Lancaster has its own free "What's Cooking" Directory,
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 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!!
Colin Halligan (June 2007): Dropped in as we were hungry and passing! Spotted from the A6 and noticed it had changed from the previous Spanish restraurant.
Made very welcome and extremely quick and friendly service.
Food was excellent - fresh and extremely good value. We will definately eat here again and would recommend to all! • Eaten here? Send
us a review!
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, 2 courses for £5.
Theme Menus in the evening running alongside our normal menu. • Eaten here? Send
us a review!
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 childrens' 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 - its a lovely cycle ride along the canal and seashore from Lancaster (about 6 miles).
Thurnham Mill Hotel Thurnham Mill, Conder Green, Lancaster LA2 0BD
tel.
01524 752852 What's It Like? Clive Shelley writes
(05/02): "Bar meal selection is good, following a traditional pub
food format and always well presented. Thurnham Mill has a restauraunt
as well as the bar, though the bar is more biased towards eating than
drinking (beers are generally Theakston Best and XB). Value is good.
"Its biggest plus point is its location, set back away from roads and
fronting the Glasson arm of the Lancaster Canal with nothing to look over
onto but rolling farmland and exceptional sunsets over Glasson.
"There are a number of walks that can be devised, taking in the Mill,
the most obvious being the lovely mile and a half down the tow path from
Galgate. You can work out how the Mill conveyed water from the River Conder,
via the canal, for its power as you walk.
"It is also a hotel and looks a lovely place to put visitors up in Lancaster
who would be happy out of town." • Eaten here? Send
us a review!
Whitewalls
Restaurant 39 Hatles Lane, Hest Bank, Nr. Lancaster Tel: 01524
822768 Fax: 01524 823429
Based near Lancaster at Hest Bank, offers excellent food in beautiful
surroundings, a homley atmosphere is what they aim for. They offer civil
wedding ceremonies, celebrate every occasion and menus suit every taste. • 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!
The Golden Ball at Snatchems Lancaster Road, Heaton-With-Oxcliffe. Tel: 01524 63317
On the road from Lancaster to Overton / Sunderland Pt, this riverside pub gets its name from the erswhile activities of the Press Gang. Jeanette Gray (March 2007): Delightful little pub sitting on the banks of the River Lune. Good food, eaten here often, served by friendly staff. Warm friendly atmosphere, cater to all tastes, whether it's a snack you want while sitting in front of coal fires or looking out to the relaxing river flowing, or a special occasion meal , go and see for yourselves, you won't be disappointed. • 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
Diane Gerey wrote in February 2002: "If you want a good steak,
the chef at the Vic is superb, possibly the best in the area." • Eaten here? Send
us a review!
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