The Inn at Whitewell
Bb7 3at, 01200 448222, [email protected]. a beautiful and old fashioned rural inn in a stunning setting in the forest of bowland, at whitewell near clitheroe. it also has 23 bedrooms, plus good food using local ingredients, a noteworthy selection of drinks.
White Horse
The White Horse Helmshore Rd., Helmshore, Rossendale BB4 4LU, 01706 213873. A friendly pub with a good selection of local craft beers, plus a reasonably-priced restaurant, using locally sourced ingredients. Welcomes walkers.
Three Fishes
The award-winning Three Fishes, in the Ribble Valley, Mitton Rd., Mitton, nr. Whalley, BB7 9PQ, 01254 826888 is a pub restaurant serving Real Beer and Real Food.
The Longridge Restaurant
Paul Heathcoteâs flagship The Longridge Restaurant 104-106 Higher Rd., Longridge, nr. Preston PR3 3SY, 01772 784969, [email protected] is an award winning establishment in Longridge, near Preston. Heathcote has championed new British cooking and the use of fresh Lancastrian ingredients.
Marco Pierre White's The Swan Inn
The food at Marco Pierre Whiteâs The Swan Inn blends traditional pub fare with the very best of modern Anglo-French cooking.
The County has distinctive culinary traditions. Black pudding, cow-heel and tripe, and a wide variety of savoury pies are traditional foods, some of which have been picked up and developed by a new generation of chefs. Other local specialities include young lamb from the hill farms, Lancashire hotpot a lamb based stew, soft Lancashire oatcakes; Eccles cakes and Chorley cakes. Local bakers remain a common sight.
Lancashire cheese is considered one of the premier products of the county. It is associated with the town of Leigh, and Ben Gunn, a character in the Robert Louis Stevenson novel Treasure Island, craved Leigh Toaster during his three-year exile as a castaway. Lancashire cheese can be classified as either "tasty", "crumbly" or "creamy". Matured Lancashire Cheese is referred to locally as "tasty". Creamy and tasty are the original Lancashire cheeses, crumbly being a 1960s invention to effectively compete with Cheshire, Wensleydale and Caerphilly. It is reputed to be the best toasting cheese in the world and as such is a favourite for Welsh rarebit.