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Eating and Drinking in Luton, Bedfordshire*

Luton, Bedfordshire Pubs, Cafes, Coffee Shops and Restaurants

Food

• Go to Bury Park for the best smelling and tasting food (Fried Chicken). Its got bad reputation but thats cos of the people who dont live there or go there cos they're too scared of it.
• Blossom Garden on Marsh Road - always very good food and ALWAYS a long wait
• the kebab takeaway outside wauluds highrise mind the piss if the winds in the wrong direction it spoils the flavour of his chilli source
• Good Earth chinese takeaway on Granville Road near the football is without doubt the cheapest in the world. The unspoken rule with it's fellow customers is: Don't tell them they're half the price of anywhere else! I don't think they even realise.
• Brannigans, White House and The Newt and Cucumber are the best for pub food. Also Luton is home to numerous chicken, pizza, chinese and curry take aways.
• Efeler Kebab in the town centre, pukka after a few beers.
• India Tandori Garden - Wellington Street (well it was six years ago!)
• Bury Park has a wide range of take aways but is a hot-spot of inter-religous tension with black cars with blacked-out windows.
• There is a cyber cafe in Luton town centre - The Hard Drive Cafe at 16 King Street.
• I think that the best quality fish and chips in the town, bar none, is available from Colin and Rita's, in Tavistock Street.
• The chippy beside the Uni is great... and so is the food in The Rat and Carrot & the Newt.

Pubs

• The Bedfordshire Yeoman on Dallow Road. Clientelle have seen better days, scary landlady but take a trip there well worth it for the stories to tell your friends the next day.
• Only available for under age drinkers
• purley tavern watch your back someone might knife you for your trainers
• Most depressing pub, the one on Dallow rd, and it's the only pub in the area
• Eddie's Bar, fantastic watering hole for most of Luton's Irish population which single-handedly stopped the extension of the railway station (and has all the press cuttings to prove it!)
• Little South Luton locals.
• At the Market Hill end of town, Yates'Wine Lodge and The Dog and Donut (previously the Rat and Carrot)are the best, at the other end, Brannigans and somewhere in between, The Newt and Cucumber
• yates,cork and bull,the tap,pitchers,railway tavern,conway arms last two good if you req gear
• All the pubs in Luton are essentially exactly the same. LOUD DANCE MUSIC, Pretty Girls and violent pissed up physco's everwhere.
• Fedora and Firkin, Chapel Street. Brews its own beer on the premises. Two Brewers, Dumfries Street. Bohemian atmosphere!
• Luton has a great selecttion of pubs and clubs to rival big cities like London. The best pub to visit before your big night out is The Newt and Cucumber in King Street. You could also try The Brewery Tap.

Cafes and Coffee Shops

• Greenfields - well worth the little bit extra, try the omelettes and milk shakes
• greenfields no its nothing to do with me the name is a coincidence honest
• Wouldn't recommend any of the town centre ones.There's one run by a Man U fan on Manor Road.I tried to be as friendly as i could, being new to the area, but the bloke was a bit of a tosser. The food was fucking awful too!

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Last updated: 2007-10-06