UK PUBS AND FOOD — 2026 GUIDES
Pick the city.
Find the pub.
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Restaurants, historic pubs, Sunday roasts, fish and chips and local dishes in UK cities, with sources you can check.
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EAT & DRINK22 towns and citiesEngland, Scotland and Northern Ireland, York to Kirkwall
359 food and pub guidesRestaurants, roasts, chippies, breakfasts and local dishes
99 pub guidesHistoric inns, gastropubs, breweries and beer gardens
113 landmark pagesNamed pubs, markets and food institutions, one page each
ENGLAND · SCOTLAND · NORTHERN IRELAND
Where to eat and drink, town by town.
Pick a town. Each restaurants overview leads to its pubs, Sunday roasts, fish and chips, breakfasts and local dishes, and to the named pubs and food landmarks worth a page of their own.
Northern England
Yorkshire puddings in York, Scouse in Liverpool, Tyneside pubs in Newcastle, a Leeds brewery scene, the walled city of Chester, Lake District inns at Keswick and harbour chippies in Whitby.
English Food
The Midlands
Balti houses and canal-side pubs in Birmingham, Nottingham’s cave-cut inns and the theatre-town tables of Stratford-upon-Avon.
Traditional British Food
Southern England
College-town pubs in Cambridge, the seafront and North Laine in Brighton, cathedral-city Canterbury and the ferry port of Dover.
Fish and Chips in the United Kingdom
Scotland
Butteries in Aberdeen, haggis and whisky bars in Inverness, Stirling below its castle, west-coast seafood in Oban, Fort William under Ben Nevis, Ullapool on Loch Broom and Kirkwall on Orkney.
Scottish Food
Northern Ireland
Derry inside its walls: Ulster fry breakfasts, traditional bars and a growing restaurant scene by the Foyle.
Northern Irish Food
THE SUNDAY ROAST TRAIL
Roast, pint, and a table booked.
Which pubs take bookings, when the kitchen stops serving and what to check before you set out: each town’s roast guide names the places and the trade-offs, from city carveries to Lake District inns.
PLAN BY APPETITE
Pubs, roasts, chippies and the full breakfast.
The same questions answered in every town, so you can set Whitby’s fish and chips against Dover’s, or York’s historic pubs against Chester’s.
Where to Eat
Where to eat across Aberdeen, Birmingham, Brighton, Cambridge, Chester, Inverness, Derry and more, covering cheap lunches, seafood, curry and fine dining.
All 118 guidesPubs & Real Ale
Cask ale, historic inns and beer gardens from Aberdeen and Inverness to Leeds, Chester and Canterbury, with breweries, taprooms and honest local advice.
All 118 guidesSunday Roasts
Sunday roasts in Aberdeen, York, Brighton and more: how booking, carveries, set lunches and short Sunday hours shape a proper roast lunch in these cities.
All 21 guidesFish & Chips
Fish and chips by city, from Whitby and York to Oban and Kirkwall: sit-in versus takeaway, haddock or cod, mushy peas, scraps and how to judge a good chippy.
All 22 guidesBreakfast & Brunch
Breakfast and brunch across Aberdeen, Birmingham, Brighton, York and more: full Scottish plates, bottomless sittings, café mornings and bakery stops.
All 40 guidesBritish Dishes
From Scouse in Liverpool and balti in Birmingham to haggis in Inverness, find out what to order in each city and which local dishes are worth planning around.
All 35 guidesScottish Food & Whisky
Haggis, Cullen skink, haddock suppers and single malts: what Scottish food and whisky taste like, and how to visit Speyside and other distilleries.
All 5 guidesBEFORE YOU ORDER
Pub customs and the dishes worth knowing.
How ordering at the bar works, what cask ale and bitter are, and the classic plates from the full English to haggis, explained once for the whole country.
Pub know-how
British dishes
Scotland’s table
ONE PLACE, ONE PAGE
The pubs and food landmarks by name.
Pubs & food landmarks
113 pages · 19 townsHistoric inns, covered markets, bakeries and chip shops with a story: where each one is, what to order, when to go and what is nearby.
- Aberdeen 6
- Birmingham 7
- Brighton 7
- Cambridge 8
- Canterbury 6
- Chester 6
- Fort William 5
- Inverness 5
- Keswick 5
- Kirkwall 8
- Leeds 5
- Liverpool 8
- Newcastle 7
- Nottingham 6
- Oban 3
- Stirling 4
- Stratford-upon-Avon 4
- Whitby 7
- York 6
Sourced guides
Factual claims carry a link to the source beside them. Roast & Pint Editorial is a publication byline.
Dated and updated
Each guide shows when it was published and last updated.
Check before you book
Confirm current dates, prices and booking terms with the operator.
Check the sources
Look for article-level citations beside descriptions, prices and practical details.
Planning FAQ
A few things you might be wondering.
How to use our guides, read the sources and plan where to eat.