The Canterbury Tales is run by Mr. Dave Collier, a jovial Englishman from the ancient cathedral city of Canterbury � hence the restaurant�s name!� It is indeed, a very cozy spacious establishment decorated in traditional English pub style that provides a great selection of down to earth homemade British pub style food, with authentic �pub grub� such as Meat Roasts and all the trimmings.�

Dishes include Roast Lamb and Mint Sauce (280 baht) and Roast Beef and Yorkshire pudding (200 baht).� They have excellent Beef Stew, (very good value at 100 baht).� Canterbury Tales make their own homemade Meat Pies, including a very popular Steak and Kidney Pie (160 baht).� Other favourites such as Fish and Chips sell at an amazing 100 baht, and Cumberland Sausage and Mash (130 baht).�

The menu also includes a few �international� style recipe favourites, such as Spaghetti Bolognese (120 baht), Spare Ribs (120 baht), and Gammon Steak (120 baht).� If it is a steak you want then try an excellent T-bone steak and Chips for a very reasonable 280 baht or an enormous Mixed Grill for 195 baht.� The menu also has a very good range of Thai dishes which are geared towards farang tastes at very good prices, 60 to 90 baht.� They also provide good value all day breakfasts (from 75 baht) with all the expected items such as bacon, eggs, sausage, beans and doorstop size toast.� If you are on a serious health kick they have one very healthy style breakfast (60 baht) with yoghurt, cereal, fresh fruit and berries.� Snacks, burgers and sandwiches start at 60 baht. To round off a good meal, then try one of Dave�s homemade Crumbles (Apple or Rhubarb) and Custard for 75 baht a portion.

If this is not enough to tempt your taste buds, you can order authentic Indian food from the menu of a local Indian Restaurant, (which is a favourite with Dave) and will be delivered fresh and hot within 30 minutes guaranteed.� The bar is very well stocked, with Chang at 40 baht, Tiger Beer and Singh at 55 baht, Heineken at 60 baht a bottle.� Wine (we tried an excellent Merlot) is sold at an amazing 90 baht a full glass.

Not only is the Canterbury Tales a great value eating place, it is also a fine guesthouse offering guests 20 room quality accommodation upstairs.� The 55 seater Canterbury Tales is quite unique in that it offers a fantastic library of second hand paperback and hardback books and magazines, available in Thai, German and of course English.� In fact, there are about 10,000 books available on the shelves stretching the whole length of the spacious restaurant.� It is indeed great value, if you buy a book you get 50% off the next one purchased.�� They also offer a free Internet service and Wifi hotspot to all their customers and guests.��

Canterbury Tales has a good gathering of regular customers plus members of the Pattaya Expats Club, who meet here on the last Thursday of each month for a social gathering with old hands and new club members enjoying the excellent breakfasts.

So to the food! We tried one of the popular Breakfasts, which was a plate filled with smoked back bacon, eggs, pork sausages, fried bread and beans.� Very good value at 95 baht!� Then we sampled Minced Beef and Mash (120 baht), a dish of delicious top quality minced meat cooked with vegetables and served with fluffy mashed potato.�� The other meat dish we tried was the Roast Lamb (280 baht).� A generous plate full of sliced Roast Lamb together with fresh vegetables, Yorkshire pudding and homemade Mint Sauce.� This was followed by some of the Thai dishes from the menu.� All extremely good tasting and authentically prepared and went down well with the Thai crew.� To end the meal, we had to try one of Dave�s Crumbles.� In fact, we tried both the fresh Apple and impo