water’s edge in Hayle I find a garage and can fill up the car with petrol – we have used quite a bit of a tank of petrol – but we are not quite half way through the trip – so a further fill up will be needed to ensure we get home.
Once we reach Beach Road in Carbis Bay I pass the public car park and given that it is a long way above the beach and indeed above our destination I am very glad that we can park close to the restaurant. We find the road terminates at the hotel entrance and there is parking adjacent to the restaurant but no obvious spaces so we swing up and park in the hotel car park. They confirm that is acceptable to park there and we walk down the steps to the restaurant.
We have an initial drink in the bar and find that the Maitre d’ today was at the Tartan Fox when we were there earlier in the week. Within the dining room we are centrally placed over-looking the beach. The sun is shining and it is much warmer than anticipated and we can watch the people and more especially the dogs on the beach romping around.
Both the bar and dining room have been beautifully decorated and are a pleasure to sit in for some hours as we work our way through the 7 course menu. Unusually it is hard to determine which was the best course as it was all excellent and I am torn. The crab may have been the best – but then that would imply that the duck or scallop or cod was less than perfect and that would not be right. Apart from the scallop and the rhubarb everything was sourced from within Cornwall and so the magic food miles were low – although so far from home ours were not.
Ugly Butterfly treats
It is a long lazy afternoon as the diners come and go around us. As we leave through the bar others are simply having fish and chips and enjoying the view over the beach as we have been doing alongside our meal. (Photographs copyright Jackie Whitbread).
We eventually head back up the A30 returning to our caravan where we can again enjoy some sunshine.