Adam Vasey and the team behind Beastro are opening a daytime cafe and nighttime pop-up eatery in the heart of St. Agnes.
Institute will be located in the centre of the village in a building that is already at the heart of our community. We’ll create a welcoming year-round neighbourhood café that serves simple super tasty (Vasey style) food, great coffee, and the needs of the village. We’re calling it Institute, and we’re asking for your help to get the doors open.
Why We’re Doing This
Institute will be a neighbourhood café, run by locals, that reflects the current needs of our vibrant and growing village. Think of a French street café or Italian deli where locals from across the board stop-by for coffee or lunch regularly, rather than just as an occasional treat.
What We’ll Be Offering
- All day cafe space with solid sense of style and undeniably great food, open from 8.30-3.30/4.00, 6 days a week consistently
- A welcoming communal style space for people enjoy daily instead of just as a treat
- Consistent opening hours with relaxed and professional service.
- Deli-style sandwiches with all meats smoked in house, big hearty healthy salads ,great coffee, affordable breakfast, a strong drinks game (think homemade sodas), Vasey’s burgers on Saturdays and a fully automated takeway system.
- The cafe and outdoor space will also double as venue for Adam’s popular pop-ups which will happen frequently throughout the year giving the village another dining option in the same vein as Adam’s successful past and current pop-ups.
- A general vibe informed by great atmosphere, causal and professional service, interesting and affordable food and beverage offerings, curated music and relaxed surroundings.
How Your Contributions Will Help
It’s been a while since the room has functioned as a café, and Adam’s plans are to have a different layout than previously so we’re looking for funding to fit out the room to Adam’s spec and buy equipment to make the cafe functional, as quickly as possible.
We’re raising money to put towards equipment (fridges, drinks fridge, ambient food display cabinet etc) and general fitting out (bar counters, stools, tables and chairs, lighting, signage and redecorating).
We intend to take full advantage of the light and breezy space, keeping decor very simple with attractive signs to make the cafe super visual to draw customers.
We visualise a large service bar along back wall on casters that can be moved and cleaned under, and a standing/tall seated bar along the window, good for people working We intend to hang some great artwork on the walls and sell vinyl which will double up as decor.
About Adam
Adam Vasey is a Cornish-born chef who has owned and operated award winning restaurants in his home town of St.Agnes. Adam cooks Gutsy food over wood and charcoal, whilst championing local suppliers and growers.
Adam’s roots are deeply embedded in St.Agnes, having grown up here and seeing his father serving the local community as the village potter and his mother as the chef and original owner of Schooners . Adam feels strongly about the village and has been a progressive force in the St. Agnes food scene over the last 10 years.
His first restaurant No.4 Peterville consistently featured in the Waitrose Good Food Guide and for his next venture Adam transformed Schooners St. Agnes into the high turnover ‘best beach bar in Cornwall’ that it is today.
Another of Adam’s recent projects is Night Hatch where he and the team at Chapel Porth Beach Cafe focus on reinterpreting flavours from his travels in South East Asia and doing away with the trappings of a traditional restaurant.
As well as this Adam has hosted many events in the village , most notably his ‘BEASTRO’ residency which ran last winter and saw the proposed cafe space transformed into an intimate bistro for weekend evenings throughout November .
Last year he teamed up with Skybar creating a unique dining event on St. Agnes head for over 170 people per night, providing his trademark smokey big flavours on a large scale.
Adam loves food and he loves St Agnes, so is always on the look out for opportunities to serve the local community quality food.