Food & Drink

Lancashire is famous for its quality produce and can offer an exciting range of places to eat and drink from inviting inns and canal side pubs, stylish restaurants and cosy cafes, all devoted to creating a true Lancashire culinary experience. 

Looking for an inviting inn?  Why not take your chances at the award winning Highwayman, serving the finest cask ales and best regional cuisine in the area or maybe the 17th Century coaching house The Cartford Inn, boasting cosy open wood fires and simple yet creative dishes.

For canal side pubs look no further than Guys Thatched Hamlet, home of world famous steak and kidney pudding.  You can watch the boats sail by on the Lancaster canal.

If it’s a stylish restaurant you seek you will be spoiled for choice – boasting magnificent Morecambe Bay sea views the art deco hotel, The Midland offers a true dining experience famous for its afternoon teas and local seafood dishes.  Cutting edge fine dining is also the ethos at The Grill on the Hill at Stanley House.  Drinks from 'The Loft Lounge' take in in the panoramic views of the Ribble Valley countryside.

For a more relaxed dining experience there is a warmth of welcome waiting for you at one of our cosy cafes. Toast Cafe Bar, in the heart of Blackpool is dedicated to delivering beautifully presented fresh food.  At Wellies Cafe part of the artisan Greenlands Farm Village in Carnforth you can savour the home cooked Lancashire fayre overlooking to duck pond outside.

Of course this is just a flavour.  To help you choose where to dine look out for the Taste Lancashire accreditation logo.  You can be confident you are dining with the best.  Use the search function on the right of this page to make your selection.

Wherever you choose to dine, as you will discover, our welcoming hosts have a deep-rooted passion for locally sourced dishes.      

Food and Drink Intineraries:
You may be inspired by our suggested tasty itinerary below.  Watch delicious local food and drink being brewed and baked, grown and ground:
The Butcher, the Baker and the Beermaker
A feast of specialist foods, local brewing, tasting and tippling.
Morning 
Bashall Barn Food Visitor Centre
Bashall Barn in the heart of the Ribble Valley is home to Bowland Brewery which makes handcrafted real ales - look out for Sawley Tempted, Hen Harrier and Bowland Dragon. The brewery’s visitor centre has a viewing window overlooking the process, displays and lots of beer-related items on offer. Bashall Barn also houses Victoria’s India curry sauces and chutneys and Ribblesdale Honey with onsite extraction bee keeping, training and honey-making.

Lunch 
Stay and have lunch at the Taste Lancashire Highest Quality Assured Bashall Barn restaurant where you can enjoy a range of homemade meals, as well as cakes and scones made on site by expert bakers.

Afternoon 
Clitheroe - there are so many good butchers in Lancashire it’s hard to select just one to visit but we’ve plumped for one of the most well-known, Cowman's of Clitheroe, producing over 70 different types of award-winning sausages, some with surprising ingredients from their aptly named Famous Sausage Shop. While in Clitheroe, why not also visit D Byrne and Co, a multi-award winning independent wine merchant with labyrinthine cellars and Cheesie Tchaikovsky, a specialist cheese shop and delicatessen.

Evening 
Moorhouses Brewery
A tour of the brewery will not only show you how the beer is made but give you the chance to sample some of these fantastic ales, such as Pendle Witches Brew and Pride of Pendle, followed by a traditional Lancashire supper.