Part of St Ives' growing roster of hipsterfied food and drink spots (wine bars Little Palais and St Eia are straight out of Hackney), One Fish Street takes diners on a globetrotting food tour from the comfort of its diminutive first-floor dining room. The tasting menu might start with turbot and brill aguachile loaded onto tiny tacos, before sriracha-doused tempura kale and Indian-inspired tandoori gurnard arrive at your table. Despite Chef Bradley Monk's wide-ranging culinary influences, the heart of the matter is fresh fish sourced from small, inshore dayboats. Sommelier Charlotte ensures each course is perfectly paired, whether with some English sparkling wine by Gusbourne, a cucumber martini or umeshu plum sake. A simpler grillhouse menu is served on selected weeknights, too.

Not a restaurant per se, this gourmet update on the beach shack is a foodie mecca for seafood savants. Follow the coastal footpath out of Portscatho to reach the buttery sands of Porthcurnick. There, you'll find a pale green hut where walkers are rewarded with hearty, seasonal soups (say, a smoked haddock, bacon and clam chowder topped with sourdough croutons and dill), pasties and tempting cakes. From May to September, it also hosts phenomenally popular Feast Nights - firelit, al fresco supperclubs where diners tuck into vats of seafood paella or barbecued lobster as the wine flows.

Step aside, Rick Stein; there's a new star on the Cornish food scene. Emily Scott's nostalgic, unpretentious flavours are a breath of fresh Atlantic air, served in a light-flooded dining room atop Watergate Bay Hotel's seawall. Dishes such as ray wing with brown crab hollandaise, truffle-laced scallops and a "seaside days" dessert of toasted-hay soft-serve and rhubarb sorbet are pure crowd-pleasing perfection. Around running this wildly successful restaurant, the chef has also managed to pen two beautifully illustrated cookbooks and cater private events, from the G7 summit in 2021 to a new wellness retreat at nearby Atlanta Trevone.

Talk about a sea view… Adam Handling's food waste-fighting, fine-dining restaurant seemingly floats above Carbis Bay, floor-to-ceiling windows flooding the space with St Ives' famous, artist-attracting light. Each item on the tasting menu is a miniature masterpiece, too. Take the enigmatically named "all about the crab", which sees dainty tartlets of white crab meat and horseradish nestled in a pebble-filled shell alongside a quenelle of brown crab butter for slathering onto sourdough crumpets - a seafood classic taken to new heights. An Asian or Italian accent is often discernible, in dishes such as nori-wrapped cod or barbecued squash agnolotti in a dashi broth. Be sure to sample one of the fiendishly creative cocktails, which make use of seeds, peels and pulps from the kitchen.