World leaders will feast on some of Cornwall’s finest food and soak up some of the county’s culture during the G7 summit.
The weekend of meetings will see the leaders of the UK, US, Canada, Japan, France, Germany and Italy descend on Carbis Bay near St Ives to discuss global issues, including climate change, trade and recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.
Outside of the high-pressure discussions, they will also get the chance to sample some of the region's delicacies.
Tonight the leaders will travel to the Eden Project for a lavish dinner, where they will be served fish caught off the Cornish coast and cooked by Emily Scott, chef at the Watergate Bay hotel near Newquay.
The menu for Friday night is:
- Starter: Spiced melon, gazpacho, coconut, high note herbs
- Main: Turbot roasted on the bone with Cornish new potatoes and wild garlic pesto with greens from the local Padstow kitchen gardens
- Cornish cheese course: Gouda, Cornish yarg, helford blue
- Dessert: English strawberry pavlova
- Petit fours: Clotted cream fudge, mini clotted cream ice cream cone with chocolate earl grey truffles
Saturday night’s dinner will be a less formal affair, with the leaders tucking into a barbecue on the beach in Carbis Bay cooked by Simon Stallard, from the Hidden Hut in Portscatho.
The visiting leaders will also be treated to a flypast by the Red Arrows.
The menu for Saturday night is:
- Canapes including: Sparkling scallops, Curgurrell crab claws and Portscatho mackerel
- Main: Seared and smokey Moorland sirloin, Newlyn lobster and scorched leeks served with sides of layered Cornish potato chips, St Just purple sprouting broccoli and salt-baked beetroot
- Dessert: Beach Hut Sundae
Afterwards, the leaders will also be able to have baked brie, hot buttered rum and toasted marshmallows around fire pits on the beach.
Sea shanty group Du Hag Owr will provide the musical accompaniment to the event.
Should the leaders wish to toast a successful summit – or drown their sorrows – they will be offered Cornish sparkling wine, German Riesling, Australian Shiraz, Cornish beer and a hedgerow fizz cocktail.
