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which you can pick up in the Tourist Information Centres. Some
of the information here is sourced from restaurants adverts
in the 2000 edition.
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RESTAURANTS
OUT OF TOWN
Cottage Restaurant Lancaster Road, Caton LA2 9QJ Tel. or Fax: 01524
770833
Open Lunchtime - evening dinner. Sun, Mon. Tues open from 12 noon.
Weds, Thu, Fri, Sat: open from 11.00am
What's It Like? Built in 1692 (though I doubt it was a restaurant
back then) the Cottage is located in Caton Village. Traditional food
and quality service on offer. The Cottage has won the best kept restaurant
award in 1998 and 1999. • Eaten here? Send
us a review!
Essence
2 Scotland Road, Carnforth, LA5 9JY
Tel: 01524 735093 • Eaten here? Send
us a review! Jennifer Hilverkus (August 2007): Expected a lot more for the pricebracket. Restaurant smells of damp
when you walk in. Champagne was flat, bread was stale - however
cornbread was delicious! Monkfish was tough as an old boot served on
a bed of mish mash of indistinguishable flavours. Husband's lamb much
better. Baked fig dessert was rotten. Pastry poor quality and sauce
far too tart to accompany dish. Honey icecream was mediocre. For £30
a head for two courses expected something much nicer. Dishes need to
be simplified and unpretentiousised so that flavours can come
through. The fact that there was only one other couple there on a
Saturday night says it all.
The Fleece Inn
Dolphinholme LA2 9AQ
Tel: 01524 791233 • Eaten Here? Send
us a review! Chris Boardman (March 2008): I called in with some friends from Wyreside Hall without booking and quickly got a table. Very friendly staff, very reasonable prices and I think one of the few places left where you can still get Roast Beef cooked 'rare' rather than the usual 'cooked-all-day' offerings from most other eateries. RECOMMENDED.
Fortons Restaurante
Whinney Brow Lane, Forton, Lancaster tel. 01524
791254 • Eaten here? Send
us a review! John Winnard (June 2008): Ate there recently. Food was Ok but expensive for average quality. Front of house staff were friendly but felt that there was an underlying atmosphere. Wouldn't recommend it for friendliness but nevertheless not too bad, but wouldn't return.
Chris Boardman (March 2008): Booked a table in advance, first visit, arrived 5 minutes early, front end staff very welcoming, food OK except one main course, but sadly when politely querying an item on the bill, was immediately met with a barrage of accusational lies and abuse from the chef and then the chef's wife!! Very 'back street'. Definitely will never go again. NOT RECOMMENDED! Michael Glen (October 2007): Excellent food, the girls on the bar were a bit dizzy and slow, but would certainly go back!
The Golden Ball - Snatchems
Heaton with Oxcliffe, Morecambe, LA3 3ER
Tel. 01524 63317
Freshly prepared Home cooked food served daily from
12 - 2pm & from 6 - 9pm. Special Winter saver menu available Monday
to Friday Lunchtimes.
Theme Menus in the evening running alongside our normal menu. • Eaten here? Send
us a review! Mrs Ousby (November 2009): Fantastic night, fantastic food, fantastic hospitality.
We'll be back!! Hazel Leech (December 2008): Just had Saturday lunch at Snatchems - 5 people and the dog. Great meals, very good value - traditional pub fayre plus more. Wood burners in each room, cosy and full of xmas cheer. Would heartily recommend this pub.
The Hawthorns
Bye-Pass Road, Bolton-le-Sands, LA5 8JD
Restaurant & Cafe
Open Tu + Wed: 9am - 2.30pm
Thu - Sat: 9am - 9pm, Sun: 9am - 7pm.
Comprehensive menu of traditional favourites in this cosy family restaurant. Smaller portions an option and our experienced chef is happy to cater for special diets / preferences on request.
The Mill Inn, Thurnham
Thurnham Mill, Conder Green, Lancaster LA2 0BD
Tel.
01524 752852 • Eaten here? Send
us a review! Satori (September 2010): Under new management this place has crashed downhill, I'm sorry to say. The once excellent service is pretty dreadful now - a couple of weeks ago we came for sunday lunch - the waitress took my companion's order - and then dashed off without taking mine. Not a soul in sight until they came back with the meal - for one. Carvery roast as dry as biltong. Went back more recently, ordered coffee while we looked at the menu, waited 15 minutes and then went to the bar and found it sat there gone cold whilst the staff were sorting out their other business together at the far end of the bar. We were the only customers in the place! The once-thrilling vegetarian menu has vanished. You get a nice view. That's it really. If you are still keen to go, check that the place is open first - they have a habit of closing down without notice for functions.
The New Holly
Lancaster Road, A6,
Forton,
PR3 0BL.
Tel: 01524 793500
The New Holly is an award winning public house with a new restaurant, bars, games room, and sumptuous en suite accomodation. • Eaten here? Send
us a review!
Old Roof Tree Inn Middleton Road, Middleton LA3 3JT tel. 01524 852434 • Eaten here? Send
us a review!
The Priory
Hotel & Restaurant The Square, Scorton, Lancaster tel. 01524 791255
Scorton Village's public bar and also restaurant with a range of great
food served all day in good proportions. Popular with cyclists. Menus range from breakfast, lunches and light snacks
to full evening meals. The food on offer is of a traditional English flavour
with international dishes appearing on the specials board. The restaurant
sources all its food locally using Fylde coast or Bowland Forest produce
and Garstang cheeses. • Eaten here? Send
us a review!
Redbank Farm - cafe and campsite
The Shore, Bolton-le-Sands, LA5 8JR
Tel: 01524 823196 / 01524 824981
Mob:
07866 512511 /
07814 922061 Cafe open 9.30am-4.30pm daily, except Mondays (closed)
Friendly family run farm, cafe and very pretty campsite with stunning views across the bay. Chickens roam around contentedly and white doves roost along the eaves of the old barn. The cafe serves a range of delicious homemade dishes, several of them from their own organic salt-marsh reared lamb and free-range eggs (which are also for sale here). There's a children's animal area with resident pigs Rodney and Cassandra, pigmy goats, rabbits and baby lambs and calves in Springtime. Well worth a visit on a sunny (or rainy) day - it's a lovely cycle ride along the canal and seashore from Lancaster (about 6 miles). • Eaten here? Send
us a review!
Whitewalls
Restaurant
39 Hatlex Lane, Hest Bank, Nr. Lancaster Tel: 01524
822768 Fax: 01524 823429
Based near Lancaster at Hest Bank. • Eaten here? Send
us a review!
Lancaster University
Thanks to John Harding for the following info (as of December 2002) Spicy Hut
Cartmel College, County Avenue, Lancaster University, Bailrigg, Lancaster,
LA1 4YD Tel: 01524 593373 Directions: Go into the University and turn
left at the first roundabout. Go round the perimeter round until you reach
County Avenue on your right. At the bottom of this road on the right hand
side is a little path, take that and it will lead you onto the spine.
Turn left and it is about two metres away. Sundays is all you can eat
for £6.50! • Eaten here? Send
us a review!
The following are all cafes or restaurants with places to buy food and
sit down and eat them. There is also a fish and chip shop next to Pizzetta
but with no dining facilities. All the coffee shops are open from about
10.00am till 4.00pm during term, except Fylde which is open till 10.00pm.
Pizzetta and Popeyes are open till late.
Cartmel Coffee Shop Cartmel College (next to Cartmel
Bar).Sandwiches • Eaten here? Send
us a review!
Bowland Coffee Shop Bowland College (next to Bowland
Bar).Sandwiches. • Eaten here? Send
us a review!
Popeyes Café, Bowland College, Tower Avenue. (Next
to Lancaster University Students Unon officies).
Kebabs, burgers, chicken. Pizzas as well. • Eaten here? Send
us a review!
Pizzetta Republic, Fylde College (on the South Spine).
Burgers, Pizzas • Eaten here? Send
us a review!
Fylde Coffee Shop Fylde College (in the Fylde Courtyard).
Sandwiches. • Eaten here? Send
us a review!
Grizedale Coffee Shop Grizedale College (in the Grizedale
Bar) Sandwiches, baggettes • Eaten here? Send
us a review!
Wibbly Wobblys Too
Pendle College (on the South Spine)
Burgers, sandwiches. Very upmarket and upper class! • Eaten here? Send
us a review!
The Dalton Arms Ten Row, West Quay, Glasson Dock, nr Lancaster, LA2 0BZ
Tel: 01524 751213 • Eaten here? Send
us a review!
Crown & Anchor Middleton Road, Middleton LA3 3JJ tel. 01524 850990 • Eaten here? Send
us a review!
Greyhound Hotel 10 Low Road, Halton, Lancaster LA2 6LZ tel. 01524
811356 Satori (July 2006): Not much for a vegan except the chips (let's face it, few pubs do) but the new management are just moving in and that might change - they did the best plate of chips I've eaten this year. • Eaten here? Send
us a review!
The Plough Inn
Main Road,
Galgate,
Lancaster
LA2 0LQ. tel.
01524 751337
Open Monday - Saturday: 11am - midnight
Sunday: 11am ~ 11pm
Traditional Home Cooked Pub Fayre Served Daily from 12 noon through til' 9pm. • Eaten here? Send
us a review!
Ship Hotel 9 Main Street, Overton LA3 3HD tel. 01524 858231 Elizabeth Ashby writes (20/1/02) "There is much more to this place
than serves food. it is only one minute walk from the start of the Sunderland
Point tidal road, which hundreds of people come every year as it is a
fantastic spot for bird watching.
"The Ship itsself has a very interesting birds' egg collection containing
thousands of eggs from all over the world and collections of eggs based
soley on British birds. there are also a few stuffed birds all of which
is believed to be a hundred years old.
"You have to agree that as popular as bird spotting is surely the
birds of sunderland point and the eggs of the Ship Hotel make this place
a must for bird lovers."
Thank you, Elizabeth. We of course remind all our readers that the egg
collection is an old one, and wild bird egg collecting is now illegal
in the UK. • Eaten here? Send
us a review!
Stork Hotel Glasson Dock, Lancaster LA2 0AN tel. 01524 751234 Peter Parnell wrote (December 2002): "Since
a new chef has taken over in the last six months (approx August 2002)
the food has been of a first class rating with many dishes on the 'specials'
board. Well done!" • Eaten here? Send
us a review!
Victoria Inn Glasson Dock, Lancaster LA2 0BT tel. 01524 751423 • Eaten here? Send
us a review!
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