Can you help (cas -v- fax) : Tue May 05, 2009 5:20 pm  

Hi i am coming up from Oxford with all my family to watch this match and we are looking forward to a great match (fax win we hope).

My two kids are 2 and 3 so we are looking for a good or great pub to get some food in before the match. Can you please help on this ??

May the best team on the day win.

: Tue May 05, 2009 5:32 pm  

Hi

I suppose the first question would be how are you getting up here?

If you are coming up by car and in good time then a wonderful pub to eat in is the Three Horse Shoes at Fairburn just outside of castleford, and it would be worth ringing up to book. Good home cooked food at a reasonable price

There are also various eating establishments in xscape, chiquitos, nandos, frankie and bennies etc.

There is also a nice Chinese restaurant the eastern court.

I also hear that the Magnet on pontefract road does good food but as I haven't eaten there I can't give you a100% accurate answer.

Safe journey and enjoy your day (hopefully the result will go our way though )

: Tue May 05, 2009 6:22 pm  

yes sorry we coming up in the car.

: Tue May 05, 2009 6:40 pm  

mark shaw wrote: yes sorry we coming up in the car. The Turnpike (just off the A162 which is the old A1) is a Brewsters pub with an OK menu. It also has indoor and outdoor play areas for the little ones. The Turnpike, A1 Business Park, Pontefract Rd, Knottingley. West Yorkshire. WF11 0BU. http://www.brewersfayre.co.uk/restauran ... t&x=5&y=15

mark shaw wrote: yes sorry we coming up in the car. The Turnpike (just off the A162 which is the old A1) is a Brewsters pub with an OK menu. It also has indoor and outdoor play areas for the little ones. The Turnpike, A1 Business Park, Pontefract Rd, Knottingley. West Yorkshire. WF11 0BU. http://www.brewersfayre.co.uk/restauran ... t&x=5&y=15

[tb]

: Tue May 05, 2009 8:37 pm  

tropical1 wrote:

Hi

I suppose the first question would be how are you getting up here?

If you are coming up by car and in good time then a wonderful pub to eat in is the Three Horse Shoes at Fairburn just outside of castleford, and it would be worth ringing up to book. Good home cooked food at a reasonable price

Fairburn? Back in 1971 I got chased into the toilets at the village hall by a pack of girls at some disco, and not let out until I agreed to go out with one of them. Eeeh, them were the days


For family feeding though: Does The Fox at Brotherton still exist? I recall being sat outside that in the 1960s with a bottle of coke and a bag of crisps, watching the traffic on the A1. (That's how you fed kids then, parked them outside with a coke and crisps …)

: Tue May 05, 2009 8:55 pm  

tb wrote:

Does The Fox at Brotherton still exist? I recall being sat outside that in the 1960s with a bottle of coke and a bag of crisps, watching the traffic on the A1. (That's how you fed kids then, parked them outside with a coke and crisps …)

Crikey me and my brother used to do the same.
Bag of salted crisps with the little blue bag and a bottle of pop.
We must have crossed paths tb cos it was the 60's when i remember the same event.

As for brotherton fox, it's an indian resteurant now.

: Tue May 05, 2009 9:06 pm  

whers good to drink through day before game comin over early on train to enjoy pre match banter and hopefully after match celebrations

: Tue May 05, 2009 9:23 pm  

Try the Glassblower (Wetherspoons) pub on Bank Street in the middle of Castleford. It's only a short walk down to the ground.

[tb]

: Tue May 05, 2009 10:00 pm  

poppys mum wrote:

As for brotherton fox, it's an indian resteurant now.

meh!

: Wed May 06, 2009 1:35 am  

Nowadays it is hard to find a pub in Castleford which serves good food.

Back when Lockwood had The Boat in Allerton Bywater, that was the place to be, we used to go every Saturday and you would never be dissatisfied. Not many managed to finish their big mixed grill, that was a treat even for the biggest of appetites. Brian even brewed his own beer in his last year or so of ownership. We went there a couple of times after he left but it wasn't the same. I hear it's reopened fairly recently but I haven't been yet.

Other than that you only really have The Three Horse Shoes, The Old Mill and The Glassblower on a Saturday, unless you want to go to a chain restaurant.

I've only been once to The Three Horse Shoes and I enjoyed it, would go back.

The Old Mill used to do decent meals but it has decreased in quality since last season, which is a shame, been twice this season before Saturday matches and there was hardly anybody else in.

Which leaves The Glassblower, I wouldn't advise a meal in there, expensive and poor quality, only good for Guest beers and cheap sessions.

The Singing Chocker just off the M62 has mixed reviews, some say the whole experience was rubbish, others say it was good, wouldn't take the chance with that or The Brewers Fair type pubs personally.

If you fancy Pizza, Chinese, Mexican or Italian then Xscape is your place, you get what you expect really.

As for The Fox, now an Indian Restaurant, went there a couple of years ago for New Years Eve, it was nice, they serve traditional and non traditional Indian food, not often you get cheese on Indian food but they do a lot of things with it. Do buffets on Sundays too now. Haven't been back since but I definitely would.

Hope this helps.