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Restaurant review: Lunch at The Chinese Buffet

For a small city Preston has its fair share of Chinese restaurants. The huge yearly intake of Chinese students, said to be around 2 000, at the local university probably has something to do with it. A relative newcomer is The Chinese Buffet on Friargate in Preston, one of the latest of six Chinese Buffets in the North of England to be opened by Partner [...]

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Meat

Meat @ the Factory meats Preston

You may have noticed a bright yellow advertisement balloon over Preston today with the word MEAT highlighted on the side and wondered what it was. Apologies to vegetarians but today is the opening (or re-opening) of Meat @ the Factory in the city. The newly refurbished store on Elliott Street in Preston boasts restaurant quality food at factory prices. I had to go along and [...]

86 days ago by
Burger

Lancashire Council of Mosques urges boycott of school meals

  In a press release issued today the The Lancashire Council of Mosques (LCM) has sent out an urgent call to all Muslims of Lancashire not to touch school meals provided by The Lancashire  County Council (LCC) The LCM Halal Sub Group has called for an immediate boycott of all meals at schools that have not been certified by themselves. The press release says: ‘In an [...]

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The Hidden Gem: Grand Opening 1st March

In these trouble economic times with retail stores seemingly closing on a weekly basis it is encouraging to see a new business trying to crack the market in Preston. Welcome to The Hidden Gem, opening 1 March 2013. The new Hidden Gem restaurant, occupying the site of the former Marietta and Persian Palace restaurants, is located next door to Rumes Bar & Nightclub on Church [...]

88 days ago by
dominos

UCLan student is Fastest Pizza Eater 2013

Last night a Champion was crowned  the University of Central Lancashire’s (UCLan) fastest pizza eater! Robert Cowan, with a time of 2:26, won FREE PIZZA for the rest of term. Domino’s Pizza set-up the competition staged at the Source Bar in Preston. The aim was to find the fastest pizza eaters UCLan has to offer to crown as Domino’s Fastest Pizza Eater 2013! Contestants competed in [...]

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Lancashire Market returns to Preston for Easter

This Easter sees the return of the Lancashire Market following the success of the food market held at Christmas, which official figures show an attendance of 77,400 people. On Saturday 30th March, Preston will once again become home to some of Lancashire’s finest local produce and will see new and old Lancashire producers offering the finest in food, drink and crafts including Lula Blue, Strongs [...]

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