Food fit for a president: Cornish ingredients on the menu for G7 world leaders

From a beach BBQ to roasted Turbot - the G7 menu looks very Cornish!

Author: Chris Maskery and Emma HartPublished 11th Jun 2021

World leaders will feast on Cornwall’s finest food during the G7 summit. They will enjoy a lavish dinner at the Eden Project tonight (Friday 11th June).

The Queen, Prince Charles, Camilla and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will also attend the reception.

The guests will be served locally caught fish and cheese on Friday, followed by a less formal BBQ on the beach on Saturday!

What's on the menu?

Friday Night:

  • 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.
  • Friday's dinner will be cooked by Emily Scott, chef at the Watergate Bay hotel near Newquay.

Saturday Night:

  • Canapes: 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.

Saturday's BBQ will be cooked by Simon Stallard from the Hidden Hut, based at Porthcurnick Beach near Portscatho.

After the BBQ 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.

The visiting leaders will also be treated to a flypast by the Red Arrows!

G7 in pictures

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Us President, Joe Biden's, motorcade travelling through Cornwall

Boris Johnson and Joe Biden meet together for the first time in Carbis Bay



Police officers patrolling the water during the Red Arrows display on the Saturday evening

Police officers playing football with 9-year-old Cai Whenray-Hughes

Police officers during the G7 summit

Police direct traffic during protest in St Ives

Cornish singer-songwriter Daisy Clark performs for G7 leaders and Royal Family

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Boris Johnson hosts a beach barbecue on Carbis Bay for the world leaders

The Red Arrows over Carbis Bay

The world leaders during day two of the G7 summit

Carbis Bay during the G7 summit

World leaders and their partners watch the Red Arrows perform over Carbis Bay

The beach barbecue on the Saturday evening

Joe and Jill Biden arrive at Cornwall Airport Newquay ahead of the summit

On the beach at Carbis Bay

Police officers on Porthminster beach, St Ives, during an Extinction Rebellion protest

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