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Eating and Drinking in Corby, Northamptonshire*

Corby, Northamptonshire Pubs, Cafes, Coffee Shops and Restaurants

Food

• hilmi does a mean kebab at kebab kindom, just wot u need afta a shite nite at escape
• mcdonalds!!! up the town not near asda that is gross!!! kfc! which now i hav to walk a mile too now that they moved it! and changed it to a pizza shop when there is 1 rite next door!
• I have to admit to partaking of the famous "Corby Kebab" this is the mother of all kebabs from the house of chilli.
• hilmies minging kebab shop
• raffertys the kebabs taste like they're made of dog meat....mmmmm chunks of dog meat 'n' chilli sauce....but jonny wong's do a wicked malaysian chick hoooooooot
• Macdonalds (if u want to gawp at single mothers shouting at and slapping their kids around, while you eat of course)
• wouldn't touch Corby food with a 10 foot shitty stick!! You'd think people in Corby couldn't cook!!. There was a 50 yard queue at the chip shop the other day and they'd only been open 5 minutes.
• Nothing beats a kebab on friday and satuarday night after being out.
• Kingdom does the nicest Burgers. Mcdonalds makes me wanna shit all the time. KFC fillets have improved since the move. Taste of Chilli does a nice Donor and the infamous Corby kebab mine and any other piss heads pot of gold on a Friday night. There are a few pizza places but I never go in them.
• McDonalds and kfc couple of chip shops and the odd curry house in dodgy areas
• In the town thas all there is.
• Have to go outdside of corby to take kids for a nice meal
• If you like greasy fried food come to Corby..what the hell is a deep fried battered creme egg, I mean?!
• MC MC MC MC DONALDS
• pytchley court fish an a chip
• Exeter indian, location is bad but the food is really nice. Also Bombay Dynasty and The Red Fort where the waiters are friendly. The old white hart at Lyddington is really nice but not in Corby.
• MACCY D'S, KFC, littlewoods caf lol, american grill, loadsa chippy's (bets ones r Rafferty's and pytchley ct, but u can get lovely BATTERED MARS BARS, creme eggs at easter and mince pies :s at xmas at the one on beanfield.) loadsa chineses-Mr Chois is good and the Shajahan Indian on Rocky Road. OH! and Helena's cafe for a nice greasy fry up!
• "The Raj" in Kettering has failed in the attempted take over of Rockingham Road Indian, and to celebrate this from the 1st of May 2001 they will be offering "all you can eat for a fiver" meals.Fridays and Saturdays only
• The Greedy Pig Cafe - up near D&S Security @ Danny Howitts on Rockingham Rd - GREAT FOOD JUST TOO MUCH OF IT
• Gorgeous chicken jalfrezi at pytchly indian
• KETTERING - LEE GARDEN. Absoulutely excellent!! 10/10 Great food, nice decor, autentic staff!! Free Chinese Calendars at Xmas time. Sunday buffet - best meal for under a tenner
• raven hotel bombay dynasty
• Pytchley Court Chippy, the best Kebabs in the U.K
• McDonalds and KFC
• indian take away on rockinham road
• THE NEW FLAMES GRILL DOES GREAT BACON SARNIES WITH LOADS OF MAYO!!!!!
• Indian Restaurant Greenhill Rise, Chicken Tikka Masala is mmmmmmmmmmmm Great Friendly Waiters. Cheap food midweek.
• McDonalds, 'Hadleighs' does good Chips and curry, 'A Taste of Chille' does nice chips too, There is a few Kebab shops too, and Pizza places.
• Got plenty of that in Corby. The inherited Glaswegian diet has contributed to Corby being 10th worst place to live for males dying young. Deep fried Mars bars, greasy food, alcohol and cigarettes. Corby also sells more Irn Bru than anywhere in England, surpassing Blackpool in Summer. It is also in the Guiness Book of Records for the Largest Haggis ever made.
• McDonalds, No other places apart from Indians and Chinese
• McDonalds, loads of chip shops, American Grill...

Pubs

• Hazel Tree £1 a drink you cant go wrong
• the fisher, corby supporters, silver band
• i think that the bouncers down the village are absoulutly ace much better than the wankers b4. they are freindly and polite as well as georgous. Corby is a great nite out wot ever you say
• The knights lodge used to be a good pub, shame its being run by Fred & Mary , most miserable landlords in Corby
• Pubs in Corby are gash. The Hazel Tree used to be pumpin' with all us handsome and intelligent Celtic fans. All the pubs are a 3-day trek from each other and you end up forking out £10-£15 on taxis on a night out. Also I don't like getting bottled so its the Spread Eagle for me, even though the landlady is a fat humourless bint.
• Visit the Talisman in Danesholome after its redevelopment, Good drinks, big screen TV discos and quizzes. Also try the newly opened Talisman restaurant, a pleasant and enjoyable atmosphere with a good wide ranging menu. Bookings not always necessary
• village inn to small maddasons too small oh yeah and there full of wankers who think they are hard
• Dont go in any of them. if you do, you wont come out alive unless you are tooled up. If you get desparate, just use a bottle , dont worry about being the odd one out, everybody else does.
• MADISONS/VILLAGE INN/WHITE HART..ALL THIS IN THE OLD VILLAGE WHO NEEDS TO TRAVEL OUT OF THE VILLAGE
• on a Friday The Hazel Tree is the place to be. With a £1.50 entry fee and all drinks a pound, you can't go wrong! on a saturday you should either go to the village for a few in La Poste and The Village Inn or just go to Kettering as the pubs r wkd!
• THE ALL NEW MADDISONS / MORGANS THE FORMER LA-POSTE / PULSE AS FROM THE 09 NOV 01
• Spread eagle is quite good
• There was only two pubs for me, The White Horse down the village last stop before Bips. But the best was Rafters every Friday, Saturday night. Also you couldn't beat Saturday dinnertime with Dave Bateman playing those tracks Revolutionary Spirits by The Wild Swans, Blancmange 'Feel Me' and A Flock Of Seagulls 'I Ran'.
• The Knights Lodge has gone down hill since Don left, the new landlords are rude and unfriendly also more than half the regulars refuse to go there or have been barred for petty things. Also no children allowed when they have a beer garden, or dogs.
• What's happened to the Knight's Lodge? Everyone looks so depressed.
• oh this is a Corby speciality...Eves, The Rock (if u have a death wish!) Raging Speedhorn played there 1st ever gig there, the open arse oops! i mean hearth ;) , the village inn (for the more up market alcoholic, the knight's lodge, the spread (full of teachers) the candle (a bit dodgy) etc etc
• "La Poste" refutes the suggestion that the barmaids are working part-time as prostitutes and will thus continue to file for compensation from "Northern Leisure PLC" and Mr Bip Wetherall who started these malicious rumours.
• The Raven used to be pumping at the weekend,I used to have to squeeze through,now it is dead!
• White Hart.........changed a bit but still a good nite there
• VIOLENCE HAS KILLED THE CORBY LOCAL
• could be here all day naming the pubs in corby
• La Poste (at lunch time) Fast service especially for bar snacks, which are wholesome and very reasonable. Avoid Village Inn at lunch time - I had to wait OVER an hour for a plate of nachos - how hard can it be???
• hazel tree (recomended alot of other pubs have un wanted crowds outside) pluto raven hotel(recomended) shire horse king fisher white hart open hearth (gayish pub)
• The Royal George, Cottingham O.K it's just outside Corby, but a good pub all the same.
• whoever mentioned the KNIGHT'S LODGE. stop it. most corby people don't even know of it's existence, and we would rather keep it that way. the only pub in corby that doesn't smell of marijuana. bring back Don.
• The Village Inn is very popular these days followed by La Poste, which is across the road, as one empties the other fills up. After a good skin full you can stagger into The pluse night club, which is at the back of La Poste. If you've never been out in Corby you don't no what your missing, its not that bad, as long as you like a good drink.
• the office (page three) the game bird (the raven)
• Page Three, George St Corby. Monday, Indie Night till 1.00am Wednesday Night, Karaoke & Disco night till 1.00am Thursday Night Live Groups Indie & Rock, Disco and Quiz Friday Disco, Loud & Proud, Saturday, Disco and Big Video Screen Thursday, Friday, and Saturday till Midnight.
• Below Bips Nightspot on George Street is Page Three Fun Pub Mondays is Indie Night, Wednesday Karaoke, Thursday Disco live Groups and a Quiz night. Friday night Page Three with DJ Ian Bateman, who has been in the pub since 1980.
• Cardigan Arms, Stanion is just greaaaaaaaaat
• The 'Gamebird' which has recently changed its name to 'The Raven'.It got a 'Beatles' theme now. Always packed on Saturday nights, if you want to sit down you have to get there at about 8 o'clock. The Raven has a resturant too and it's a hotel.
• No you are talking. Fancy a Real Ale ?? The knight Lodge on Tower Hill Road is a must. This is a quiet beer drinkers pub with No MUSIC ! For load music and mad people try any other pub in the town.
• If you're after a good beer, then try a Pils down the Rockingham Arms. It's powerful stuff. The pub itself is a bit rough with people of a questionable drinking age. Still, it's good fun. If it's a social life you want, go to the Spread Eagle at Oakley Hay. It's a bit out of the way, but the beer's not bad and it's full of people, especially on Mondays, Wednesdays and weekends. If you're after a fight, go anywhere else :)
• Corby has loads of pubs, ranging from pretty good to absolutely dire. The Hazel Tree has a pretty good atmosphere and gets really packed at weekends. The Rockingham Arms (or The Rock) as it's called is also worth a mention, if only because it has 6% Pils on tap! But don't visit if you don't like the smell of smoke!

Cafes and Coffee Shops

• shcooners
• the greedy pig cafe is da best eva!
• the old fella who sells ice cream in the summer.
• WE GOT SOME LOW-BUDGET INTERNET CAFE PLACE BUT IT'S KOOL 'COS IT'S FRIENDLY, CHEAP AND THE GUY WHO WORKS THERE KNOWS ABOUT GOOD MUSIC, CHEERS SHAWN.
• We could do with a post modernistic coffee hang out!
• The Bus station cafe. Complete with authentic nudge machine and miserable hag waitress danglin NO.6 ash into your cup of bird's mellow coffee. Pearl and Dean interior, complete with bu bu bu bah ba ba ba juke box. Class. I don't know why you all complain so much.
• THE INTERNET CAFE ON CORPORATION STREET IS THE BEST THING ON OFFER.
• The schooner chippy where all the giro people go
• bus station, a time warp back to the seventies, they still sell jubblies, (triangular frozen ice block of ozone flavoured pish popular when bill bixby was still on the telly)
• Littlewoods tea room - every Saturday after the pub or each day at dinner time whilst at the tech.
• too many chip shops and no where decent to go for coffee in the town at all.
• er..Bakers on Occupation Road
• Helena´s cafe is not, and it repeats, not an Amsterdam style Cafe-Bar.While it sympathises with the Corby "Liberal Ganja" movement, it can not be held responsible for the activities on it´s property.Legal herbal highs will of course still be sold behind the counter for a nominal fee (they are not Magic Mushrooms).
• the new Nescafe cyber cafe is a step in the right direction but sadly lacks in moccachinos & frappachinos.
• A meeting place like a coffee shop would be great!like the one in friends.
• THE GREEDY PIG CAFE
• ripoff
• Hazels in Weldon (outskirts of Corby). Quiet (VERY) but great homemade cakes.
• littlewoods rip off though
• Helena`s Cafe, try the BIG BREAKFAST fresh food, worth checking out on Rockingham Road.
• The waitresses in the American Grill all need a good shafting!!
• Helena's Cafe, still going strong, serving up a mega breakfast all day. Check it out.
• helinas cafe rockinham road

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