Gulval, Spanish Restaurant Guide

This “lovely café” with “a view you won’t forget” is an “amazing spot for coffee, cakes and lunch” through the day, but “at its best on a sunny evening when the tide is out and the surfers are at play”. The food (from a menu whose inspiration flits from Cornwall to Spain, Mexico, the Middle East, Thailand and Japan) is “much better than at other over-hyped St Ives haunts”.