My family and I are from the States. We reserved a wonderful table. The manager and waitress were…read moreexceptionally kind, wonderful and knowledgeable about their menu. The restaurant itself is a vibe! We can easily eat here for any meal! We ordered these starters: goat cheese bon bons, stuffed mushrooms, pork belly, and doughnut. ALL WERE FANTASTIC. My personal favorite was the goat cheese bon bons. (We began eating so no photos of the starters) For entrees, we ordered the gnocchi, sirloin steak, chicken Kiev, katsu chicken and beef pie. Everything was DELICIOUS. If you're in Lancaster, definitely recommend this restaurant! Honestly some of the best food we had while in the UK!

Good value for food and a bit exotic. A good daytime atmosphere. Welcoming staffread more

I asked a lady who dines out three times a week in Lancaster to choose a restaurant for our first…read moremeet-up. The Sun Café Restaurant was her choice, and this place is currently also ranked 3rd on Tripadvisor for restaurants in Lancaster. Although I hadn't said it in so many words, my wish was for a venue special enough to make her feel like a princess but still relaxed enough for us to get to know each other. The Sun Café Restaurant was the perfect venue. From a quick walk around in the rain, Lancaster looks to be a pretty little town with some narrow cobbled backstreet that reminded me of Edinburgh. The Sun is situated on one of these backstreet. The décor and ambience of speak of relaxed quality and of The Sun having put roots down a while ago. From the website, The Sun looks to be run by a very hands on chef-patron. From the outside, I found it very inviting, especially the detailing on the custom wrought metal. Inside, it is definitely a smart restaurant and I am guessing that the 'Café' in the name refers either to an earlier incarnation of this place or else serves to alert potential customers that The Sun also offers breakfast, lunch and coffee much more informally. Our evening played out beautifully - from 6.30pm, we enjoyed the peace of the place to ourselves for the first hour and after that it was just nicely busy for a weekday evening. With the food, I have to admit to not have been that hungry and also absorbed in my highly charismatic companion! We were both impressed by the presentation of her main which was pancake parcels filled with spinach and cheese, the parcels being bags tied at the neck with a chive or similar! I had a starter with a fancy name that was basically a small portion of ratatouille surrounded with a sweet and sour sauce based on pureed butternut squash. As sustenance, mine would have left something to be desired, but in terms of giving this keen cook taste sensations and a velvety texture that I couldn't imagine coming up with at home, I was pleased. My companion had some indulgent chocolate brownie dessert which seemed to hit the spot. The white wine was also pronounced satisfactory. Service was really good - our elegant blonde waitress made us feel at home but special. Rounding up with a tip, the bill came to £35 for one vegetarian main, one starter, one pudding and two glasses of wine. All in, The Sun is a great venue. Although not cheap, I felt our meal was really 'grandstanding' it for a special occasion, without breaking the bank. My companion tells me mains here are reasonably sized, although starters apparently can be on the small side. But whereas I might even grudge the cost of a Pizza Express meal, I didn't feel that at all here. If you live locally, the breakfast and lunch menus are totally different and priced much lower, so that is something The Sun can do for you on a budget! My home patch for dining out right now is Manchester. I've only tried a couple of Modern British/European restaurants that would compare to The Sun (Thomas in the Northern Quarter, Bistro West 156 in Didsbury, but for an all-round dining experience and imaginative vegetarian options, The Sun is definitely better IMO.

The food here is so delicious that I want to cry with every forkful. No joke!…read more Last time I was at the Sun Cafe, we'd had a NYE gathering with about 11 people. They were happy to reserve space for us and despite our group being pretty loud and even a little rowdy at times, the staff was all smiles and joking right alongside us. The owner, a delightfully smiley frenchman, came upstairs to personally serve some of the dishes. Each of us had ordered something different, plus a starter and a dessert, and there wasn't a single complaint out of anyone. They even brought us some party crackers, haha! I am pretty new in town but I hear from a lot of people that the brunch here is great and that the lunch specials are a good way to try out the menu without going broke. Saying that, I think the prices were really reasonable when we were there and I'd go back in a minute.

Do not let the size of this restuarant put you off. If you have an appetite for phenomenal steaks…read moreand kebabs, and I mean an appetite, then this is surely the best place to go in Lancaster (if not the North-West). The portions are GINORMOUS and cooked perfectly to your specification and the 'wonder sauce' (top secret recipe you know? lol) is...well, I'm drooling just thinking about it!!! To top off your main meal (and if you have room) can we recommend the home made sticky toffee pudding... ..... ....drool!!! Pricey but worth every single penny!!!

Situated in an magnificent period building the Chop House offers a simple menu that reflects the…read morehistory of "Chop Houses" from the 1700's. The menu is simple but diverse, but we felt the cuts of meat were of poor quality. I had a sirloin steak that claimed to be a 10 oz but looked closer to 7. Wifey had the fillet that tasted more like rump.. Both were a little on the tough side. No dessert to review but the starters get a similar marking. The mussels were weedy and several had either split shells or had failed to open. A high percentage to leave uneaten for obvious reasons. Staff were happy, smiley people and service was good I would not rush back but might give them another chance later.. 3 Stars for service, staff and the building. Would have made 4 if the food was that little bit better.

I was there with a couple of my friends because my British friends have been recommending this pub…read moreto us and we would love to check out a British pub. So we were there and we ordered several beers. Since all of us speak Chinese, we didn't really think it's necessary for us to speak English to each other. So we were chatting in Chinese (of course, we would love to speak English if someone local is interested in talking to us, trashing the Chinese government even). And this British woman came to us, saying "you are not supposed to speak in your language, you should speak English". I don't know what was wrong with me cuz I said "sorry" to her. Seriously, I don't think the same would happen to a group of French people speaking French to each other. I know people have been saying the Chinese only hang out with the Chinese, but they should understand that you can't blame it all on the Chinese. If it changes anything, I will speak Chinese with more pride in the future. Really bad experience, never going there again.

Nice pub in the heart of High Street Lancaster. We had British staple fish and chips. Lots of beer…read moreon tap but we had 0% Heineken. Ambiance is quintessential northern England.

Fairly standard town pub. We didn't dine but the food was in the budget price range, examples from…read morethe specials board included liver and onions £5.45 and stew and dumplings for a similar price. Soup £2.95 and desserts around £3.25. Beers included Wainwrights and Lancaster Bomber, my Wainwright's was smashing. An OK pub really but nothing out of the ordinary, nothing that would especially make me dash back there.