Belfast
On the 1st floor of the upmarket Avoca department store, this airy cafe serves dishes such as salt-and-pepper calamari, warm confit duck and house…
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Nottingham
The best of the glamorous modern Indian restaurants on Maid Marian Way, Memsaab serves aromatic classics from the Subcontinent in dinner-date-friendly…
Dorset
The perfect place to stock up for a beach picnic: crab cakes, old-school potato salad, and gourmet sandwiches – plus corking coffee and gooey chocolate…
Skye
A cute little wooden shed at Armadale pier has some outdoor tables and serves good seafood salads, pizzas, fish and chips, and coffee. You can sit in or…
Norfolk
Flavour-packed, home-smoked fish, shellfish and cured meats to take away. Treats include dressed crab (from £5), plus packs of smoked prawns (£7) and…
Snowdonia National Park (Parc Cenedlaethol Eryri)
Barmouth's best chip shop can be spotted by the queues out the door. Grab your crispy battered haddock and your perfectly fried chips and go picnic on the…
Skye
A farm shop selling fresh local seafood to take away, including oysters (£1.25 each), cooked mussels and scallops, lobster and chips, and seafood platters.
Plymouth
A long-established eatery with fish so fresh it's only just stopped flapping. Treats include scallops sautéed in garlic butter and succulent grilled skate.
Notting Hill & West London
For fine helpings of London's classic working-class staples: pie, mash and liquor (parsley sauce) in a standard-issue, no-nonsense white-tile-wall space.
Parc Cenedlaethol Bannau Brycheiniog
This cute combined bookshop and cafe serves excellent home baking, sandwiches, soup and snacks. It's located in an endearingly wonky olive-green cottage.
Counties Down & Armagh
In the courtyard at the main entrance to Slieve Gullion Forest Park, this cafe – part of a local chain – serves soups, sandwiches, quiches and cakes.
Exmoor National Park
An award-winning chippy set a few steps from the shore. Take away and eat on the rough-sand beach, or dine inside within the cheap 'n' cheerful cafe.
Skye
Sells groceries and takeaway soup and sandwiches – try the 'Elgolian', a bread roll filled with locally caught squat lobster and seafood sauce.
Glasgow
Tasty sushi, fried noodles and ramen soups among other Asian dishes in a clean, contemporary setting. It's a friendly spot with helpful service.
Outer Hebrides
The cafe in the Callanish visitor centre serves a range of homemade soups, sandwiches and hot lunch specials, as well as good coffee and cake.
The Cairngorms
Coffee shop serving the finest and freshest of local produce, amid a homewares store stuffed with quality furniture, accessories and gifts.
Skye
This hotel bar serves delicious, gourmet-style bar meals – try the haddock in beer batter, venison burger or traditional shepherds pie.
Swansea, The Gower & Carmarthenshire
This chic and friendly little bistro excels at well-priced and delicious set dinners. Expect lots of Welsh produce, lovingly cooked.
The Midlands & the Marches
The top pick along Leicester's Indian restaurant–lined Golden Mile is 1970s-established Bobby's, serving all-vegetarian classics.
Bristol
Top-notch coffee and cake served from a lovingly converted Piaggio Ape parked up near the Clifton Suspension Bridge visitor centre.
The Cairngorms
Taste is a relaxed little cafe which has armchairs in the window bays, and serves homemade soups, sandwiches, coffee and cakes.
Exmoor National Park
A gift shop, a deli and a tearoom where you can buy a hiking map, peruse the preserves then sip an espresso on the tiny patio.
Scotland
The delightful Buttercup Cafe is an ideal place to break for coffee and cake, or a lunchtime baked potato, salad or sandwich.
Dumfries & Galloway
Invisible from above, thanks to its turf roof, this clifftop cafe offers spectacular vistas, great cakes and tasty savouries.
Castle Deli @ Radcliffe Butchers
Isle of Man
Decent sandwiches with meats from the butcher next door. The selection of cheeses and fish is pretty good too.
Bath
Excellent farmers market held on Saturday mornings inside Green Park Station – a disused railway hall.
The Cairngorms
A cosy coffee house with an open fire, specialising in home baking and mouth-watering homemade burgers.
Isle of Man
Tasty pizzas and good pasta dishes at this fine Italian restaurant, originally established in 1944.
The Cairngorms
Serves light lunches and bistro dinners made with fresh Highland lamb, beef, venison and salmon.
Dorset
Award-winning, hand-patted, juicy, chargrilled burgers, made mostly from Dorset produce.
Swansea, The Gower & Carmarthenshire
A pretty, bright-blue pub with good food, tidy bedrooms and a traditional interior.
Snowdonia National Park (Parc Cenedlaethol Eryri)
The Eco Caffe is great for home-cooked food, such as beef-bone and vegetable soup.
Swansea, The Gower & Carmarthenshire
A popular branch of a Swansea institution.
Dartmoor National Park
A rambling, thatched Dartmoor longhouse serving classy, locally sourced pub food.
Oxford
Proudly claiming to be Europe’s oldest continually working coffee house, dating back to the 1650s, this family-run central cafe preserves many original…
Oxford
To eat or drink before or after a journey, this contemporary cafe-bar, in a former marmalade factory, is your best bet near the station. Food ranges from…
Cardiff
A spin-off by Chapter Arts Centre in Canton, this self-proclaimed 'culture cafe' offers tasty homemade food using local quality ingredients and a space to…
Leith
Taking over Dock Place every Saturday, this small but bustling market is beloved by Leith locals selling everything from gourmet dog treats to fine…
Cardiff
With requisite mismatched and recycled furniture, this hipsterish corner cafe serves craft beer into the early evening. Food is limited to the likes of…
