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Folkestone is a Victorian Seaside Town that has seen better days though has retained a number of eating houses that put a lie to the suggestion that there is nowhere to eat in Folkestone. Though the seaside holiday trade in Kent has vanished over the years, there has been a growth in the eating out culture. Folkestone, also being a Garrison Town, has always attracted restaurants providing everything other than traditionally English food with the English food along side Oriental, Asian and European restaurants that set out to cater for the returning troops.
Folkestone caters for all tastes and pockets. The traditional English workingman’s café flourishes and though the tables may sport paper or plastic tablecloths and the decor tricks the mind into believing the experience could have waited a little longer the quality of the food neither deceives the eye or taste buds.
Folkestone has a good dozen or more workingmen’s style cafes selling everything from All-Day-Breakfast, a traditional English Breakfast of Bacon, Sausage and Eggs with at least three extras that may include Baked Beans, Mushrooms, Tomatoes, Black Pudding, Hash Browns and Toast as well as the obligatory mug of tea. If the customers are known to each other, which they normally are, then be prepared for an extra serving of English, wit, sarcasm and insults, all in the best of humour. If you are visiting England then you should try a workingman’s or transport café at least once. Many of these cafes retain their 1950/60s style and decoration.
Food to Go or as it is known in England, Takeaway Food is prolific with Indian Curry, Fish & Chips, Chinese, Ghurkha, Pizza, Burgers, Kebabs and many other foods from all corners of the world. However, English Fish & Chips are not what they were, now served in those little plastic trays when they were wrapped in paper, are still worth a try. Find a Fish & Chip shop near the beach; ask for cod and chips, Uss if you are brave. Sit on the seawall as the night closes in and dig in using your fingers. There is nothing like a cool night, the sound of the sea and a bright moon to add to the flavour that can be enhanced even further with a pretty girl. Folkestone has every kind of takeaway that you could wish for and many will deliver.
For the more traditional who like a table with a proper cloth and a knife and fork there is a good selection of restaurants in Folkestone from Traditional English Roast Beef to Italian, French, Spanish, Chinese, and many other cultures. In style, they can be very middle class English to very friendly small establishments all professionally run.
If you visit Folkestone, take the opportunity of discovery; forget McDonald’s, Starbucks and the other plastic factory produce marketing men’s dream machines, there for the easily duped kids. Finds somewhere where the food is how it use to look and taste, where the people are normal and friendly and the price is surprisingly acceptable and if you are from overseas you leave feeling you have discovered something about the British you never knew – they are much like you.
Bardstone Penfold is an established name in the Folkestone written arts, penning articles and reports on a freelance basis for established specialist magazines in the world of antiquities and humour.
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