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Eating and Drinking in Chesham, Buckinghamshire*

Chesham, Buckinghamshire Pubs, Cafes, Coffee Shops and Restaurants

Food

• Tara's Thai above the Queens Head is lovely. Also the Black Horse and the Crown in Ley Hill do nice food. For Curry, Chatgoan is best for takeaway and Chesham Tandoori for eat in. Mighty Bite does fantastic kebabs, pizza, everything. We need an Italian in Chesham though!!
• well there is that "global Cafe" but i wouldn't know what it's likebecause the facists that run it won't let children in!!!
• When ever me & my mates go out & want something to eat, we avoid McDonalds, Burger Inn is the place to go!!! The people that work there are so funny, they're trying to learn our names, they called Gabby - Cabbage & cos theres an Emma & a Gabby, they moulded the names together and called me Gemma
• The new sainsburys sucks! Go to Waitrose!
• Burger Inn is brill. Great milkshakes and thick chips. Also my litle bro once dropped a £20 in there and they handed it back to him when he next went in about a month later. (We live 5 miles away in Little Chalfont so don't go there that often)
• LAST POST AND RED LION DONT DO BAD CHEAP FOOD BEFORE A NIGHT ON THE BEER,ALSO TRY CROWN AT LEY HILL
• curries, kebabs, curries.... er there might be a pizza place too.
• Texas Fried Chicken.. REALLY dodgy no?
• McD's and that is about it!
• Burger Inn. Bigger, better and tastier than MacDonald's. Unbeatable kebabs. Better than anywhere in the English speaking world.
• Annes Fish shop 1 severalls Avenue Great fish and chips. Realy friendly and quick service.
• Waitrose
• The best food in Chesham is the hommous from Waitrose. Also Sainsbury's, Berkely Stores (Chartridge Lane) just normal stuff. McDonalds.

Pubs

• I don't like any of the pubs in town. Either full of smelly old men or are characterless like The Last Post and the Red Lion. At least the post is cheap though. Go out to the country pubs for more atmosphere. The Crown has some great live music, out on the green in the summer.
• If you want to go to a real pub serving real beer, that isn't a 3 mile drive away then take a stroll in to Chesham Old Town to the Queens Head. This is a warm and very friendly pub with no apprehensions and definitely no 'townies'. The pub serves Thai food all day every day, even if the pub signs say 12 - 2 and 6 - 9. There is also a full restaurant attached upstairs and the bar food is superb. There is a small problem with the doors as they tend to worry the first timer in to thinking they are stuck in (oh no!!), but it is purely the fact that you need to pull rather than push to get out. After a few everyone forgets. There are no fresh faces here, apart from those that have fallen in the river Ches that runs behind the pub by the car park.
• Chesham is just full of Charity Shops, and old man pubs!
• The Global Cafe Bar aka the global. Not too bad on a friday or saturady night - but dont look ant anyones boyfriend! Loads of pop music and a dancefloor to groove on. People attending should preferably wear not very many clothes to fit in with the Chesham'ites.
• George and Dragon is probably the friendliest place with the best lunchtime food
• Red Lion. Packed with those seeking council accomodation.
• LAST POST- CHEAP DRINKS BUT NO ATMOSPHERE(ALSO NO DOORLOCK IN BLOKES TOLIET), RED LION- GREAT PUB EVERYTHING U NEED AND BEAUTIFUL BAR LADIES, GOERGE AND DRAGON- GOOD ESPECIALLY ON SATURDAY LUNCH AND AFTERNOON RECOVERING FROM STAGES,
• The best pub in Chesham has got to be the Red Lion, much nicer now it's had a refit.
• loads
• I wouldn't recommend the Unicorn to my worst enemy. I have been there three times in six years. The last occasion was Christmas 1998 and through the fog of several pints the place looked almost habitable.
• Black Cat ,Lycrome Rd, Lye Green... Now under new Management (from June 2000) Mike, Stuart & Linda. Big Garden, enclosed, child friendly. Good value Sunday Lunch! Lots of good country pubs within 2mile radius of town.
• ALL CRAP!!!! Try going to the Eagle at Ashley Green. Lovely Country Pub, or try The Bell in Bovingdon on a Sunday Evening. Great LIVE groups most weekends, and its FREE!
• The Last Post! Always asks 50 year olds for I.D, but if you're wearing a skirt up to your arse and an inch of foundation, with the obvious intention of perusing Stages ("The Club" to locals) later on, come on in and drink as many alcopops as you can afford with this weeks pocket money.
• Some of those too. High street pubs OK, just don't look at anyone's bird.
• rough 'n ready confused townies pubs...move a few miles out for nicer country pubs
• The George and Dragon in the High Street has a priest hole in the chimney on the first floor.
• The only good things about Chesham are the pubs.

Cafes and Coffee Shops

• The French cafe on the high street does nice baguettes, as does Darvells bakery further down. Brown Sugar by the bus stop does nice food as well, typival cafe stuff. A Nero coffeeshop has just opened as well.
• Brown Sugar near the bus stop in the centre... best fry-up you could possibly hope for!
• The new Elgiva cafe sells cake!
• 2 or 3 .. all small.. shit coffee in chesham... get some intant from sainsburies.. much better!
• Seem to open up and close down faster than the time it takes for your coffee to come.

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