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Ex-Masterchef contestant Lee Groves has recently taken over the restaurant, and it's fast
becoming a destination dine.
Eating
Ben's Cornish Kitchen
BRITISH
££
( 01736-719200;
www.benscornishkitchen.com
; 1-/2-/3-course lunch menu £12/15/18, dinner mains £14-23;
lunch noon-2pm, dinner 6.30-8.30pm Tue-Sat; )
Young chef Ben Prior has really made waves since
opening his Cornish kitchen on Marazion's main street. Diners now travel from far and
wide to taste his exciting and imaginative cooking, which majors on Cornish flavours with
a French influence: local pigeon, pork, turbot, and John Dory, laced with port reductions,
confit shallots and rich bisque sauces. Often he just dreams up the menu on the day, and
tailors the menu around customers' requested dishes - and you can't get more personal
than that. It's so popular he's recently expanded upstairs. Definitely one to watch.
ECO-ESCAPES
Lost in the remote countryside around Sancreed, the dreamy retreats offered by
Plan-It Earth
(
01736-810660;
www.plan-itearth.org.uk
;
Chyena, Sancreed; from £978 per week in summer; ) are
perfect for a green getaway. Owners Rachel and David have built two amazing roundhouses: a 'hobbit house'
made from cord wood and cob, and a 'straw bale' house made from cob, straw and earth plaster. They're defin-
itely not roughing it though, both come with composting loos and star-view roofs, and are furnished with sheep-
skin rugs, lanterns and woodburners. Eco-adventure holidays and wild camping are also offered. Green and glori-
ous.
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Perranuthnoe to Praa Sands
East of Marazion, the coast dips and dives past a series of sandy stretches, including the
small beach of Perranuthnoe and the well-known family-friendly beach of Praa Sands.
In between is the rocky nook known as Prussia Cove, once a notorious smugglers'
haunt thanks to the exploits of the infamous 'free trader' John Carter, the so-called King
of Prussia (supposedly due to his resemblance to the Prussian monarch Frederick the
Great). Born in 1770, Carter became one of Cornwall's best-known smugglers, running
