The new Hebasca

Hebasca is the nearest bar and restaurant to the Beach Haven – just a five minute walk away – and it overlooks the golf course. It has recently changed oweners and, we’re delighted to report, is better than it’s ever been!

It now offers a revamped, dog-friendly, bar and separate restaurant. We popped down and enjoyed a fabulous meal in the restaurant – all in the name of research for our guests, of course!! 😉

On our arrival at 7pm, the bar was already lively with a good number of familiar local faces (always a good sign) as well as other guests and we enjoyed a quick pint and a g&t whilst we studied the interesting and varied menu.

Arriving at our table we were presented with some home-made rosemary bread with a choice of salt and pepper or mustard butters. Despite a reluctance to fill-up on bread before our meal, once we’d had a nibble of the bread there was no way we were not going to finish it!! Really lovely!

There are four options for each course. We chose a mackerel fillet with almond puree and spring onion and ginger dressing and the seared king scallops with ratatuille, puff pastry, confit tomato and salsa verde.

We’ve eaten at Nathan Outlaws’ excellent, Michelin-starred ‘Fish Kitchen’ om Port Isaac and, we have to say, both these starters were of an equal standard! Fabulous!

In between courses we were treated to a little bonus in the way of chilli and prawn appetiser which was equally as good as the starter!

For the main course, we chose the slow-cooked pork belly with braised sweetheart cabbage, butternut squash puree with a sage, pork and butternut dressing with side of pig cheek, squash and sage cassoulet. This was beautifully tender with and bursting with falvour. The tandoori chicken, sweet potato bhajis, madras puree, cucumber, mint, lemon garlic yoghurt with chicken wing biryani continued the theme from the starter with delicate, subtle flavours with perfectly-cooked chicken.

Our puddings were of the same sky-high standard as the other courses and were beautifully presented. We opted for the plum clafoutis, brandy ice cream, toasted almonds, roasted plum, and I couldn’t resist the sound of a raspberry viennese biscuit with mascarpone mousse, candied lemon zest, fresh raspberry and raspberry gel! Needless to say, they tasted even better than they looked!

In recent years Bude has been blessed with an ever-increasing number of good-dining options as the remaining hotels reinvent themselves. This trend is continuing at Hebasca and we’d currently rate the meal we enjoyed here as the best meal we’ve ever had in Bude!

It’s early days for the new Hebasca and their website hasn’t yet been updated to reflect the changes they’ve made so far. They are also planning to create an alfresco eating area with patio heaters etc. We are heading back down again in the next few weeks with a group of our neighbours for a bar meal which comprises of much more typical pub-food. We look forward to letting you know what that’s like in due course.

For now, we’re delighted to say that Hebasca is definately back in business and comes highly recommended.

See their website here: >> www.hebasca.co.uk

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