After an online interlude last year, our much-loved spring beer festival is back this March! We're looking forward to hosting The Dark, The Light & The Saison over three days beginning on Friday 4th March. We will have beer tastings, live music and great pub food...
Every year, we chose a charity partner, raising funds for causes close to our hearts with a varied programme of fun, community events hosted in the pub. Our chosen charity partner for 2022 is The Mermaid Centre Fund, in aid of the Royal Cornwall Hospitals...
It’s a measure of how seriously we take our food, and our local sourcing, that we’ve been loyal customers of Philip Warren Butchers for many years. Based in Launceston, North Cornwall, Philip Warren are the go-to butchers for Michelin starred restaurants and 5* hotels across...
Our two pubs (The Driftwood Spars and The Miner’s Arms) have both, with regret, decided not to host the Parish Bonfire Nights once again this year. We’re sorry to be the bearers of bad news and that many people desperately want things to get back...
Cornwall food industry insiders will know that there’s only one place to get your hands on all the best local cheeses, and that’s Thomas Hanson’s famous cheese van! Each week we rub our hands together in glee when the cheese-mobile arrives, knowing that inside is...
Come and join our fantastic team in St. Agnes. We have opportunities open for: Front of House staff Senior CDP/Junior Sous chefReceptionist Bar staff with cellar experience You’ll join a busy and motivated team working the restaurant and pub bars. Gain experience delivering functions, weddings, parties and gigs! You’ll also...
At the Drifty, we pride ourselves on handpicking our local suppliers. As we’re only a few minutes walk from the beach in the glorious Trevaunance Cove, we knew our ice cream would have to be something special to satisfy tired walkers, hungry holiday makers and famished...
In the next of our series of blogs focusing on the hand-picked local suppliers we love working with here at The Drifty, we chatted to Louisa Fitzpatrick of Old Chapel Cellars – a small, Truro-based wine merchant with a knowledgeable team and a personal approach...
After a year of cancelled events and a decimated live music scene, we've made reinstating music sessions a major priority in our reopening plans! In a bid to fill the 2021 diaries of music fans - and support local artists - we've scheduled a packed programme...
Every village pub worth its salt should have an official illustrator, don’t you think?! Well, we’ve always done things a little differently here at The Driftwood Spars, just ask the penguins… Over the last 15 years, the highs and lows of life in Trevaunance Cove have...