Canterbury Restaurant Guide

Pizza Express - Canterbury

Pizza Express remains a hugely popular bedrock of casual eating. Its popularity is testimony to the fact that across the country, they have restaurants where you will always be guaranteed a good nosh, with children's tastes being well catered for.

• Address: 4 Best Lane, Canterbury, CT1 2JB (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Pizza & Pasta
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £15.00, Dinner: £21.00

Prezzo - Canterbury

Prezzo has been delighting diners for over seven years, and this Italian restaurant chain has since been able to expand throughout large parts of England with well over a hundred outlets. Interestingly, the company seeks to restore either impressive buildings or ones of local interest.

• Address: 29 High Street, Canterbury, CT1 2AZ (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Italian
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £30.00

Red Lion Inn, The

• Address: Canterbury Road, Wingham, Canterbury, CT3 1BB (Map)
• Cuisine(s): English
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £30.00

Restaurant at Ebury Hotel

A handsome Victorian building built in the 1840's, the Ebury offers British food with a strong French influence. A typical starter might be a warm salad of chicken livers, bacon and artichoke. A pan-fried pork escalope served with apples and calvados from the hands of Chef Jean-Pierre Carol is likely to be an uplifting experience, particularly if followed by the chocolate torte served with a crème anglicise.

• Address: 65-67 New Dover Road, Canterbury, CT1 3DX (Map)
• Cuisine(s): English, French
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £32.00

Restaurant at The White Horse Inn

How often do you glimpse a pub or restaurant and instinctively know that it's going to be all right before you even go inside? Of such an ilk is The White Horse at Bridge, near Canterbury. So does that let me off the hook - no, it does not, because some places are a good deal more than 'alright', and yes, you've guessed.

• Address: 53 High Street, Bridge, Canterbury, CT4 5LA (Map)
• Cuisine(s): British, Seafood
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £16.00, Dinner: £35.00

Strada - Canterbury

Strada describes itself as 'a group of stylish, contemporary Italian restaurants, serving good quality, simple and freshly prepared dishes'. The statement sums up what this chain of sixty plus restaurants offers to people looking for Italian food.

• Address: 10-11 Sun Street, Canterbury, CT1 2HX (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Italian, Modern, Restaurant
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £10.00, Dinner: £25.00

Wagamama - Canterbury

Things seem to move fast at Wagamama - the Asian inspired, noodle restaurant chain that was started in 1992. As soon as you decide what you want to eat, your order is taken via a PDA, and wirelessly networked to the kitchen, so it can be made fresh and served right after.

• Address: 7-11 Longmarket, Canterbury, CT1 2JS (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Japanese
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £15.00, Dinner: £22.00

Zizzi - Canterbury

It is not an easy task to maintain impeccable standards and uniformity of taste across a chain of over two hundred outlets, yet that is just the distinction that the ASK group has achieved. Their restaurants, with the brand names of ASK and Zizzi, serve authentic Italian food at reasonable prices, in a warm and friendly ambience.

• Address: 53 St Peter Street, Canterbury, CT1 2BE (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Pizza & Pasta
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £20.00