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Eating and Drinking in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire*

Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire Pubs, Cafes, Coffee Shops and Restaurants

Food

• Shaffers Curry house, food cooked on a concrete bunker resemberling Saddam's hideout! Take my advice go to anywhere else even Mc D's. Runny curry no way!
• Kebab shops and more Kebab shops, and a place that sells oatcakes.
• oatcake annies in fenton is lovely - the best chip shop in britain is 'may street chippy' on park estate
• portofinos is an itallian experience!
• Mc Donalds, Burger King etc
• Mrs Ts oatcake shop in Northwood is the business!
• piccadilly's pizza
• Oatcakes - they are so famous they are on the net - but then what isn't? See Thisisstaffordshire.com.
• Try - Bonaparts in Fenton - god what a sh** hole that is.
• Maccie D's in Festival Park and the Potteries shopping centre.
• I've moved away from Stoke - 13 years ago but I still think about Wrights Pies & oatcakes. And whatever happened to Leons chipshop in Kidsgrove?
• [But what happened to the Pikelets, then?] I was born in Fenton, Stoke-On-Trent 59 years ago. I have been in the states 30 years (Piscataway, NJ) soon to retire to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. I remember Pikelets and oatcakes. There was a shop at the end of our street where we would go on a Sunday morning to pick them up and eat with our bacon and eggs.
• The usual.

Pubs

• Satchmo's is a really chilled out bar. They play all the old Jazzy stuff, low lights, cool chicks and nice staff. High time I say!
• Blackfriar , newcastle mid 20s to early 30s crowd lots of ex studes rock discos fri and sat, fri a lot more mellow tho try it youll like it
• any pub can be seenwith underage gruffnuts pissed off a pint and seen with an under age slut trying to look hard but their hair justs makes it laughable!
• Fluid has an ace atmosphere, but its too packed...ITS TOO PACKED WALTERS CANT YOU SEE!
• the miners arms in milton is wicked. i love weatherspoons aswell
• rosie's in hanley and fluid rock!
• THE SHITTISH DRINKING TOWN IN ENGLAND
• The Plough In Kidsgrove.
• Corner cupboard has a good mixture of students and locals and they have a big screen for the footie.
• once again, rigger in newcastle is fab
• The Roe buck - bottom (south end ) of Leek Road / Winton Terrace, Shelton (just)
• Coolist pub in SOT is the greyhound in Penkhull
• Crown and Cushion for some 70 year olds.
• The Firkin in Hanley. The same as any other Firkin pub. However, the one in Stoke gives you up to 15 quid cashback - dead useful.
• The Woodman in now called: Scruffy Murphy's. Absolutely pants in comparison to the Woodman. They don't have a juke-box, and play either a tape with "U sure do" by Strike or Clock's "Axel F" on it or some Irish stuff, all the time. The beer isn't bad, but Stoke isn't Ireland - surely the best place to go to experience an Irish pub is Ireland?
• The Dew Drop. Ask for double vodkas - it's cheaper in the long run. Known for crap murals upstairs. Has quiz nights and DJs and that. Definitely the best pub in Hanley since the unfortunate demise of the Woodman.
• The Albion. Always seems to be full of winos. Well known for revolving doors, which, once the novelty wears off, become really annoying - you can't get out as quick as you would like.
• Good bars include the Foyer and Rosie O'Brians.
• The Dew Drop - excellent jeans pub unlike Yates'; both in Hanley.
• Yates' Wine Bar (although it's a pub).
• In Newcastle there is Gio's and Stones, both open all day until late, as well as all the pubs, including the ex-Slug & Lettuce now the Farrow and Firkin which is always heaving on the weekend.
• Dread Heads coffee shop also opened in 1995, and is an excellent place to chill out before and after a club.
  Shite, and full of shite people. An ex-dread-header is doing 40 in a Thai jail at the moment.
• Rocker-type pubs: The Sutherland Arms, Newcastle - The Ale House, Newcastle. Both shite. The resident DJ, Bone, once got shot in the town centre.
• The Stage Door in Hanley (next to The Stage venue) is a good 'rockers' type pub, and there are many new wine bars.
  The Stage Door is not a 'rockers' type pub, and never has been. It's not good either! 'Shite' would be a reasonable word to use for its description.

Cafes and Coffee Shops

• Jumpz internet cafe in stoke just cos there is never anyone in it!
• Are you JOKING?
• CHICAGO ROCK.
• New and trendy cafe bars opening all the time. Around Hanley there are the places you just have to open your eyes. New theatre modern bars next to the REgent
• Don't go Hanley bus station unless you want to be poisoned or die very prematurely from all the passive smoking! Spencers is a sandwich bar in Hanley and is very good and not too expensive!
• neat little cybercafe on the kingsway in stoke... pretty cheap and a nice relaxing atmosphere.... go see it :) think the website will be up pretty soon also... :)
• Not really, they're mostly pubs. The only one I can think of is the blues bar.
• None that are open on Sundays for the hungover looking for a greasy spoon.
• reubins in newcastle,a fantastic bagel bar!
• NO
• Forget cool - Munchies caf is cheap, a bit wierd but serves brilliant food including great oatcakes.
• Terrific lack of these in Newcastle where I come from, although as we all know there's plenty of pubs to make money out of the skirts and shirts. There's an Italian caff off the Ironmarket that does a good breakfast, but as for 24-hour vege cafes (like Insomnia in Glasgow), none.

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Last updated: 2008-03-18