Yes, the one at Hull (if still there) was excellent.All main stations need a greasy spoon doing fry-ups.
Yes, the one at Hull (if still there) was excellent.
It is very good, I'll give you that. But the Sheffield Tap is much better in my opinion.Lancaster is a wonderful station and an example of why we need competition. It’s has a wonderful Costa Coffee but a terrible cafe express and WH Smith.
It also has THE BEST independent station pub and will have an independent curry house soon.
So 1 out of 3 chains (Costa) is good but 1 out of 1 independents are excellent (The Pub)
It is very good, I'll give you that. But the Sheffield Tap is much better in my opinion.
Intrigued and looking forward to the curry house though!
Beware of that cafe express, I'm fairly sure I got food poisoning from their microwaved fare. The costa is also extremely expensive. If I have a long layover in Lancaster I'll typically walk down to the tescos in town for a meal deal instead or the pub down the road that recently got a glowing review in the grauniad for its food.It’s has a wonderful Costa Coffee but a terrible cafe express and WH Smith.
Absolutely.They're both excellent pubs and a credit to their profession
I also look forward to getting a Madras for the train back
Well, given that HMT will be putting on pressure for rental income to be maximised.....Is there any reason why stations with a business below a certain number of employees couldn't just be exempted from the new competition rules? Make Starbucks and Pumpkin compete; let the little café at Piddleton-on-the-Myre (or in a medium-sized station like Exeter, which currently only has chains) keep its monopoly.
Absolutely.
I have been known on multiple occasions to bail out of trains back from Scotland for pints in the station pub at Lancaster
They do a rail staff discount too which is always appreciated.
It is indeed. And also about the worst Cornish pasties to be found in Cornwall...I am supposing that the Bath Spa Warren's outlet is the Cornish company known for it's Cornish Pasties?
Well almost, but the crown for the worst goes to Ginsters .It is indeed. And also about the worst Cornish pasties to be found in Cornwall...
They're so bad I don't even class them as pasties....Well almost, but the crown for the worst goes to Ginsters .
Beware of that cafe express, I'm fairly sure I got food poisoning from their microwaved fare. The costa is also extremely expensive. If I have a long layover in Lancaster I'll typically walk down to the tescos in town for a meal deal instead or the pub down the road that recently got a glowing review in the grauniad for its food.
The only station food places behind the gates I've ever felt not ripped off by is the Greggs in London Bridge and frankly I've already dreamt before about at least two Greggs on every street in Britain. Also the coffee shops at Falconwood and New Eltham, but maybe they have gone now...
Yes! I visited it in June 2021. Good selection of Ales (several local ones!) and Ciders, very friendly service.I'm planning a visit to the Ale Way Micropub at Axminster station. Can anyone recommend it?
I think the people of Cornwall should be far more concerned with SSP's "Handmade In Cornwall" slapped all over their hideous The Pasty Shop offerings, I've seen better looking things floating down the Mersey than their £6 detritus.Greggs, I think only have two outlets in Cornwall. One in Truro recently opened to much chagrin.
I sometimes visited the West Cornwall Pasty Co. outlet at York station. I think there was also one at Kings Cross. I don't know if they're still around - the website gives their address as M5, Junction 30, Sandygate Roundabout, Exeter. I've never noticed it, probably because I'm too busy negotiating the road layout!I think the people of Cornwall should be far more concerned with SSP's "Handmade In Cornwall" slapped all over their hideous The Pasty Shop offerings, I've seen better looking things floating down the Mersey than their £6 detritus.
*Should read handflushed in Runcorn.
They still seem to have outlets at or nearby to London Waterloo station, also Cambridge, Clapham Junction, East Croydon and Bristol Temple Meads.I sometimes visited the West Cornwall Pasty Co. outlet at York station. I think there was also one at Kings Cross. I don't know if they're still around - the website gives their address as M5, Junction 30, Sandygate Roundabout, Exeter. I've never noticed it, probably because I'm too busy negotiating the road layout!
Both are franchises operated by SSP.Glasgow Central has recently lost Burger King, Upper Crust
I'll have to bear in mind I'm thinking of ticking off some Millage with Hull Trains ans I hear their onboard catering is a little lacklustre.Yes, the one at Hull (if still there) was excellent.
That’s the free market for youI would like to see more competition to Pumpkin and Upper Crust, neither of which I think are particularly good but I understand the primary reason for their high prices isnt their captive market but the high rent they are charged for their premises and other station retail suffers the same experience. I.e. the rent charged is closer to that of airport retail rather than high street retail.
That and a chippyAll main stations need a greasy spoon doing fry-ups.
That and a chippy