Great food and service! Been coming here for a couple of years - as it’s local and open for Monday lunch. Friendly service and good value meals - including two for the price of one deals, but . . . never had room for a sweet so can’t comment on those. Favourite starter is their salsa and dip nachos to share! Enjoy!
Went tonight for a meal had to wait over an hour don't understand why as not busy, the food only come after we asked where it was, ordered two steaks and two sizzler steaks. The platers where not very hot and only got the peppercorn sauce when we asked. We all agreed the steak was tough and not very hot not worth the £100 pounds paid. The pub was more like a youth club with two children throwing a ball between them in the restaurant we wont be going back again
Went here for first time recently for lunch with family - it's inexpensive with a large menu and the staff are polite and helpful, I had (as pictured) chicken skewers with side salad and sweet potato fries but was amazed how quickly the food arrived which left me wondering if much of it is re- heated ? Food aside the building is starting to look unloved with foliage/ plants growing out of the roof and gutters and the gents toilets in a sad state.... Many pub chains have had a very tough time due to lockdown/ covid restrictions and repair costs are probably on the back burner right now and I sympathize, but for me it was just ok...
Honestly haven't eaten anywhere near as badly as this since life left me eating from the bins at the back of circle K. Daughter got nachos that were soft and bendy... and she sent them back. We were told it was because they had sauce on them... we make nachos about twice per month, and not only did I do catering management at college, but my daughter is home educated and helps in a cafe once a week. Fob off claims don't wash well. The dry parts of nachos are not supposed to be flexible! There is no chef here. It's a wanna be cook throwing food together abysmally and with an arrogance that leaves them totally unable to take responsibility for the rubbish they're turning out. My daughter then ordered something she said they couldn't mess up, tomato pasta... and when it came..she said they messed it up. She said it was grainy, like it had sand in it, with cold sauce that didn't have any flavour. She's tried to shake it up with a bit of the dreadful hard dry sausage from her dad's breakfast but still couldn't eat it. Her dad always picks the "most filthy thing" on the menu for me, I love eating food that's totally different... And I have never, in 15 years, never been beaten. until now. Vimto burgers are actually grim AND worse with cold chips. It was like eating birthday cake with meat in. Sweet and meat is normally such an amazing combination and ordinarily something I'd choose but this was utterly vile. The chicken wings would have been fab... if not coated in some cold nandos type dipping sauce. The lady came and asked us if our meal was ok and we shock our heads and said not really... Looking at our still full plates, she reflected our distaste by wincing and walked away...That was it... Why ask at all? What is the purpose of saying "was everything ok with your meal?" Why look at whole entire meals and then not only ask but agree and walk away. After we finished our beer, I asked for a takeaway bag.. and told the server that if we couldn't eat it, I would at least feed it to my dogs! They eat out of the cat litter tray given half the chance...so won't be bothered. A whole new level of absolutely dreadful and it cost more than £40! The photos are some of the finished meals! I can only add 6. To top it all... cotton Kier replied "Glad we could help" on my Facebook review!
We had booked into a different Greene King a couple of miles away, we walked in spent 2 minutes and walked back out again. Checked on the map and found The Cotton Kier. Very glad we did. The staff where very welcoming and accommodating. Found us a seat straight away. Ordered at the bar, but the app was available. Only a short wait for the food, but well worth it. The steak I ordered came cooked perfectly and presented well. Very nice portions for the price. Desserts where bigger than expected and very nice. Overall I'm glad the other venue was not suitable for a nice meal (standing room only and very, very loud. More like a busy pub than an eatery).
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Bolton, Lancashire, BL1