Lancashire Dining Articles
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The Chocolate Café (2009)
Baker Paul Morris and wife Emma swapped the French Riviera for Ramsbottom to open what is surely one of Lancashire's more indulgent venues, The Chocolate Café. The concept is simple - a shop and upstairs café dedicated entirely to all things chocolatey. It's situate...Read This Article
Beating The Credit Crunch (2009)
With the credit crunch starting to bite, restaurants are very much in the front line of the recession. Restaurateurs are desparate to get people through the door and that can only be good news for diners. If you're willing to shop around, there are some great deals and offers out...Read This Article
All Set For Summer (2008)
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 large group of friends or family i...Read This Article
The Waterside (2007)
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 looks pretty as a picture, wi...Read This Article
What's New For Lancashire Diners (2007)
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's Thai restaurant. Lancashire ...Read This Article
MJs Restaurant (2007)
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, decorative ceilings and open fi...Read This Article
Eating Chinese In Lancashire (2007)
The Beijing Olympics 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 Chinese restaurants to be found, all offering a ...Read This Article
Dining Out With A Difference (2007)
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 will be the same. But even inde...Read This Article
La Locanda (2006)
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, La Locanda. Gisburn, with its cattle market and ru...Read This Article
Dining By The Lancaster Canal (2006)
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 that's increasingly rare in t...Read This Article
Shaw Hill (2006)
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 meal out with your partner or ...Read This Article
Al Fresco Dining In Lancashire (2006)
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 means seeking out a restaurant w...Read This Article
Fenwick Arms (2006)
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'? 'Fillet Steak' or 'Bowland Beef...Read This Article
Country House Dining In Lancashire (2006)
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 approach to some grand house,...Read This Article
Ye Horns Inn (2005)
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 likely to order lasagne, or curry, ...Read This Article
Where To Eat Out Around Clitheroe (2005)
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 to the Ribble Valley, for whic...Read This Article
Indian, The New Italian (2005)
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-restaurateurs have changed our tast...Read This Article
Cassis @ Stanley House (2005)
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 club -- Stanley House owes its re...Read This Article
Ho Hos (2005)
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 most obvious of locations for ...Read This Article
Where To Eat In The Forest Of Bowland (2005)
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 heart of the Forest of Bowland A...Read This Article
