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Eating and Drinking in Market Harborough, Leicestershire*

Market Harborough, Leicestershire Pubs, Cafes, Coffee Shops and Restaurants

Food

• The Old Barn, just outside Harborough in Glooston. Top nosh in a friendly country pub - Great Chef! (Phil)
• The Shaghorika has an excellent menu and is the most established and best curry house in the area. The Service is excellent and you feel you are getting a real taste of India. The Pizzaman continues to thrive and is great for an inexpensive treat.
• The Shagorika does an exceptional Good indian,st marys road.Theres a mexican on the square and a french resturant Elliots,but you cant raise your voice above a wisper.Peace is a very good chinese restuarant,and service is ace.
• OH so many Dail a curry from the Royal Bengal spend a £10 and get loads of free stuff. Lots of chips shops and chinese's Sugar loaf good for cheap student food as well.
• Try the barbeque chicken focaccia roll from wesses on the square
• ABBEY COTTAGE- EXCELLANT CANTONESE RESTAURANT/TAKE AWAY
• Han - definitely the best. Pizzaman - excellent food (not just pizzas!)
• Han-the best oriental dishes in the country
• Only fast food outlet is KFC. Restaurants/cafes include Auldwinkles and the Baptist cafe. Pizzaland is great for eating in and ordering out. Plenty of Fish and Chip shops, the best probably being Caspian and Blue Wave.
• no mcdonalds, but a KFC and a few chip shops
• Joules eating house at the top of the High street, a bit pricey but great food!
• We have a lovely Italian on Abbey St, but you find its very popular so phone in advance is good advice. Also four Indian Restaurants, a couple of Pizza places, and the two lovely restaurants at the Three Swans and the Angel Hotel , plus many others dotted around the town.

Pubs

• The Peacock is now out of fashion with revellers going to the cheap and gossip filled Sugarloaf. The Square is small but very modernish for a town of Harborough's reputation. The Freemasons alas is with us no longer and is replaced by a very Gay sounding 'The Village' which is reputedly a sports bar! If you intend to go out in this town check out the Kings Head and the Three Swans.
• Sugarloaf, Weatherspoons pub = Cheap beer !
• The red cow serves original beers,but is something out of a american werewolf film.The three swans is a top hotel pub and is renowened for a spanish waiter haunting the pub after he was burned alive,so thee ledgend has it.
• The town won't be the same again since the six packs closed but theres still plenty of pubs to make it a good night out. No dress codes at any as far as i know.
• Red Cow - half way up High St. Small, scruffy but good.
• Plenty including the Cherry Tree, Boscoes, and the Bell.
• Various types in MH - The Peacock is the liveliest. The Cherry Tree, just outside the town centre is an old style pub - whitewashed exterior walls, thatched roof etc. Beer is good here.
• New pub The Sugarloaf for good cheap bear and spirits.
• The Peacock is well worth a visit...at the corner of St.Mary's Road and Northampton Rd.
• Loads of pubs , about 15 , not bad for a town this size. Why not organize a family outing trying to cover them all in one day.

Cafes and Coffee Shops

• Aldwins used to be very high quality, but may have gone downhill, have not dined there for a few years. Aldwinkles used to pay workers £1.50hr which propably explains the impolite temperament of the staff! The Square is good for a coffee. Elliots screams middle Class and I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole.
• The Square Bar in the day serves coffees food etc.In the summer they have a summer spot outside right on the square with tables and chairs,very sheek and relaxing.Joules up the high street has a rear coffee garden which also does good food.
• Shaws resturant/wine bar/cafe is great really friendly bloke who runs it. Tends to get over looked cos its only a small place between the swans and the Angel.
• "the square"- minimalistic, and groovy
• "THE SQUARE" IN THE SQUARE- REALLY MODERN BAR/CAFE
• DO NOT go to ALDIN'S.THE FOOD IS WASTE PRODUCE. ALSO, ALDWINKLE'S STAFF ARE evil...

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