Pandora Inn
This thatched pub on a creek 4 miles north of Falmouth is a great retreat, with both a patio and a moored pontoon for summer dining. The menu features standard pub grub—for example, sandwiches and baguettes, fish pie, mushroom and red wine pie, and garlic and lemon pork loin with lyonnaise potatoes—but you may be satisfied with just a local ale or a West Country organic wine by the waterside. Maritime memorabilia and fresh flowers provide decoration, and there's a blazing fire in winter. You can sit in the flagstone bar, in the oak-beamed room upstairs, or outside.