Great Western Surf Café

Great Western Surf Café in Newquay is a laid-back surf café with big ocean views and a menu made for hungry beach days. Dogs are welcome inside, so you can bring your best mate along for the refuel part of the plan. Expect casual, freshly prepared food that suits sand-between-your-toes living, plus a drinks list that keeps the day ticking along nicely.

Open daily for drinks from 11am to 8pm and food from 11:30am to 7pm when in season (the café closes for winter and reopens for Easter). It's a great spot for an easy lunch, a post-swim warm-up, or a slow sit while you watch the waves do their thing. Keep it surf-café polite: paws down, no helping with other tables' snacks, and please avoid the classic wet-dog shake indoors.

Whether you're eating inside or heading down to the sand after, it's the kind of place that understands beach days come with dogs, salt air and pleasantly tired humans looking for somewhere easy to land.