While our bread & butter at The Old Coastguard is good eating, drinking & sleeping in the formal (and informal) confines of a hotel setting, we do from time to time step outside of this daily norm and throw something a little different.
Invite grape-loving host. Cook 5 course menu. Listen to thoughts on wine. Indulge.
Next supper: TBC
Our biennial real ale & music festival hosted in The Coastguard garden. Local musicians and breweries.
Next dates: TBC
Wine Suppers
We love our wine. You can find out a bit more about wine at The Old Coastguard here. And the ultimate celebration of our passion for an interesting drop enjoyed with an epic menu is our calendar of Wine Suppers.
They pull on our relationships we’re fortunate to have with the wine merchants & makers we list, as well as writers, MWs & industry people. Each tends to pick up on a theme or seasonal angle and put in front of you a banquet hosted by one of our wonderful wine friends.
Latest Wine Supper:
Remarkable wines you’ve (probably) never heard of
with Helen McGuinn
Thursday 12 October 2023, 7pm
With her infectious enthusiasm (as seen on BBC’s Saturday Kitchen…), Helen introduced wines a little out of the ordinary; regions & makers, grapes & growers whose relative anonymity afforded us wines of remarkable value.
All poured alongside 5 courses from Head Chef Danny who brought the wilds of West Cornwall to the table, with the foraged, the farmed, and the down-right delicious.
Our next Wine Supper is in planning. Be sure to become a Friend and stay up to date with all things events and more.
Ale & Anchor
We’ll forgive you for thinking that we’re all pretty straight-laced here at The Old Coastguard. But truth be told, we’re fairly laid back and we even like to cut loose from time to time.
Ever since the first inception of Don’t Wake the Fish festival in 2009 we’ve been pining after an EDS festival every year since. And so when the team in Mousehole started plotting a garden festival of their own we could hardly say no.
These music events (mini-festivals) bring together families & friends, locals & travellers, the north, the south and everyone in between. And it’s a special thing to pull you all in with some of our favourite local musicians & artists and fill an ale bar with some of the best brews between here and Bodmin.
Review: Ale & Anchor 2024
Our biennial (lately annual) music & real ale festival had a mega weekend last year. With Friday being washed out, we moved old friends The Odd Folk to the Saturday and Kernow King had us howling on the Sunday.
A full weekend of fun with talented local musicians and the best juice from our favourite breweries. Check out our FB page below and be sure to keep an ear out for this year’s dates.
Christmas
If Mousehole in Summer is crabbing & harbour jumping, seagulls & beer gardens, then Mousehole by winter is thick knitted jumpers & harbour lights, stormwatching & Stargazey Pie.
There’s lots going on in our little village once the nights draw in, and we try to keep up with a full calendar of our own at The Old Coastguard. Before we get to December you’ll find festive workshops (often with lunch included) and a Christmas Market showing off the best makers across Penwith.
Mousehole turns on its famous Harbour Lights a couple of weekends before the big day. Stop by our bar downstairs for a mulled wine to take on your wander. And nearer to the fat man’s arrival we host our Village Feasts, open both bars for Tom Bawcock’s Eve before closing our doors after Christmas Eve lunch for 25 & 26 December.
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Christmas 2025
Plans are hatching for our 2025 festive calendar including the return of the Village Feast and our usual NYE banquet.
For a little look at how we did it last year, click below.
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