The best restaurants in Duke's Lancaster North West

Quick stop for a coffee, a croissant, and a bacon bun. All good, very good, efficient service. The room was a bit on the cold side, but it didn’t matter so much for a quick stop.

My boyfriend and I visited brock st espresso for the first time yesterday. The industrial/retro atmosphere was really cool and very inviting. Lots of nice artwork plus the place is really clean. We each got a latte. One cinnamon latte and one maple latte, So good! We also shared a spinach and cheese empanada which was equally as delicious. The Barista was super nice and friendly. Definitely recommend this place!

Love it, great selection of cocktails, service brilliant and a lovely niche bar

My favorite place to eat, lovely food, clean and staff always helpful.

The food was good, the cooked dishes we'd selected arrived in good succession but the cold dishes were so slow coming we had to chase them up.

Simple dishes, beautifully cooked, and excellent value. On first sight this busy bar-restaurant looks completely typical of a town centre inn. Rather noisy. Plenty of local people meeting for drinks, parties, meals. What sets it apart is the quality of the restaurant. Recently awarded 2AA rosettes, the menu has a full range of dishes, including pub regulars like fish and chips, hamburgers, steaks etc. But look on the right of the menu for seasonal specials and you will find venison, fish of the day, a vegetarian special. Venison was loin medallions, perfectly cooked and wonderfully tender, accompanied by a venison suet pudding, creamed celeriac and a home produced fragrant jus (or gravy as they call it in Lancashire). A fillet of turbot was fresh, perfectly cooked (though possibly a bit over-seasoned) accompanied by braised fennel. Apart from some steaks, all main courses were priced under £30. A short but varied wine list was excellent value. In a world oversupplied by indifferent pub restaurants, this is the kind of place to restore your faith in British hospitality. Keep up the good work, people, and chain your chef to the kitchen; cooking this good and this consistent is too rarely encountered at these prices.

Wonderful service, seated quickly even at lunchtime and the lasagne was absolutely brilliant. Lovely staff, super clean tables and will be back again!

We had a wonderful lunch at Cafe Dolce. Very friendly, helpful staff and excellent food and drinks. Loved the Avocado smash on homemade potato waffle, also the Peach and Mozzerella salad. Yummy strawberry milkshake (I asked for non dairy milk and it was no problem). We even managed to squeeze in a mobility scooter next to the table. Highly recommended!

What a fabulous afternoon. Joined for bottomless brunch. Amazing food exceptional cocktails and wonderful staff will visit again and again

100% recommend too dine in get the food fresh over a takeaway..... eyes were too big for belly but had a huge selection of dishes and we left there belts bursting was delicious can't wait too return

The only Italian thing is the name, otherwise a really bad experience, Italy is a completely different thing

Didn't eat but a late drink with our son visiting him at university. We have visited Tipple on many occasions when in Lancaster and certainly will again. Lovely place great service and atmosphere. Slight negative the toilets were unusually unkempt on this visit.

Short Story: We went to Koko Bento in Lancaster for the first time today and had a really awful experience. Everything was normal, the service was nice and the restaurant was pretty quiet (went at 17.30pm ish). We were shown to our table by waitress no.2 and left to pick our food. When looking at the menu, we noticed that it specified if the chicken dishes had thigh meat. So my husband chose the "Mochiko Chicken Curry" because he really doesn't like thigh meat (makes him feel sick). When the mains arrived, he took a bite and said that it was definitely thigh meat and that he couldn't eat it. He flagged waitress no.1 and said to her that he was really sorry, but the main was chicken thigh meat and that he couldn't eat it, so please could he send it back and get another main. Waitress no.1 said that because he had ordered it and didn't ask about the meat, that it was his fault. My husband repeated again he was sorry, but he couldn't eat the food so could he change meal. Then waitress no.1 went and asked waitress no.2 (who was downstairs) who said it was our fault and that the ingredients were already used so he had to pay for the food he couldn't eat plus a new main. We said politely that this wasn't right and that we wouldn't pay for the main that my husband didn't eat. The other waiter then brang my main (which was good and I thanked him) and saw that it was getting a bit heated and he tried descalate the situation which we thanked him for. Waitress no.1 then rang the manager who wasn't in and tried to make us speak to this manager over the phone (while I was eating my main), which was pretty rude and inappropriate. After my husband said he didn't want to talk to a manager over the phone and that again he wouldn’t be paying for food he didn't eat - we were left alone by the waitresses. When I finished my main, we went downstairs to pay the bill.  Waitress no.2  was at the till and asked if we were going to pay for "everything" in an annoyed tone. And we calmly said we wanted to pay but wouldn't pay for the mochiko chicken curry that wasn't eaten. She then began to argue at us that it was our fault, didn't we know this was a business, we should pay because they had wasted ingredients, etc, in a raised voice, which was very unprofessional. We again said that yes, we could have double-checked about the chicken in the dish, but as it wasn't eaten that we categorically weren't paying for it but were happy to pay for everything else. She then told us to take a seat because she was ringing the police. We said that was fine and sat down at the counter and waited. The call went on for a few minutes before she ended it and walked back to the till and said we could pay now. The till has a screen where you can see the order items and the total bill. We could see she had taken off the mochiko chicken curry, and we paid the bill. My husband asked. "So the police said that you couldn't force us to pay then?". Waitress no. 2 then began to raise her voice at us, saying the same spiel that she had said before she rang the police. My husband said let's just leave it and go and told her she was being really unprofessional and that it was wild that she had tried to get us arrested over a dish we didn't eat. As we left the restaurant, she shouted that we were pathetic and told us don't come back. I said, "Don't worry, we won't ever come back" (sort of laughing because I was so taken aback and shocked by her behaviour to customers). She then tried to mock me as we walked out of the restaurant. I'm posting this to let other people know that this could happen to them if they don't like a dish they've ordered at Koko. We obviously won't be coming back, and it's a real shame that this was how the restaurant handled this as it was our first time eating there. It could have been sorted really easily, but that's not how it played out, unfortunately, and we ended up having a horrible time when we wanted to go for a nice meal together. I've attached a picture of the end of our meal, showing that my husband didn't touch his food. Thanks

Lovely late lunch at the Herbarium squeezed in around meetings. Delicious longevity bowl and berry tea, lovely place to do some work, and staff were thoughtful and attentive.

If you want to go to the Italy without leaving the Britain, Buccelli's is that place. Fantastic atmosphere and delicious food being prepared while you enjoying your drink. The view through front window is remarkable too. Despite the fact it is in the centre of Lancaster city, surprisingly is similar to the narrow streets in southern european towns.