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Welcome to the Polgooth Inn

A classic old Cornish village pub set in a beautiful rural valley near St Austell

Welcome to the Polgooth Inn a classic old Cornish village pub set in a beautiful rural valley between St Austell and Mevagissey.

Alex & Tanya Williams, British Institute of Inn-keeping Licensees of the year 2018, have been at the helm since 2010.  Inside you'll find comfortable, relaxed surroundings, and a warm friendly atmosphere; a great place to meet for a drink with a glass of wine or a pint or two, a quick lunch time bite, or a long lingering dinner with friends and family.

You can enjoy cosy open fires in the winter months, and the summer overlooking stunning views listening to live music in our beer garden.

Please inform us if you are bringing a dog when booking as Well-Behaved quiet dogs are welcome. +44 (0)1726 74089




Polgooth Inn
Ricketts Lane,
Polgooth,                                  St Austell
PL26 7DA Our Menu | Wine List | Children's Menu | Friday & Saturday Breakfast |Christmas Menu 2018

We are now open all day, every day for food; opening for Teas & Coffee from 10am.  Our Main menu is served between 12 noon and 9.30pm, and Breakfast is available on Fridays and Saturdays between 7.30am 'til 10am.

Using the very best local produce from Cornwall we offer an impressively extensive menu, from traditional pub classics to our seasonal signature dishes. Our specials boards are always changing so you will never be stuck for choice!  Whatever you fancy, we’ve got something for you –As well as all the tasty savoury choices we have a selection of homemade desserts to tempt you with.

We have our kitchen garden which is a big part of our menu, mainly focusing on herbs, vegetables & salad produce. We keep our own chickens for eggs & one day hopefully pigs!

We are a family run community pub, we listen to our customers and we appreciate all feedback.

Wines & Beers

Our Beers come from the South Wests leading brewer, with an unfailing commitment to quality and innovation, they produce many of the South West’s most successful and popular beers including, Tribute, Proper Job, HSD, Cornish Best, and Korev lager, beers of which Walter Hicks would have been proud. With our cask marque award, we at the Polgooth Inn strive to serve our beers at the highest quality possible.  Look out for our craft, seasonal ales and fantastic bottled beers!

We work very closely with our wine supplier Walter Hick’s Wines to produce an extensive wine list, with offerings from all over the world and our own doorstep in Cornwall. In 2013 we won Wine House of the Year sponsored by Joseph Perrier Our traditional 16th Centurypub and Polgooth (meaning Goose Pond in Cornish) are steeped in history.  By the eighteenth century the village had the richest mine in the United Kingdom and was celebrated as the greatest tin mine in the world.  The Inn was used as the Pay House, and this was rumoured to have nearly caused a revolt by the miners’ wives as their husbands were spending their wages on beer and sandwiches before returning home.

History tells us that the bar was shared by chickens, ducks and even the odd horse, with many locals still remembering having to wipe their feet on the way “out” of the pub.  Although sounding a little gruesome, they all loved the place. Check out this film from 1967 with David Rowe the land Lord at the time with some rather strange customers Click here The Count House

Meeting Room

The Polgooth Inn with ample parking and accessibility can now cater for all your business and training needs. Click here to find out more or call 0172674089

Our Kitchen Garden

Make mine a pint of vegetables! by Sam Corfield

Picture this: you’ve popped into the Polgooth Inn for a swift drink or a bite to eat! If you’re lucky enough you’ll spot my beard(attached to my face), rambling on about vegetables and offering unusual edibles to try.

So what’s going on here? Since Tanya and Alex (Landlady & Landlord) have been at The Polgooth Inn there has always been some sort of vegetables/herbs/fruit growing in one way or another, but very much on a small scale.

Then in 2015 I arrived! I mean, I pretty much arrived when I was 18 but for recreational liquid consumption and not vegetable garden creation!

I didn’t particularly grow anything at first; I looked at what was growing and made a plan for winter.

In early 2016, shin deep in mud, I started on a new vegetable garden. It would be in full view of the pub garden, complete with gravel paths and raised beds.

I find the biggest part of growing your own produce at any business is promoting it to you, the customer. This can be done with information boards, on the menu, social media or a view able garden. Without these you could grow copious amounts of veg which then appears on a menu without a single person appreciating where it’s been grown!

So what do we grow? We grow some fairly standard vegetables (with a twist) and some not so standard ones. This year has seen potatoes that have purple and red flesh, rainbow carrots, Cucamelons, round cucumbers, purple beans, multi coloured corn to name but a few.

The one thing I’m rather proud of, apart from my beard, is managing to grow nearly all the cucumbers used in the kitchen over this summer. It’s a lot, 1678 straight and bendy ones, all grown on site with zero food miles and plenty of flavour. It wasn’t easy but it proves that you don’t have to buy them in!

I try to not grow anything normal but what is normal? Normal is boring! Normal is commercially developed varieties that we all buy from the supermarket!

Why grow red tomatoes when you can have heritage, colourful and flavoursome varieties? Or green mange tout when you can have super sweet yellow or earthy purple varieties?

Since the new garden was built we’ve expanded even further. We currently have two polytunnels with a third on the way and a new field for larger crop quantities.

For 2018 we should have a new, more organised herb garden that the chefs can access straight from the kitchen as well as a large fruit enclosure!! The new tunnel will have miniature kiwis, lilac bell peppers and more heritage tomatoes. Over the years, most restaurants and pubs with large kitchen gardens were high end, Michelin-starred/celebrity chef owned establishments but this is slowly changing.

Over the past three years the kitchen garden at The Polgooth Inn has expanded perfectly as we test different crops, their financial viability and how they fit onto the menu.

If we can provide healthy, fresh and unusual crops on site and help educate adults, children and other businesses to give it a try, then that’s not too shabby.

It’s also not a bad excuse to pop in, play spot the beard and have an alcoholic beverage!! Great Places to Stay

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