The dining room in Penrose Bed & Breakfast, where breakfast is served, is a beautiful reminder of the opulence of a bygone era, with a large slate fireplace with log burner, cornicing, picture rail and very high ceiling. We also have something of this day and age – a computer with Internet access, which is for anyone to use, and usually has photos from around Cornwall showing.

Breakfast consists of your choice off the cold buffet. This includes a choice of branded cereals with semi skimmed milk, fresh fruit, grapefruit segments, nuts & seeds and you can make as much toast (white or seeded brown) as you want, and condiments include locally made jam and homemade marmalade, plus marmite, honey, lemon curd, nutella and peanut butter. We try to cater for other dietary requirements, so please let us know how we can help.

The Full Cooked English Breakfast consists of locally farmed unsmoked back bacon, locally farmed and handmade sausages (from Liddicoats butchers in Lostwithiel), locally farmed free range eggs either fried or scrambled, grilled fresh tomato, black pudding, hash browns, fresh mushrooms and Lincolnshire vegetarian sausages, or you can have two kippers with a fried egg. You have a choice of tomato sauce, brown sauce, Worcestershire sauce, vinegar, tobasco sauce and English mustard – if you require any other accoutrement please let us know.

We wait until you arrive in the dining room before we start to cook your breakfast, so everything is fresh on the plate.

Beverages include a selection of tea & herbal teas (peppermint, lemon, camomile, earl grey, green tea etc), freshly ground medium roast coffee served in cafétieres, orange juice, cranberry juice, bottled mineral water and squash. For those who are cutting down on the caffeine, we have decaf tea, and decaf cafetiere or instant coffee.

A Cornish Cream Tea is offered between 4pm and 6pm every day during summer; just let us know in the morning. This includes two homemade scones, locally made jam, Cornish clotted cream, butter and a pot of tea or coffee. This is priced at £3.50 per person, and is served in the dining room.

‘Thank you for the warm welcome. Loved the breakfasts! We need to go home now while I can still fit Peter through the door!’ – Diane & Peter