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Lancashire Restaurants - The essential UK restaurant guide for eating out in Lancashire
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Chop houses conjure up vaguely Dickensian images of ruddy, portly, bewhiskered gentlemen tucking into hearty meals washed down with copious amounts of beer, wine and port. So when Paul Heathcote was looking for a location for his unique take on the t...
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The restaurant game is a year-round business and while you, the diner, are thinking about places to eat on a long summer evening, many restaurateurs are sat fine-tuning their Xmas menus. They want you there come rain or shine – preferably with a larg...
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As the nights draw in, what better way to combat the chill than with a warm, satisfying meal in cosy surroundings. The Waterside in Littleborough is an ideal choice for such an occasion. Approaching the restaurant on a cold, clear night, the building...
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Wherever you go in the country, the restaurant scene is in a constant state of flux and regeneration. New restaurants are opening up every month, old favourites closing their doors, and before you know it yesterday's gastropub has morphed into today'...
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Arriving at The Whitehall Hotel in Darwen is like stepping back in time. The building is a quite majestic Victorian manor house that dates back to 1898 and many period features remain, such as the sandstone frontage, original stained glass windows, d...
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The impending 2008 Olympics are due to put the world spotlight firmly on China and all aspects of life there -- from the sights to the food. While Lancashire may not possess any features quite on the scale of The Great Wall, there are many top-class ...
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The reason many of us dine out is to experience something different, dishes that you’re unlikely to be able to easily rustle up at home. And as a rule of thumb, the higher up the culinary food chain you venture, the more esoteric the meal you can exp...
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There’s no denying that lots of places to eat out these days can be that little bit samey. With the chain pubs, this uniformity is a given -- the business model pretty much demands that whether you’re eating in Blackpool or Burnley, your experience w...
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Every Italian food fan should make a pilgrimage out to Gisburn. For it’s here, in the county’s eastern reaches between Clitheroe and Skipton, that you’ll find one of Lancashire’s most authentic and attractive Italian restaurants, Read This Article
Whatever the season, there’s no denying the attraction of twinning a pleasant meal with a canalside ramble. Whether it’s a brisk pre-prandial constitutional in the depths of winter or a lazy summer’s day stroll, a canal offers a level of tranquillity...
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Hotel restaurants often suffer under the onerous burden of the ‘special occasion.’ So while they might be a popular choice for weddings, funerals, birthdays, leaving-dos and the like, they don’t tend to figure on the radar when it comes to a midweek ...
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Global warming notwithstanding, the English summer is notoriously brief and transient – here today and gone tomorrow. So when one of those glorious summer days does finally arrive, you really ought to try and make the most of it. For diners, this me...
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Provenance, traceability, ‘farm gate to plate’. . .whatever you choose to call it, there’s no denying its appeal. Would you rather see ‘Rack Of Lamb’ on a menu or ‘Wasdale Head Farm Rack Of Herdwick Lamb’? ‘Chicken’ or ‘Corn-Fed Goosnargh Chicken’? ‘...
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For that special occasion lunch or dinner, nothing quite beats the experience of dining out at a country house hotel. The food, quite frankly, is of secondary importance – what you’re looking for are the peripherals, the drive out to the country, the...
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While not quite a dying art, traditional British cooking is most certainly on the wane, in danger of being squeezed out of the mainstream by changing tastes and the steady onslaught of mass-market ‘pub grub’. These days, pub diners are far more likel...
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If and when the Queen eventually retires, she will have no shortage of comfortable retreats in which to see out her autumn years – Sandringham, Balmoral and Windsor to name but three. But Her Majesty has apparently expressed a wish to retire one day ...
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Readers of a certain age will be able to cast their minds back to a grey post-war world when pizza was an exotic foreign delicacy and olive oil something you bought from the chemist for medical reasons. Over the years, Italian immigrants-turned-resta...
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While not quite the house that Jack built, Stanley House is not far off. This painstakingly restored 17th-century Mellor manor house is within spitting distance of suburban Blackburn, and like many things in the town -- most famously the football clu...
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Ho Hos is truly a one-off sort of place. Swanky Chinese restaurants may abound in places like Manchester 's famous Chinatown. But, with the best will in the world, a nondescript street in Lees, two miles or so north of Oldham town centre, is not the ...
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A few years back -- in 1992 to be precise -- the bright sparks at the Ordinance Survey office put their heads together and set to calculating the dead centre of the British Isles. It turned out to be the Lancashire village of Dunsop Bridge, at the he...
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Manchester has undergone a real transformation in the last decade or so, accelerated by the IRA bomb which flattened part of the city and the Commonwealth Games giving the “dirty old town” international prestige. Before the boom it seemed inconceivab...
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With more than 200 restaurants serving up Italian food in the Lancashire area, lovers of pasta, pesto and pizza are never going to go hungry. Whether your gig is fine dining, fast food, modern bistros, traditional trattorias, supertuscan wines or jus...
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One of the delights of dining out in rural Lancashire is the opportunity to treat yourself to both a meal and an overnight stay. The choice is huge – historic country houses, luxury hotels, traditional pubs and inns – and one that fits the bill, part...
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Why eat out in a pub when there are so many decent restaurants around to choose from? For some, it’s all down to price – not many restaurants can offer you the main course for under a fiver that so many of the chain pubs do these days. For others, it...
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Okay, nobody would describe Bolton as foodie nirvana. For years it has laboured under a grim, forgotten mill town image, but there are signs of life in Manchester’s neighbour to the north. The Octagon Theatre is drawing crowds from all over the regio...
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A meandering drive through the farmland of the Ribble Valley and the sun-speckled Forest of Bowland is an excellent way to work up an appetite. Even more so when you know that a meal in one of Britain’s finest country inns awaits you. But traveller b...
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There can be few pubs with locations as impressive as the White Hart at Lydgate. It’s only a few miles from the hustle and bustle of Oldham town centre yet its stunning outlook, high on top of the Pennines overlooking Saddleworth Moor, lends it a tru...
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You show us a Lancastrian restaurant that’s going places and we’ll show you a menu that features Bury black pudding and corn-fed Goosnargh chicken. Funny how things change. It used to be that what mattered was what you did with the chicken, not where...
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