Decent places to eat Barnsley centre before boxing

Can anyone recommend anywhere cheers

 

Salthouse - small plates
Med - best about if you can drop in and they have space
Turkish places - Istanbul/Pasha
Lemon Tree

 

Thanks mate

 

Try market Kitchen, varied choices. Falco lounge also do decent food

 

Too late to reply to be of use I know - but just out of interest I finally took the advice given on here by several and had a little potter round tarn this afternoon (hadn’t been into the town centre itself for possibly getting on for two decades, since I had a road accident which knackered my knee permanently I tend to just drive in, park at either the club or on ponty road, and then go home).

The glassworks is pretty impressive I have to say; and I think they’ve done a cracking job with the market. I came for the boxing and (as it wasn’t football) had my wife in tow today, as well as the lad - plus his girlfriend came too. Properly spoilt for choice food wise, struggled to pick somewhere (tried to get the ‘kids’ to pick but at seventeen my lad can’t make a choice and his girlfriend probably a bit too polite/embarrassed to as she doesn’t really know us that well yet) - but there are a lot of really good options, surprising really - we ended up in the market kitchen as it meant nobody had to pick one particular place. All four of us ate from different outlets and all had a really good feed; I had a mixed chicken tikka and seekh kebab with salad on a huge naan from the Indian place (having struggled to decide between that, what my Mrs had, something from the Turkish place, the Chinese/japanese - even the spuds place had some lovely looking topped roasties). The mrs had a Greek chicken gyros, my lad had southern fried chicken on cheesy fries from another place; and his GF had sweet and sour chicken balls with egg fried rice from the Chinese bit.

I liked the setup, a bit of a higher quality version of the oasis at Meadowhall. Reminded me of trinity kitchen in Leeds a little, bit smaller maybe but still an excellent asset for the town I thought. Busy too; we were there from just before 4pm.

The town centre is markedly better than I remember it. I applaud the council and town planners. You mostly all would know I’m a Donny lad - they’d do well to look to Barnsley for a little inspiration if they fancied trying to improve the market area and so on. I mean I did of course see some obligatory vape shops, phone shops and ‘Turkish’ (presumably more Iraqi if they’re like Donny) barbershops - but, possibly because I didn’t look hard enough or in the right place, no zombie like spice users or anything remotely antisocial.

Didn’t note any homeless people even, not that I’d class them as antisocial.

Also - side issue but still worth mentioning - arrived just after 2pm; parked in the glassworks car park, left well after 11pm after the boxing and the car park cost me a quid. £1. That is outstanding.

Three hours parking at the weekend for that price (and making it free after five for those using bars, restaurants and the leisure facilities) can only drive footfall. Very, very good.

Didn’t venture too far away from there, we went into the Alhambra to Primark and up to Superdrug and Costa but not really beyond there.

I can see myself coming into town early on a semi-regular basis next season. The walk under the bridge up lambra road to the ground and back wasn’t too bad even for my bad knee.

 

Hiya mate

Just going to pick up on a comment having being the role reversed of you, having recently visited Donny and being a Barnsley lad.. I visited last weekend when the Doncaster arts team built a huge cardboard version of the "Corn exchange" building..

I would say Market kitchen and The Wool Market in Donny are quite similar,
The Wool seems to have plenty of food vendors with decent variety.. and has a similar operation with the pay for food, get a beeper device and collect when cooked with a bar (maybe two) in there..

Id be intrigued to know how you would improve Doncaster Markets? (This isnt a dig but something I can feedback)

I love Barnsley town centre and think they have done wonders there. I would imagine the issue Donny have is the proximity to Frenchgate, where in town it is all built into each other.