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Star & Garter

Name: Star & Garter
Address: 52 High Street, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 2AF, Falmouth, GB
Telephone: 01326 316663

Chef Angus Bell leads a corn-focused modern British kitchen at this historic Falmouth pub, serving seasonal small plates and celebrated Sunday roasts.

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The story

Star & Garter Falmouth: Modern British Dining by Award-Winning Chefs

The kitchen and its direction

Star & Garter in Falmouth delivers a considered approach to modern British cuisine under the leadership of Chef Angus Bell and his colleagues from Mine. The venue holds recent recognition from The Good Food Guide for its consistent execution and focused use of regional suppliers. Every menu rotation begins with what local fisheries and farms can provide that week. The kitchen maintains its own cutting station to honour a practical waste-not philosophy.

Seasonal plates and classic staples

Daily catches arrive from nearby working boats and form the foundation of their modern British dishes. Charred monkfish appears alongside chicken butter and smoked potatoes. Butcher-prepared offcuts take centre stage in tender beef cheek dumplings resting atop crushed peas and sharp pickled onions. Shepherd’s pie nuggets glazed with the house recipe for dark brown sauce complete the smaller plates.

Street-side warmth and historic surroundings

The dining room sits within a Georgian townhouse that evolved from an 1892 Victorian public house. Original harbour-facing tables now belong to the serviced apartments above, leaving the ground floor to focus entirely on communal seating and a bright street-facing bar. Guests order small plates and craft cocktails while browsing a globally sourced wine list with detailed annotations. Attendees experience an attentive service style that avoids overbearing interruptions during meals.

Recognition

Awards & accolades

2026

The Good Food Guide

Good

Details

At a glance

The Good Food Guide 2026 — Good

Cuisines Modern British

Services Air Conditioning, Bar, Breakfast, Dinner, Outdoor Seating, Private Room, Set Lunch Menu, Table Service, Takeaway, Wi-Fi

History

On the record

2026

The Good Food Guide — Good

* Chef Angus Bell and the team from nearby restaurant Mine are now running the kitchen. Watch for a new review coming soon.* Smartly updated as a pub/restaurant with three boutique apartments upstairs, this born-again Victorian pub (circa 1892) is reaping the benefits of a modest makeover – although the views of Falmouth harbour from its dining area are as entrancing as ever. The chef is keen on Cornish ingredients, and fish from the local boats is a strong suit – perhaps BBQ monkfish partnered by chicken butter, smoked potatoes and mussels. The kitchen also has its own butchery and a ‘waste nothing’ philosophy that yields some intriguing results on the plate, from shepherd’s pie nuggets with the pub’s own brown sauce to smoked beef-cheek dumplings with smashed peas and pickled onion rings. Not surprisingly, top-notch Sunday roasts are a given here, and readers are full of praise for the ‘perfectly cooked’ rump of aged beef with all the trimmings (including ‘Yorkies as big as your head’). For afters, don’t miss the blackberry cheesecake mess or the ‘divine’ sticky toffee pudding with a ‘burnt’ banana, Pedro Ximénez caramel and clotted cream. Service is ‘attentive but not overbearing’, while the drinks list features some well-annotated global wines alongside expertly crafted cocktails and local ales.

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52 High Street, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 2AF
Falmouth, United Kingdom
01326 316663
staystarandgarter@gmail.com
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