If you want to dine al fresco but the weather has different ideas try the Terrace Garden - a domed conservatory serving

If you want to dine al fresco but the weather has different ideas, try the Terrace Garden - a domed conservatory serving beef and Yorkshire pudding. For those wanting live music and discos, the KING ARTHUR'S ARMS with its fruit machines and pool table (not to mention the Green Bullet beer at pounds 1.85 per pint) is popular.Hot tipsFill up with petrol before you arrive: the village's two pumps look like they were last used by King Arthur.How to get thereFrom London and the Midlands, take the M5 to Exeter and then the A30 to Launceston and A395 to Camelford (journey time: four hours). Bodmin Parkway railway station and Newquay airport are both about 40 minutes drive away.CHARLES OULTON. IN LONDON ... Bloom's (above) 90 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 (0171 247 6001).

Jewish families and Brick Lane stallholders fight for salt beef, chopped liver, and other specialities Unique. Average pounds 12.50. Czech Club Czech & Slovak National House, 74 West End Lane, London NW6 (0171 372 5251). Britain's only Czech restaurant serves Eastern European comfort food (dumplings, veal, sauerkraut) at its best A popular meeting place for ex-pat Czechs. THE CORNISHMAN used to be a pottery until its conversion to a pub 17 years ago, and the former potter can now be found pulling the pints. It's particularly pleasant at this time of year as drinkers sit out on a terrace, and in a large garden beyond. By then, you'll probably have had at least one Cornish pasty, but if not, head down to the shop at the bottom of the hill, and not just because of the notice proclaiming them to have been "baked by a little old Cornish biddy".Where to drinkTintagel has nine pubs, five of them in the main street. A speciality is the seafood platter of lobster, crevettes, crab, langoustines, and a selection of cold seafood costing pounds 32 for two.

Among the best tea shops - and there are many - is the PANGENNA TEA GARDEN where you sit under wide umbrellas in the garden, eating cream teas for pounds 2.35. For a more extravagant night out, it's well worth driving a few miles down the coast towards Port Isaac, and the 17th-century PORT GAVERNE HOTEL where the seafood in particular is excellent. It is popular, with many regular customers, so it is important to book early.Where to eatTHE RIGGS RESTAURANT AND TEA ROOMS, and THE CROSSBOW, both in the main street, are typical of the predominantly "Chicken Kiev" restaurants in Tintagel, where holidaymakers eat relatively cheaply but well. Tel: 01840 770410.There are plenty of bed and breakfast places around, but the best is probably the POLKERR GUEST HOUSE, which has been highly commended by the English Tourist Board despite being situated on the road At pounds 15 to pounds 20 per person, it is good value.

A four course dinner in the oak panelled dining room (specialities include sea trout and wild salmon from the River Tamar) costs pounds 16. A double room and breakfast ranges from pounds 29 to pounds 36, and single rooms from pounds 45 to pounds 50. It was owned by the same family for almost 600 years, and it retains the atmosphere of a private house: the eight bedrooms all have antique furniture, and there is a smoking room with an open log fire. The most strikingly situated is KING ARTHUR'S CASTLE HOTEL, an imposing Edwardian building with 60 bedrooms which overlooks the ruins from the edge of the cliff. Bed and breakfast is pounds 27.50 per person, with dinner pounds 8.50.