The Old Sail Loft Restaurant in Looe, Cornwall, United Kingdom | Restaurant

One of the oldest buildings in Looe, still largely preserved in its original form, the cellar and loft are known to date back at least 450 years. Reputed to be a former haunt for smugglers and sea faring men of the 16 th Century, it was then known locally as â??The Runâ? probably due to it's time honoured association with smuggling which was rife along the Cornish coast.
Sitting in the snug comfort of the very special atmosphere generated by no small part by it's historical associations, it is not difficult to imaging the old sailing boats of the early 1500s moored to the quay outside. Glance at the original beams and roof trusses built of old English oak, some of them said to have been salvaged from the timbers of local wrecks.