The town of Penzance provides a wide variety of recreational, entertainment and sporting activities - both to residents and to visitors. Whether day-time or night-time, gentle or strenuous, indoors or outdoors, participant or spectator, there is something for everyone.

Penzance offers a range of restaurants, pubs and inns. There are also many fast food places serving a wide variety of food of various ethnic origins. To spend an evening at a Cornish Meadery or to eat a hot Cornish Pasty at lunchtime in the traditional manner (from end to end while held in the hands) or to be served a Cornish Cream Tea at a working farm are culinary experiences not to be missed.