Scarlet Wines in Cornwall, Isles of Scilly

Leaving local coming twice a year service is toooooo slow need sort it not coming again saaaad

I went on Saturday to the wine shop to buy a bottle of wine I drank at lunch at the old forge. The man in the shop was so miserable. He used to work as a waiter previously and I recognised him. He was changing the prices on the wine from the recent VAT increase on 1.08. All wine was going up a £1 he explained. He hadn't got to change the price label on the wine I wanted but refused to sell it to me at the lower advertised price despite me pointing out it was my customer right. He was so miserable and unpleasant I nearly walked out. However I paid the new price knowing I was entitled to the old price and as a matter of principal wanted to share my experience.

Great breakfast in their outside seating area which is covered.

Great selection of wines and spirits.

Not to much choice , but friendly staff , nice tasing food

Lovely shop and great wine selection, very helpful staff and friendly owner

A wonderful surprise after a delightful meal at The Old Forge next door. There was a good range of wines from around the world at reasonable prices compared to other businesses in the area. Managed to find my wife a bottle of wine which she had wanted for ages but was almost always unavailable elsewhere. Have returned a few time since and always happy with service and products

Delicious food and wine. Friendly and helpful staff.

Now taken over by Mike and brekky the food and atmosphere were great

Nice choice of wines, food good but a bit expensive

The sub-£15 wines here are desperately awful. I bought four bottles. One was a white Bordeaux at £18 which was ok. The other three were just so awful we had to pour them down the sink rather than drink them. One was a ‘16 Steps’ South Australian Chardonnay, the second a Kloovenburg South African Grenache. The last a Vega Rayo Rioja. Terrible. Be really careful here.

Ask for Iona, she'll see you right. Great selection of wines and Gin :-)

Mouth watering menu can't wait to go back to try one of everything 😀👍

Fantastic service and excellent choice of wines and spirits. A must visit if you're in the area.

This is a review for the Old Forge as the Scarlet restaurant is no more, although the excellent wine shop remains. The new ‘Old Forge’ adds another excellent restaurant in the Hayle area. We have had two lunches here as a couple and had an excellent experience on both occasions. We have had different pizzas, soups, another main course and desserts. All were of great quality with exemplary service. The coffee is great and the wine list looks good. It is open for breakfast and will open for dinner in March. It is to be highly recommended if this early experience is anything to go by.

Good good good service would recommend

Lovely lunch at the Old Forge. Friendly service and delicious food.

On arrival were sat in a lovely area with a low ceiling and a glowing log burner.This is not my first time to the eatery.The drinks were promptly taken and we were given a a local coffee and tea to drink from a pot !The breakfast was very lovely and well cooked.Poached eggs on sour dough toast with spinach, a superb baked egg dish with chorizo and home made potato hash cake with poached eggs.Superb service and well worth experience to be had.Let’s hope the new owners can keep the same standard as this is a gem in Cornwall and often we get ripped off !

Plenty of GF options. Try the hash with some bacon on the side! Nice little cabin feel with a decent selection of other deli items on sale.

First and last time to scarletsMenu was very small,but what I did order-flat bread and chips-was nice,Coffee was lovely,as were the other drinksBut we were all pretty disgusted at the fact that when we rang to enquire about taking a tiny cake with a candle in we were told that we would have to pay £10 to do so.Of all the places we have been to And have worked I have never heard of the establishment charging for you to take a cake.When I asked why I was told that because they would be missing out on a potential 7 dessert orders they would want £10...even though we were planning on ordering starters,mains,desserts and drinks (the cake was a gift cake to be taken away after).Once I explained that we were told it was ok,but out of principal we declined.To be quite honest,I’ve never heard of anyone charging for it,but £10 is appalling,secondly,if you are going to charge surly don’t say it’s because you’re going to be losing out on ordersWe were going to cancel the booking altogether but thought we would give the place a chance.But due to the lack of choice and pricing we ended up deciding not to order starters and only 3 had dessert.It was nice,but difficult to park,especially for disabled customers,and not worth the prices.

Service slow and was given coffee with cow's milk instead of oat milk as requested even tho they were told I have an intolerance to cow's milk

Popped in for takeaway pizza but ended up staying to eat in as it was so inviting and cosy looking. Food was incredible and very reasonably priced. Fantastic meal and wine and lovely, friendly service. Highly recommended.

We went here after doing some shopping at the garden centre just across the road. Great little place with quality food, a cool atmosphere with quirky music and funky art. Stunning selection of wine. It’s small and personal, but still big enough to cater for around 30 people. We got chatting with the staff who were friendly and informative yet they didn’t pester us and allowed us to have our meal in private. The food was top notch, really delicious, seriously some of the best I’ve had in a long time. We sat outside in the courtyard after eating and had drinks in the evening sun, listening to the birds. Scarlets is just opposite the estuary so many rare species to be found nearby. I was really impressed with the prices for such a high quality of food and wine. We will definitely be coming here again.

The atmosphere at Scarlet was welcoming, the service was good - we were left to our own devices and not pushed or harried in any way. The food was tasty and the wine we picked complemented what we ate really well. The menu was nicely varied offering such delights as pea and ham hock soup, halloumi fries and a variety of pizza toppings; we chose n'duja which was lovely.

Great service and top quality food, served rapidly and well cooked. Quirky but fitting decoration and style. Great range of wines available. Breakfast was delicious with some fantastic sausages! Can get busy quickly as only a small venue, parking is limited, but not far to walk from elsewhere.

Great little place with fantastic coffee and lovely pizza. Friendly staff and a cool vibe. We went there for an evening meal but went back for coffee and the breakfasts looked great

Great choice of wines and great coffee!

Despite its title, there's a lovely cafe here with wide range of drinks and selection of food.

Amazing food, lovely staff and the best coffee. Love this place!

Staff too busy talking to friends rather than customer in front of them. Some nice wines though. Reasonably prices.

We were staying local and decided to stop in here one evening for a meal, seeing as it was less than a 5 minute walk from our accommodation.While the restaurant was full, they were able to accomodate 4 adults and 2 children.We had a selection of different pizza's and some of the tapas dishes. The food was fresh and very tasty, especially the calamari and the tomato and walnut dishes.The children's food was enjoyed, although the sausage was a little spicy for the little fella.There was a great selection of wines and different ciders available, all of which were well enjoyed.However, the relaxed atmosphere and laid back service is what we really enjoyed about the evening.We also went back a couple of times for some different wines as there is a great selection on offer, along with some more unusual offeringsOverall, I highly recommend visiting for the wines, food or just a coffee

My favourite place for breakfast. Good coffee. Good choices including healthy options. They have a very nice pizza menu and tapas for lunch and evenings too. I have always had a good meal here.

We have been coming to Scarlets for some years now whenever we are in St Ives or Lelant and have always really enjoyed the food especially the delicious flatbreads. The menu has unfortunately changed and now offers a limited choice of pizzas and some tapas type dishes. We can’t comment on the pizzas as that wasn’t what we wanted (although people who did order them seemed to enjoy them) but we did enjoy a selection of the tapas dishes which were tasty but worked out a little expensive. If in the immediate area it’s still worth a visit but as so may other places do pizzas it’s probably no longer worth a special journey.

Lovely day for a visit to Scarlets, warm enough to sit outside. We shared a Vegan Platter, we are not vegan, or even vegetarian but it sounded so nice. Very tasty and filling! We didn't have wine because of driving but there is a great selection of soft drinks available. Effecient, friendly service and not expensive.

Lovely little niche boutique sampling some great wines from Europe, charcutterie, cheese and craft beer. It also has a small eating section where you can get some of the products made into pizzas and sharing dishes. Some great flavors of course, but I must admit I was hoping for a more bistro inspired menu with main some more exciting main courses. The children menu is mediocre. A great lunch and breakfast place though, and a lot of potential in these walls.

Great little restaurant with outdoor dining area. Well stocked shop with world of wines and spirits, local ales and speciality foods. Well worth a visit.

We visited this restaurant on Wednesday evening after checking open times on web, however they were closed that evening! We visited again on Friday evening and was greeted with very friendly staff who immediately accommodated us, although excellent service we were disappointed with choices in the menu as apart from seafood and a very spicy option all the pizza we’re vegetarian, we are meat eaters, we had to pay extra to have prosciutto added to a very boring margarita pizza.

Great new menu that mixes the traditional with a persian flair. The coffee is always wonderful with plenty of milk options for the fussy eaters amongst us! It would be good to see some gluten free options for bread and pizza is possible...

We had such a chilled evening on Saturday night. Amazing choice of wine - to be able to go up and choose what you fancy from the shop is great too! Vast beer and gin selection. We had a lovely dinner where we shared pizza and tapas in the cozy restaurant all washed down with a delicious bottle of wine...

Came for the art work, stayed for the carrot cake!

Visited here with my wife and parents today and had a wonderful lunch. We’ve eaten here twice before on our previous visits to Cornwall and this visit kept up the high standards from previous visits.

We arrived at Scarlets after a long walk and a recommendation from a local. Our breakfast was perfect and faultless. We will definitely return on our last day. So much choice on the menu.

I have reviewed this restaurant before and it was great

After having reserved six weeks in advance, and checked the reservation was ok a week ago, we arrived to celebrate my wife's 50th only to be sat down by a very disgruntled waitress.

This was the first time we've been for dinner.

Love this friendly restaurant, great for breakfasts and lunches, not had an evening meal there yet. They stock local wines, and produce, to purchase.

Really enjoyed the food here but also the honesty of the service. They were busy and told us when we arrived that they wouldn’t be able to put our order through until the kitchen had caught up. This was absolutely fine - we were happy to wait because we had been told it was happening! That said, our food arrived very promptly after ordering and we thoroughly enjoyed all of it. We loved the flatbreads and the chips were to die for! Fabulous selection of drinks to choose from too. We will definitely return soon as I really want to try the cheese sharing board (although whether I’ll actually share it remains to be seen...!) and sample from the gin menu too!

Excellent tea and coffee ☕ ☕ good service, gorgeous log burner.....what's not to like?

Popped in here initially for a cuppa, but discovered they do a whole lot more. Food till 3. Naturally wines of course, but They do everything!!! Gin, Whiskey, Beer, Cakes. Wow what a find. Local artists also display here, (a mini-tate).

A real find. Desperate for a cup of coffee and wanting to avoid the chains we caught a glimpse of this place off the roundabout and dropped in. A really relaxed and comfortable vibe, good coffee, lovely service and some interesting wines, spirits and deli selection. Could have spent much longer here if it wasn't for the fact they had just stopped serving hot food.

Lovely find! We had a lazy Saturday breakfast here. Dog friendly such a relaxed atmosphere. Just loveky thank you.

Best carrott cake we've ever tasted and great coffee

Really good location and lovely restaurant that we've visited many times. Everything is great other than the service. No greeting on entering, no smile no interaction at all. Other staff are pleasant just not sure why they think service isn't important please sort it out.

Best breakfast I have had anywhere in the world! What do you do to the tomato and mushroom? They are normally a side show for the bacon and sausage but not at Scarlett’s!

Came here on recommendation. Great little wine shop though we came for lunch. Had the flatbreads, one with chicken, other with falafel, and two salads. All very tasty - a perfect lunch. Good value. Nice atmosphere and relaxed friendly staff. Good low level background music - Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell sort of stuff, though this probably changes depending on the clientele! We were driving but we parked in the station carpark across the way so I presume you could have a good lunch with a bottle of wine here and use the train from St Ives? Whatever you do, I'm sure you'll enjoy it!

Lovely friendly place, good gin and wine. Tasty food. Informal and chilled.

We go here every holiday and always amazed it’s not more busy !! It’s a bit out of the way and you don’t drive past it but it’s well worth hunting down.

Great coffee, great Turkish bread, great wine, great food. Visit Cornwall every year, always fit in a visit to Scarlet's

Fabulous breakfast and excellent coffee

Really good restaurant and shop

Da fuori un classico pub, ma una piacevolissima sorpresa, cucina di zona con influenza mediterranea.

As the gateway restaurant to St Ives I’d have liked a greater welcome. Eastern themed menu seems a little strange in this location for St Ives but delicious all the same. There’s a fine array of interesting wines and gins, and local interesting deli products. Coffee was promising but bitter

We went here for breakfast and my fiancé ordered the big breakfast which was expensive at around £10. I had poached eggs on toast with mushrooms. We waited about 25 minutes for our food. Then my fiancé breakfast came out totally over cooked. Burnt sausages, rock hard bacon, over cooked eggs and even the mushroom and tomato looked dehydrated and dead. Told the waitress and all I got was ‘oh that’s not good ‘ well no it’s not. Saw other people leaving theirs too. Disappointed

Excellent menu, we enjoyed squid, halloumi fries, mussels in a fantastic spicy sauce, and various other small plates. Lovely flavours and friendly, attentive service. Recommended.

Had dinner here, lovely food, warm beetroot salad with feta, oven baked cod with lentils and white beans, lamb chops with a mint sauce dressing, chocolate pudding with ice cream. Lovely food. I don't drink anymore but the wines look amazing and the choice of gin also looks very interesting. Would recommend. Very small so would recommend booking. Dog friendly.

Stopped to meet an old friend who was late showing. But the cafe was well worth the stop. Easy to miss just off the main road to St Ives it’s both a wine shop and a cafe. The menu is not the standard tourist fare which is really refreshing / great (after 4 day’s in Cornwall it seems all the other local chefs have a similar idea of what to offer visitors) and my meal here was really tasty. Service was a little self centred for my taste but that could have been attributable to my poor humour on the day rather than a true reflection. So before you dive into the delights of St Ives stop here!

Right off the Beaton track, an exclusive feel, great in the heat, loads of great wines. Blink and you’ll miss it, see it and you’ll definitely go there again!

I visited Scarlett's for the first time today for a leisurely holiday brunch. There was a vegan (me), a vegetarian and two meat eaters. We were all catered for with fabulous cooked breakfasts. The vegan breakfast was perfect- home-made baked beans, a mouth watering hash brown....it definitely hit the spot! They also had oat milk for coffees which gets them extra bonus points from me. The waitress was friendly and attentive. There was a cosy interior or a sunny outdoor area to choose from I will definitely be returning to try the rest of their vegan menu.

Lovely lunch and great service! Thank you

This is a surprising little find tucked away on the way from the train station to the beach (if you follow the main road). Food and drinks were spot on and they're welcoming to dogs as well.

Very poor service, felt a little forgotten. Music coming from the kitchen was incredibly loud and full of base, wasn’t a nice dining environment with the conflict of noise of the main restaurants music!

Really loved the different choice of Mediterranean dishes here, very tasty. Of course the wine is really good to. Would recommend a visit, it's easy to drive by and not realise this little gem is there. Excellent deli as well.

Really lovely staff, really love coffee and a nice break from the sunshine in the cool building. And they're vegan friendly as they are one if the few places that offer Oatly. 👌

great coffee and freshly cooked food Friendly helpful staff

I love the formula of wine cellar with the possibility of drinking a wine and having nice food. You can chose the bottle from the shelf.

We regularly go to St Ives and nearly always visit Scarlet Wines, both to eat and buy from the deli. This time we took our small grand children. The food was delicious but it’s odd that they offer a children’s menu with no children’s cutlery. We were served by two different waiters, one, with a beard and ponytail who was absolutely charming and who couldn’t have been more helpful.

I've eaten here several times now. Highly recommended

We went for lunch, ordered some excellent wine and ginger beer, then had the venison with mushroom 'ragout' and the cod with chorizo 'stew' - both were truly scrumptious and very reasonably priced we also had a tomato salad and a beetroot salad - simply excellent - give it a go. We looked round and nearly everyones plates or sharing boards were empty - so looks like everyone else enjoyed their food too. Thank you.

Fantastic place. Wonderful meal. Great service. Very friendly and relaxed

A visit to Scarlet Wines for dinner is something my wife and I look forward to every time we stay in the St Ives area. We ate there again last Friday (23rd March 2018) and had a fantastic meal. We ordered both the seafood platter and the meat platter, with a side order of halloumi fries. The food was fantastic and beautifully presented, lots of different colours and flavours. We couldn't decide what red wine to choose so the waitress gave us a little taster of the four reds on the wine list. They were all good and we would have been happy with any of them, but if we hadn't, Scarlet have a large selection of many other wines available. Our "pudding compartments" ensured we still had room for deserts and we chose the Eton mess and chocolate pudding -both were excellent. We can't wait to come back !

Cool shop and some great local Gin

We had dinner here a couple of nights ago and came back for breakfast yesterday. The flatbreads are delicious and make a perfect meal on their own although there are sides to choose from if you are really hungry. Also an excellent choice of wines as you can choose from the well stocked deli area and just pay corkage. Breakfast set us up for the long drive home. The bacon and sausages were high quality the eggs perfectly poached. Not so keen on the homemade baked beans as ashamed to say we prefer Heinz! Warm and welcoming with yummy food. What more can you ask for?

excellent baked eggs. looks like a fantastic array of spirits. unfortunately was too early in the morning!

Best breakfast spot around! Great staff friendly service and good coffee. I have never been disappointed at Scarlet Wines, I've never had a bad meal here. The Avocado Salsa with poached eggs was very tasty and the Halloumi Chips on the lunch menu are amazing! Plus they have one of the best booze selections around too.

There were four of us and so we shared all the ‘small plates’ and they were all excellent. We also had the lamb tagine and an extra plate of duck salad. Olive oil and balsamic were up there with the best. The halloumi dish too is worth singling out. Wines were also noteworthy especially the Rasteau at £14 and also a Sancerre at about £12 (there is then a reasonable £5 corkage charge on top) - really good value.

Great service and food was welcomed nicely and managed to have a business meeting.

Very cosy and good food with good service.

We visited here whilst staying at my in laws, and had been recommended by family and friends.

A couple of steep bits on the cliff path, a stroll through the sand dunes.... And you alight on this gem of a place. Go as a group, order one of everything on the menu and stay a few hours selecting wine from the shop to go with the delicious food. I've been here a few times now and it's never failed to please me or my friends. Looking forward to my next visit.

Brilliant food and brilliant service. A wonderful little wine bar and restaurant with a tapas-esque menu. I had the lamb koftas with a side of sprouts and chorizo and it was delicious (and I don't even like sprouts!!!).

Good selection of wine to buy or consume on the premises. Very popular with the locals.

Friendly staff, really good coffee. Walked from st Ives for lunch and thoroughly enjoyed the crab fritter flatbreads. Will return. There is parking if you are driving and a deli. Nice space and good music.

Great coffee, lovely cinnamon toast and a great deli to tempt you

Fantastic shop, lots of wines from off the beaten track. Friendly, knowledgeable people. We always pop in when we're down here but this is the first time we've eaten here - really excellent Mediterranean food too.

Great tasting food, pleasant surroundings, excellent service. A really good evening.

My wife and myself went to Scarlet Wines restaurant to celebrate a very significant anniversary whilst holidaying with friends who live nearby to to the venue. What a delightful little place! The food was simply delicious and the ambience and service were perfect. Our whole party of four discerning old codgers rated the whole evening 10 out of 10. We will all most certainly will be going again..

Visited this restaurant whilst on holiday in Cornwall , just on the off chance , didn't even realise it was a restaurant, as it is also an off-licence selling wine , luckily got a table , the food was not your normal everyday menu , a choice of fish , lamb , good vegetarian choices a choice of flatbreads ,I suppose it was crossed with a touch of English , Spanish , Italian !! Well what a liucky find the food was amazing , so tasty full of flavour , so well cooked , great wine , and great service , only downside is , it's so far from

Good food and coffee (not tried the wine yet!) I am just a bit peeved by the pricing (expensive) and lack of parking.

Good food, consistently served as this was our 4th visit.

Had a WONDERFUL meal here with friends for my Birthday: really original menu, very friendly service, and excellent quality in lovely surroundings. Highly recommended.