Great Taste

England's Northwest is a region with a passion for great food and quality produce, a range of top class restaurants and leading chefs. From shopping for local specialities at rural farmers markets to fine dining at cosmopolitan city-centre restaurants, England's Northwest is home to a delicious range of speciality foods as diverse as the region itself.

There are so many mouth-watering local delicacies that you'll be spoilt for choice. Traditional dishes like Lancashire Hotpot will remind you of how food should be whilst Southport potted shrimps and Cumberland Sausages are made to time-tested recipes handed down through the generations.

Our regional fare spreads well beyond traditional dishes; from ostrich meat to herbal punch, you'll find plenty of foods that have been grown, reared, caught, brewed, pickled, baked or smoked in England's Northwest.

Eat out at a Michelin Star restaurant or buy your own ingredients at one of the many Food Festivals held across the region every year. With a host of tastings, seminars and cookery demonstrations by popular celebrity chefs, they're full of inspirational ideas.

With so many mouth-watering local delicacies both traditional and new and a whole host of fantastic cafes and restaurants, you could easily eat and drink your way around England’s Northwest, several times.

Things To Do

Manchester Food and Drink Festival

Nantwich Food Festival

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Visit the Taste Lancashire 08 website for more ideas