Student Today Eating out in Lancaster
If you are to make a success of your time in Lancaster it is advisable that, at regular intervals, you take on board nourishment.
Obviously, being up to your eyes in debt and with the SU bar placing incredible demands on whatever slender wad you can muster, the vast majority of these meals will be prepared in the home. Pasta and tomatoes, pasta and pesto, raw pasta in a dry bap, beans in an ice-cream cone... You know the kind of thing. And if you don't by now, you soon will.
But there will inevitably be occasions when you feel the time is right to cut loose and invest in some quality fodder. To tickle your taste-buds with the fruits of a competent chef and - even better - leave them with the washing up. Lancaster will serve you well.
Food from around the world is to be found in every corner of the city, cheek by jowl with the best of British.
For this latter look no further than the city's pubs. Fancy a banger and mash to die for or a full English ample enough to absorb even the largest of hangovers? Look no further than the John O'Gaunt in Market Square. Or the canalside Water Witch. Or Penny Street's Brown Cow. Or - let's stop this list now. Suffice it so say that these and umpteen other traditional Lancaster boozer can blow you out on honest home-prepared grub which will strain your belt rather than your budget.
Clearly, however, sprawling platters of Great British stodgy are not to everybody's taste. After all, some people want to make it into their 40s with free-flowing arteries. They too are well catered for.
Fancy something from the Orient? If you've eaten better Chinese and Cantonese cuisine than is to be found at the Fortune Star, Golden Jade or the Golden Dragon please get in touch with full details. This reporter will run to that restaurant right now, barefoot over hot broken glass if necessary. And if anywhere in the North offers better Japanese grub than that served by the Miyabi, hats will be eaten from now until the 12th of never.
Then, of course, there is that other Great British tradition - the Indian. Two restaurants must be given special mention. The Sultan and The Moghuls. There are plenty of others besides this pair, all offering a high standard of food, but be advised. As a former judge of the Lancaster Curry Chef of the Year competition, this reporter would gladly eat three square a day from their bins. Enjoy the flavours of Europe?
Try the Italian stylings of Marcos or Etna, the gallic antics of Simply French or mouth-watering tapas at The Vine, Casa Luca or The Royal. Is Switzerland European? Who cares, get round some Swiss chow at Elliots. The choice is endless.
Well, not endless. Let's just say there are plenty of restaurants and places to eat. Your only problem now is deciding where to begin. That and keeping yourself alive on dry goods and budget meats between your sporadic meals out. Good luck friend.
