Places to eat in Lancashire

There’s no pier at Morecambe anymore but jutting out into Morecambe Bay from behind the newly restored Midland Hotel there is a stone jetty and on the jetty is the imaginatively named Stone Jetty Café. You can't miss the cafe (the fact that it is part lighthouse helps) and if you aren’t looking for gourmet food this is as good a place as any to have your lunch while you are in the town.

It only opens in the day time, the food is basic – sandwiches, baked potatoes, chips, burgers etc it’s well cooked and well presented. It's not an upmarket place, you don’t book a table and you can just have tea, coffee or icecream if you like.

It’s sort of semi-self-service, you go inside to order and are given a number and you sit down either inside or if the weather is ok you can sit outside on plastic garden furniture, when your order is ready someone will come out, yell your number and bring your order.

Maybe the Stone Jetty’s biggest asset is the bay, on a clear day the views from the jetty are quite staggeringly wonderful (as long as you don't look back towards Morecambe) and even if you don’t eat you should have a walk along.

The railway once ran along the jetty from where you could pick up an international passenger steamer, the cafe is the old station and there are pictures on the wall which will give you some idea of the buzzing place this once was.

Favorite Dish: I usually have a baked potatoe with prawns, the cakes are pretty wonderful.

A shop not a restaurant, if you are visiting for the day and want to grab something to eat outdoors Potts Pies are something of a local delicacy (maybe second only to Morecambe Bay Potted Shrimps).

Favorite Dish: Pies

Morecambe Tandoori (resturant and take away) serves the best India food in town. It’s often busy, particularly at weekends so it might be a good idea to ring and reserve a table. They don’t have a licence to sell alcohol but you can bring you own wine and they will serve it, there is an off licence just round the corner in Regent Road.