Fish and chips, a typical English meal, has been put apart by the proliferation of pizza and burgers, kebabs and other ethnic meals stands. The English gastronomical tradition has always been ridiculed for their European neighbours, but it is possible to find many and varied meals in the different regions that go beyond the fish and chips. That is the case of the Lincolnshire’s sausages and Cornualles’s pasty , stuffed with meat and potatoes. In Melton Mowbray it is recommended to taste the pig meat pies, as well as Yorkshire’s roast beef and pudding. Cornualles has the best seafood, and the most famous cheeses are processed in Silton.

England is the puddings homeland: spotted dick (pudding with raisins and currants), plum duff (coiled plums) and syllabub (medieval style dish made with cream, white wine and lemon juice). The English cream tea is served in all the tea-rooms, mainly in the southern coast. Generally, the tea is served with bread, jam and butter. There’re also many traditional bakery recipes, like the pancakes of North-England and Scotland, Scottish black bun puddings -a fruit pie-, the Bakewell cake, covered with jam, almonds and ice cream, as well as all kinds of breads.

It has to be considered that the English meal timetables are very different from the customs of Continental Europe. In this country, the breakfast is a full ritual and possibly the most important food of the day. Usually consists of bacon, eggs, sausages, toasts and tea or coffee.

The drinking world of England have a reputation on two drinks: beer and whiskey. The more popular beer is the bitter -without bubbles, dark and served at room temperature-, although the lager (gilded and light) is gaining more and more adepts. The whiskey is a very popular drink, being the best those of Scotland and Ireland. If it is taken with a beer half pint is called "nip and a hauf". Basically, there are two types of whiskey: single malt -unique malt, processed from the brewing barley- and grain, with oats and a small amount of brewing barley. Blend is a mixture of both varieties. Very different others are the malt whiskies, whose quality depends on the ingredients used in its processing, as well as on the water and the oak barrels where it is aged.