A peaceful & tranquil gem of a hotel in St Mawes with charming staff and a most imaginative and excellent chef providing outstanding food.
We also had a birthday weekend there and felt very cossetted indeed
We look forward to further visits

It makes sense when you live in an area to make a day out like a holiday, so venture to the Fal estuary and make a little adventure of crossing on the wonderful King Harry ferry. Almost as soon as you go round the wiggly bend and see the ferry, you feel like you are on holiday. A short but satisfying journey across the water and wend your way to St.Mawes, 10 - 15 minutes drive after disembarking. Turn right past the Rising Sun Pub and park the car and wonder back to the Idle Rock. The dining room with its panoramic views over the harbour and estuary is like being on board ship, most tables reveal this beautiful view. You get a lovely friendly welcome and a great choice on the menu. As we were just out for lunch, we decided to plump for a sandwich, well the care and attention and quality of this sandwich was brilliant, lovely soft fresh bread, with sumptuous filling and a gorgeous side salad with a sweet honey flavoured dressing....when is a sandwich not a sandwich, when you put the ingredients of the Idle Rocks location, together with friendly service and a properly prepared sandwich. Thank you

My Husband and I stayed at the IdIe Rocks Hotel for a couple of nights to celebrate our Birthdays and anniversary, the food was lovely and the staff very friendly nothing was too much trouble, our room was just what we wanted and the view perfect and on the evening
when the tide was in and the waves splashed up the wall,well you had to be their to appreciate it.
Will definitely go again.

Our local radio station have a promotion "Pay £25.00 get £50 in food and drink" at certain restaurants in the area.There are usually 50 or 60 vouchers available from 9.0 clock on a Thursday morning so you have to log in and buy a voucher on line. Some popular eateries are sold out in minutes and some languish for weeks on end with very few vouchers purchased.The Idle Rocks had not sold many vouchers so I was a little worried I had many a mistake. Previous reviews on here had not been that great and the review the day before we going sounded terrible. The meal was for my wife's birthday and when she read the review was ready to cancel and go elsewhere. We persisted and went along and my son also came along. The menu on line looked very good so we went for it. The position over looking St Mawes harbour is great but being a winter evening we missed the view. Our waitress who was Spanish from Madrid was very pleasant and we had banter in my limited Spanish to break the ice. We opted for the 3 courses but without wine when we saw the price list.
Our food was very well presented and all 3 courses were very nice but such small portions I thought McDonalds on the way home was going to be needed. My main course was Brill which is a flatfish like a plaice came and the piece of fish was around 2 inches square sat on a square of other veg. My son and wife fared a little better with the fish pie which looked more inviting and certainly more filling. Over all it was a good night, the food was good,well prepared and tasty and our waitress was very nice and attentative. The bill without coffee was a little over £136.00 for the 3 of us.Add on the £25 already paid for the voucher less £50.00 it was still and expensive but nice. Good value No.