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: 23 April
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.
One last time.
One last wine supper.
Spring
with Tom Innes
Thursday 23 April 2026, 7pm
We’ve been buying from Tom’s Monmouth shop, Fingal Rock Wines, since the late ’90s. His wines have been a fixture on our lists for nearly 25 years. Superb value, generally from la Hexagone.
He plans to say goodbye to the wine industry this year. Before he does, he visits us in Mousehole with wife, Broo. One last time, one last wine supper.
Large communal tables (they always work best). 4 courses, 4 wines, including some Chassagne Montrachet.
We’ve a handful of spaces left. Book in below.
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 2025
Our biennial (nearly annual) music & real ale festival had a mega weekend this year. Friday & Saturday were glorious and the place was bouncing. And Sunday brought a gentle calm to the weekend.
A full weekend of fun with talented local musicians and the best juice from our favourite breweries. Huge thanks to all involved. 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 2026
We’re still in the planning to plan stage. If you’re more organised than us and you’d like to get something in our diary for Christmas time please do be in touch.
Take a peek at our Note from the Landlord for a good idea of what was on last year. Note we close our doors on Christmas Day and Boxing Day.
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