Samphire Restaurant & Bar

Walked by after 9PM/​21, everything else was closed so we decided to try it. I give them an extra star for being open past 21 and two stars for the menu, it had a lot of variants. I ordered the stake filet (£24) pretty pricy, and an okay stake, I got very little chips. When I asked for ketchup the waiter gave me the ketchup cup she gave another person from my party and gave me a spoon and says to get some before she gave it back to him. I also witnessed for the first time a waiter drink the leftovers of the wine glass she got from another table. All in all it felt like a regular restaurant trying too hard to be an expensive one. It want bad, but too pricy thus only three stars.

We happened to walk by this place one night, and as they had a tasting menu, we decided to come back and give it a try. So we booked a table and decided to give it a whirl on a Monday night. The tasting menu was five courses for £25 (£45 with wine pairings). The other half was a bit dubious about the prices, and thought it just couldn’t be good given the prices on the menu.
Well, we get in and decide to start with a Bellini (which turned out to be strawberry and VERY tasty). We got the tasting menu with wine pairings. The first course was sweet and sour pig cheeks with udon noodles. It was absolutely brilliant. Everything was tasty, and we were pleasantly surprised. The next course was a mackerel fillet with a smoked mackerel potato cake. The third course was a hake fillet with crab bisque and a crab and ginger wonton. Amazing. Absolutely amazing. The fish was cooked well, the bisque was rich and creamy, and the wonton was crispy and delicious. The fourth course was chicken wrapped in spinach and parma ham with sweet potato tagliatelle and chorizo. I expected this course to be dry and overcooked (because it’s so easy to do that with chicken), but instead it was perfectly cooked and everything was magnificent. One of the better chicken dishes I’ve had in awhile. Finally we had a deconstructed cheesecake with strawberries and strawberry sorbet. Very good! The wine was also good, but the pairings didn’t necessarily make sense (but for £45 for the tasting and wine pairings, I’m not really complaining that much).
We decided to end the evening by ordering cheese and port. The cheeses were great. We were honestly shocked and surprised at how amazing the meal turned out. The other half even commented to the waitress that the food was great, and that he was surprised that the tasting menu wasn’t more expensive. When we’re back in the area, I’m sure we’ll go back in. There were things on the menu that looked amazing that we didn’t get to try because they weren’t on the tasting menu.
I can’t recommend this place enough. If you’re in Falmouth, you should definitely go here.

my wife and i enjoyed a really nice meal i had the two kinds of duck dish which was delicious and my wife had the hake. We thought that the service was very good but did feel slightly rushed as we came to the end of our meal.
we spent 5 days in Falmouth and really only went to samphire because Clarks next door was fully booked we much preferred clarks but that is just our personal choice.

This place is a little posh, and therefore expensive, for my taste, but the willingness of the waitress to keep smiling and accommodate the requests of the fussy eater in our party was commendable and worth a mention.