We’ve a green light to open in Cornwall. We’ll spend the next week or two reviewing exactly how we’ll operate in a way that is safe for you, safe for our teams and sensitive to our neighbours. We'll announce our dates publicly on Monday, but what we can say now to you as a Friend of EDS is that we’ll open up our bedrooms on Tuesday 21 July and we can start taking new bookings for both The Gurnard’s Head and The Old Coastguard.
Stay tuned for news (around 6 July) on when and where you can book to eat or drink with us. We’d guess our opening will be a few days prior to opening the bedrooms, but we want to get our approach right first so that our teams build confidence in how to look after you in the right way.
We hope you will support us in our re-opening but completely understand that many will be happy to take their time. There really is no hurry.
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Our bedrooms can now be booked for the summer and autumn (and beyond). We’ll open from Tuesday 21 July at both The Gurnard’s Head and The Old Coastguard. All we ask for is a minimum three night stay until the end of October. This will just allow us to minimise bottlenecks when you check in or out, will smooth the general experience for both guests and our team and minimise disruption for our neighbours.
As a Friend of EDS, you can enquire about availability now, by email generally (click below) but we will try to have the phones manned between 10am – 4pm from Saturday. We will aim to reply rapidly to emails. Remember that we don’t have an online booking system and you can only book through us.
If you’d like to know more about what we will be doing to ensure you’re staying in a safe place, we’ll be producing a set of guiding principles over the next week or so. If you book to stay or eat with us, they will come to you with your confirmation. If you’re thinking of staying with us, we will post it to our website and social media feeds.
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We’ll be spending the next few days working out what it takes to run a restaurant in a Covid world. We’ve always spaced our tables well, in the belief you’ve chosen to dine with your own husband, wife or other, not someone else’s, so distancing guests plays to our strength. And we’ve pretty good gardens. Our task is to balance maintaining a safe environment with making sure you enjoy eating out. Babies and bathwater and all that. It’s an interesting challenge.
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In another world, we were due to open on 20 March at The Old Coastguard after the fire last June. We’d just hung the dining room with a series of new paintings by artists, some of whom we’ve shown before, some of whom are new to us, including Marianne Nicholls. And, at The Gurnard’s Head, we’ve continued our Artist of the Month features right through closure, shining a light on some of our favourite artists at a time when none of them will have found it easy to sell their work. If you visit this summer, please do take a moment to look at their work.
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The First Minister in Wales is choosing to run to a different timetable from England. We hope though that he will see a way to allow us to open at The Felin Fach Griffin during the summer. The good news is that everything we learn in Cornwall can be rolled out very quickly in Wales so as soon as we have a green light, we’ll be opening up. In the meantime, we’ll continue to hold back on bookings unless you’re looking to stay in the Autumn. You can email us here.
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