First and Last Cottages, Cornwall - Food/Drink

Meat - excellent meat available from Vivian Olds butchers in St. Just who have their own abattoir

Fish - Trelawneys in Newlyn - you can order fish to take home

Shellfish - Harveys in Newlyn Coombe

Wine - locally grown wine available at Polgoon Wines in Penzance including award winning "Aval" - a sparkling cider which tastes very like champagne! Wines also available from Camel Valley vineyards.

Ice cream - available at Moomaid of Zennor; Callestick Farm and Roskilly's

Greengrocers - Thornes, Causewayhead, Penzance; Chegwidden Farm shop between Porthcurno and Sennen

Farm shops - Richards Farm Shop, Hayle; Trevaskis Farm Shop near Hayle

Cheeses - excellent range of Cornish cheeses available from Lavenders Delicatessen in Alverton Street, Penzance

Tea - Tregothnan tea, made with hand picked Tregothnan leaves

A selection of places to eat out:

Morning coffee - Lavenders Delicatessen, Penzance - their tea is particularly good, no tea bags in sight and you can definitely taste the difference; The Alverne Restaurant, 30 Alverton Street, Penzance; Blue Snappa, Penzance; Chapel Street Brasserie, Chapel Street, Penzance; Penlee House Gallery, Morrab Road, Penzance; de Wynns Coffee House, Church Street, Falmouth; La Bevanda at Casa Fina, River Street, Truro; Costa Coffee above Waterstones bookshop in Truro

Lunch - Sennen Beach Cafe; Logan Rock Inn, Treen; Turks Head, Chapel Street, Penzance; The Ship, Mousehole, Rick Stein's Fish & Chips, Falmouth with Champagne & Oyster bar upstairs

Cornish pasties - we like the ones from WC Rowe in Causewayhead the best - other good ones are sold at Warrens and Lavenders - don't buy before 1030 otherwise they won't be fresh.

Sunday lunch - The Old Success, Sennen Cove 01736 871232; Badger Inn, Lelant 01736 752181; Logan Rock Inn, Treen 01736 810495, Trevaskis Farm, Connor Downs, Hayle 01209 713931- bookings essential

Cream tea - Porthcurno Beach Cafe; Porthgwidden Beach Cafe, St. Ives near Island car park; Trelissick Gardens, near King Harry Ferry

Local pubs - The Old Success Inn, Sennen Cove; The First and Last Inn, Sennen; The Logan Rock Inn, Treen; The Cable Station Inn, Porthcurno; St. Buryan Inn; The Queens Arms, Botallack

Dinner - Chapel Street Brasserie, Chapel St, Penzance 01736 350222; Sennen Beach Cafe; The Cornish Range, Mousehole 01736 731488; Little India BYO, Penzance 01736 874642; Coldstreamer Inn, Gulval, 01736 362072; Victoria Inn, Perranuthnoe, 01736 710309; Turks Head, Chapel Street, Penzance 01736 363093; The Bakehouse, Penzance 01736 331331; Taj Mahal, Daniel Place, Penzance 01736 366630; No. 2 Fore Street, Mousehole 01736 731164; On Shore, St. Ives 01736 796000; Kota, Porthleven 01327 562407; Porthminster Beach Cafe, St. Ives (my favourite) 01736 364408. Please phone before setting out because most places will close for a couple of weeks in winter for refurbishment and in summer they get booked up very quickly.

For further information consult www.eatoutcornwall.com where you can search under Land's End or Penzance.

Top end/celebrity restaurants - Abbey Restaurant, Penzance; Jamie Oliver's Fifteen at Watergate Bay, Newquay; Rick Stein's Seafood Restaurant, Padstow; Restaurant Nathan Outlaw, St. Enodoc Hotel, Rock

Take-away - no-one delivers in either the Sennen or Porthcurno areas. You can get fish and chips from Sennen or St. Just but they tend to close by about 8pm in the winter. You can also order Chinese from St. Just or Chinese/Indian from Penzance) and collect it. Curry Corner in Penzance will deliver to St. Buryan so that you can collect it from there.