Turks Head in Cornwall, Isles of Scilly - Phone Number, Reservations, Reviews

Best pub in the world. I defy anyone to find a more hospitable pub with such a beautiful view. It's fabulous

Maybe my favourite pub in the U.K.

Might be the best pub in the UK.

Not particularly friendly staff/owner and quite pricey but a lovely spot

A great place to stop for a beer & pasty, will hopefully be back next year 🤗

THE VIEW WAS WONDERFUL AS WAS THE BEER. THE BIG DISAPPOINTMENT WERE THE EXPENSIVE CRAB ROLLS. IT WAS GOING TO BE A HOLIDAY TREAT I THOUGHT. WELL THERE WAS SO MUCH OTHER STUFF MIXED IN WITH THE CRAB THAT YOU COULD HARDLY TASTE IT. I DO KNOW THAT CRAB MEAT HAS RISEN IN PRICE BUT THESE WERE NOT WORTHY OF WHAT THEY CHARGED.

Great pub. The food is decent, the puddings sublime. Note there is a few hours in the afternoon after lunch and before dinner that you cant get food.

Very welcoming. Good service. Lovely food and a great view.

Great pub, looking out over the sea, option to eat indoors or outdoors. Great views, great food! 100% worth a visit

It was a lovely place to enjoy a bottle of wine. A very friendly bar man who wished me a happy birthday.

Unfriendly staff, couldn’t crack a smile, very expensive .. £26 for 4 drinks … wouldn’t return but didn’t really have a lot of choice as on island trip …

Great little pub tucked away on St Agnes just a stone's throw from the slipway where the boats come in. The food is good and reasonably priced and there's a supper boat that comes over from St Mary's several nights a week in summer. Revisited the Turks Head this summer (2022) and the experience was better than ever. Having come over on the supper boat from St Mary's with quite a few others there was a short wait to order at the bar but the staff soon got through the queue and the food came quickly. We sat at one of the many outside tables and found the food to be excellent - going far beyond the standard of fare that could be expected at a pub on a small island so far off the beaten track. Credit is due to all at the Turks Head for getting things back to their normal high standard of service and quality after the pandemic. Well done guys and thanks for a great evening ! Returned to the Turk's Head again in 2024 - menu more condensed than previous but just as good. We had the Cumberland Sausage with mash, wilted greens and gravy plus the fish pie. Both were excellent. Credit is due to the owners for offering great food and service in such a remote (and beautiful) location.

It was very nice to sit outside and soak up the good weather 👌

Understand that this establishment is currently up for sale, therefore there is a reflection on the above facilities where majority of public houses are struggling. The pub is still doing a fair bit of service as far as drinks are concerned where passengers await return ferry to St Mary's The toilet facilities are not the best.

Lovely food, amazing view sitting outside, friendly service

Got to be one of the worst places I’ve ever been to😬 The owners are rude & arrogant, food overpriced and at best average No wonder it’s up for sale

Such a perfect and peaceful spot to have lunch or just a drink. I have the crab roll (gf bread roll option) with a great view. The staff were all friendly and quick service.

I had the lunch time ham and eggs and it was great. They stopped serving at 2.30 but they still had a choice of flapjacks, brownies and carrot cake in lieu of pudding. Great choice of four real ales too.

The best pub with the greatest views. Such special memories of coming here after our engagement on Bryher celebrated on st Agnes. We brought the whole family back and the food and views did not disappoint. We had vegetarian gnocchi, steak and desserts with local ales and famous Turks head special hot chocolate and brandy.

The southernmost pub in England is iconic! Good selection of food and lovely locals. Thanks for the frequent seats by the window overlooking the bay. It was a pleasure!!!

Sat outside on the deck. Great views and a lovely pint on a balmy afternoon. Who could ask for more?

Great pub on St Agnes - i had spent the day on Gugh and St Agnes and had walk around - then stayed for the supper night which meant getting a special boat back at 9 pm - ordered a table and arrived and put in an order before the boat arrived - great to be able to sit outside and have a good view of the Harbour food and service were excellent the pub is right by the jetty so you can see the boat arriving

Location Location Location. On a blue sky day, with a pint of Rattler, you're not far from paradise.

Disappointing all round. Menu is very basic, chips with everything and wildly erratic pricing. Crab sandwich - 17.50, Soup looked the best value at £10. Mackerel pate £10 was huge scoop, with not enough crostini to balance the plate. Ploughman's £17.50 was four huge slices of bread, tiny teaspoon of piccalilli, hunk of cheddar, quarter of a pork pie, single slice of ham, one cherry tomato with cucumber and some lettuce leaves masquerading as a dressed side salad in a small pot. I know everything has to be shipped in to this small island, but it felt lacklustre. Service was OK, but really slow for food that doesn't need much prepping. Maybe the dinner options are more imaginative, but lunch was a disappointing and expensive experience.

Impossible not to love this place especially on a sunny day. Perfect to sit above the quay, eat good pub grub, with excellent service and wait for the ferry to arrive.

One of the best views on Scilly

We were almost the first people in for lunch. Service was good. The meal was nice. The only place to eat on St Agnes and we were not disappointed.

Had a quick pint before the boat arrived for St Mary's. Staff were very friendly and the beer was great

Beautifully positioned pub with very friendly service. Great fish and chips. Thanks!

Friendly staff, always interesting music but the location and views are stunning. The interior is full of interesting stuff. A must if you visit IoS.

It's the only pub on the island, but well worth a visit. Great real ales and good food

Fabulous fish and chip supper served by friendly staff. Really enjoyed our visit this evening. Our food was served promptly despite being a busy service and the food was really hot. Excellent last meal end to our holiday - thank you!

The most south westerly pub in England, on St Agnes, a spectacular view from the garden looking back towards St Mary's. An excellent place for a pint or two when waiting for the ferry. The food looked lovely and service was very quick. On a truly beautiful island 🏝

Friendly service with s selection of ales lagers and ciders and a dipet view over the harbour

Stunning views out over the sea whilst enjoying a cold beer followed buy an excellent meal. Friendly service, one of my favourite places ever, thank you!

Only had drinks here, but loved the setting. Spent a whole afternoon making friends and enjoying the beautiful view. Only downside was the toilets needed an overhaul .

The menu choices for all three of us were not available by the time we ordered (1pm) on the day of our visit. Cheese ploughman’s consisted of a lot of bread and cheese and a tiny amount of piccalilli and salad. Too much mackerel pate in comparison to the small crisp toasts it was served with. Sticky toffee pudding was fabulous and we enjoyed the flirty fries. Idyllic location and potential to be excellent but disappointing visit overall.

Fantastic location, great service and very welcoming. You'd struggle to find a pub with a better view.......it's stunning 😍

Owners Simon and Ange are incredibly rude and abrupt to paying customers . You really let this wonderful island down. Very disappointing visit.

Fabulous views, friendly service and lovely food. We went over on the evening boat from St Mary’s and sat outside for a meal enjoying the views. I had called earlier in the day to see if there would be tables available and had two call backs from the pub to apologise there would be no inside tables (outside was fine by us!). I don’t understand the few bad reviews below - this was not our experience at all nor my friends who went there for drinks a couple of days later. Thoroughly recommend and hope to go back next year!

if I could give it a lower rating I would, I never review places negatively but feel I need to warn people here. There’s very few vegetarian/vegan option (don’t even have non-dairy milks), the people who seemed to own the pub were so unfriendly and rude to the other customers around us and on top of all of this it’s insanely priced for tiny portions! If you go to st Agnes (beautiful island) either go up to the coastguards cafe or bring a packed lunch :)

Fantastic day at St Agnes fete.

We had seen the pub on line and booked a table when we did a boat trip from St Mary's. the pub is an old style building with loads of character. our table was inside and quite close to the bar. the staff were extremely friendly and showed us to our table upon arrival. You order your food and drinks from the bar and set up a tab. The food was amazing, both my wife and I agreed it was probably the tastiest lamb we had ever tasted. The local beer, made by St Austell's brewery was also very good. An excellent experience and should we return to the Scilly Isles will definitely go back. Thank you for your hospitality.

6pm boat from St Marys, we were a group of 15, and had pre booked a table. Extremely busy on arrival, long queue for food and drink. We were told where our table was, but then we found out that we had to queue up for both drinks and food, this took a while as there was only 2 people behind the bar, so we asked the owner if we could write our order down and pass it to him, and pay after our meal, he agreed to this, which meant that we didn't have to wait in the queue, and our food all came out together. The food was very good, especially the fish pie and chocolate brownies. Perhaps if taking a booking fir a large table, a menu could be emailed, and then returned with everyone's selection, to help cut the time down. Just enough time to get the boat back to St Marys.

Didn't eat - but lovely pub in ideal location. Good Turk's ale.

Lovely pub with glorious views across the isles of Scilly and Atlantic ocean

Didn't get chance to eat unfortunately, but the bar service was excellent and the range of drinks available was very good

We had a fab meal here on an evening visit to the island. My partner said the burger is one of the best he’s ever had! Lovely atmosphere, friendly staff, great food and good beer. Thank you.

The most amazing crab sandwiches. The bread was so fresh and heaps of crab filling. A nice way to end our trip to Tresco.

Visited on day trip to St Agnes. Traditional pub with friendly staff in great location with outside seating with a great view for good weather. Just had a light lunch and a pint but really good food.

Lovely food, Sea Fury & Pimms after very interesting walk. Wonderful view! Very relaxed pub with great, attentative staff.

Great spot not far from quay, so an ideal spot to wait for the boat to come in. Olde Worlde pub with outdoor seating to soak up the sun with a long cool drink. Does serve food but didn't partake so can't comment. Friendly staff.

Told off for feeding our grandchildren our food even though we bought 4 beers and had bought 4 coffees earlier. Weren’t even sitting in their garden. Will not be back.

Told off for feeding a snack to our grandchildren even though we bought 4 beers and were sitting on a grassy area away from the beer garden. Felt like cash cows only welcome if we were spending more money with them. Intended to spend £££ on lunch there this week but they have lost a potential customer. The Atlantic will get our custom instead.

Owner of the place is rude, food is way overpriced. Would not recommend. Next time we’ll be bringing a packed lunch and eating on the key!

Very disappointing having known this pub in the past. Idyllic situation above the harbour and friendly waiting staff. BUT after an extremely expensive, Crab (delicious but very small roll) £15 each; (we live in Cornwall so know about the going rate!) and a Beer over £5/ pint. I asked for some drinking water for my dog as he had finished what I had brought with me. A curt reply from whom I was told was the owner said that was not possible and to go to the Public Conveniences nearby. He insisted when I asked that this would be drinking water. However there was a large notice there on the wall stating "This water is UNSUITABLE for drinking". Fortunately the ferry shortly arrived and we were soon back at our hotel on St Marys where the staff immediatley produced a large bowl of fresh cold water much to our dogs delight!

Take the supper boat over to the Turks head

What's not to like. Great service, good beer and a generous bowl of chips. Amazing location The view across the harbour is wonderful, watching the comings and goings of visitors.

Fine little place in a marvellous location.

Great food and fantastic location couldn't fault it

Went there for lunch. It was busy but the staff were working incredibly hard to provide what turned out to be an amazing very friendly service providing excellent food in quick time. Well done and thankyou.

Must be one of the most scenic locations in UK overlloking the small harbour. Excellent food and real ales.

Amazing view, lovely traditional pub.

The best fish and chips. Eaten in a lovely garden with the best view overlooking the sea

Love this pub. Great history. Another Scilly pub with amazing views over lovely blue waters. Turks Head beer is very good.

We had a lovely fish n chips here.

Very friendly pub with good beers.

Excellent food and a good welcome.The Guinness was also excellent. Lots of places to sit outside and enjoy the view also plenty of seating inside.The perfect place to end your day on this beautiful island.

Didn't really expect to find a pub on St Agnes, very welcome!!

Friendly welcoming staff. Good selection of food and drink. Well worth a visit, highly recommended.

Very friendly attentive landlord, we only stopped for a drink, but it was a place to wait for the boat back to St. Mary's. Seemed very popular and was full of quirky oddments. Worth a visit.

Stunning location on St Agnes. Lovely staff and absolutely fantastic food.

A proper coastal pub with unbeatable sea views, a great range of drinks, nice food and very welcoming and friendly owners. A lovely and unique place to hang out.

Pub on the Isles of Scilly. Lovely atmosphere, great food. Beautiful place to be

Order your pasties as you leave the boat, and then they are freshly baked for you. Delicious.

Wonderful place to sit and view the turquoise sea and islands

After a walk around the island we had a drink here and it's a friendly country pub. Very nice

Great pub, location unbeatable. Excellent beer.

Hot chocolate and brandy still excellent as is the standard of food and service.

Lovely, offshore - hurrah! Really nice staff, pleasure to drink there! 🍺😂

Good service, friendly bar staff and gorgeous view

Sailed from Scotland to the Scilly isles. Great to find such a lovely pub waiting for us. Great staff, food and excellent range of drinks.

Special: hot chocolate with St Agnes Brandy

Arguably the best view from a pub across all of the islands! Plenty of outside tables plus a beautiful garden if ypu want to get put of the breeze. Fantastic choice of ales and ciders and menu which sounded fantastic. You can sit and watch the sea lap at the little beach below. Plenty of birds and wildlife about! Staff ate very friendly and happy to let you try the ales. You are a stones throw from where the boat drops you and picks up so what a fab way to sit and wait for your boat home!

Good selection of drinks. Good food if you are hungry or small starters will do to give you room for an ice cream later on the walk around the beautiful St Agnes isle & if the tide allows you you can walk to Gugh too😃 The views are beautiful from the tables outside, sorry I forgot to take The Turks Head pub pictures! The hummus was very good, healthy option with fresh vegetables. Tried the mackerel pate & was very tasty too!

Great beer with lovely views to enjoy while eating or enjoying a drink

Great pub on the island of St Agnes. Situated right by the jetty, making it an excellent place to take a drink whilst waiting for your boat, or on a night when there's live music. The food is good too. Don't miss out, have a great time just as we did.

You have to go there on Wednesday evening when the women's gig rowing race finishes: atmosphere guaranteed...

Very friendly staff, terrific location and great food!

Great food, friendly staff. Lovely atmosphere. Five stars before you look at the view which is just unbelievable on a sunny day.

Stunning views from a lovely outdoor terrace, with plenty of seats. Nice staff, bit of a queue to order but were short-staffed that day - food came out quickly anyway. Expensive by mainland standards, but decent quality food, and it's the only pub on a very small island, so understandable.

We've been visiting since 2000 and the pub is unparalleled in views and situation, plain but pleasant food (not much for those that don't fancy bread or chips however). Excellent beer and cider too.

Great pub, great views, great location, and a really fun collection of people inside. The food we had was always good quality - I would highly recommend booking a table in advance for dinner.

Superbly isolated spot that's only a short ferry passage from St Mary's. Friendly staff, good beer and tasty food. Great value!

Garden with the best views in England.

Lovely lunch outside admiring the views. Yummy crab sandwiches!

We went over to St Agnes on the sunset cruise from St Mary's and i had my birthday 🎂 meal there, it was lovely food and the chocolate 🍫 brownie was amazing but I do recommend ringing first and booking a table as it's quite busy when everyone offloads from the boat 🚢 x

A lovely little pub on St Agnes, a must visit while on the lsland.

Nice panorama terras. Expensive compared to other pubs on the islands.

An exceptional welcome from a great team with good choices of drinks and food. We preordered the cornish pasties to return to after a walk around the Isle. Fab