Reviews in Chorley

Thoroughly enjoyed our lunch here. The food is excellent quality, freshly prepared, and the service is pretty good too! What a location........

Enjoyable lunch Good food, lovely views, helpful staff

Well, the first thing I should say is that I wouldn’t have actively gone on Tripadvisor to critique this eatery. I would have just put it down to experience – and if someone had asked about my experience, then I’d have given them an honest answer. But then that’s just what happened: Whinns emailed me asking for a review. So here it is. And it ain’t glowing. I just hope it helps the owners address the issues and lift their brand. As the phrase goes ‘we learn more from out failures than from our successes’. I’ll just give you my experience and my honest take in categories of ambience, service, food and value for money. So the position is excellent. Tick. Rolling, manicured hills and lots of open sky, a bucolic idyll. A fantastic stage on which to create a scene for a memorable experience. But as the old American café advertisement said ‘You can’t eat atmosphere.’ The café’s picture window is a double-edged sword: good for external views but utterly terrible for internal ambience. The entire wall of glass is a solid, non-sound absorbing surface. And together with the solid floor, the patrons’ combined voices just create the acoustics of a squash court. My partner and had to speak in raised voices across our small table just to hear each other over the room’s boom. Not relaxing. The front of house staff are friendly and helpful, though, if I were to compare this experience to others, I’d say the manager treads that dangerous line between engaging and intrusive with varying degrees of success. But the food was the real annoyance and let down. My partner, for her birthday lunch, had the spinach and cashew filo pie. I went for the ultimate burger. The back story here is that around lockdown time, I’d been passing Whins with my partner and we’d overheard a lady saying to her friend that the ultimate burger was the best burger she’d even had – ‘burger’ not just meat-free burger. Now, for me, that was kind of a big call. I love burgers. I had to find out - I’ve had all sorts of burgers on multiple continents. I hoped a new holy grail of burgers awaited. The food arrived pretty quickly. I’d been informed that the option of chips with the burger was off as there’d been supply problems, but there was a salad. Fine, I have no loyalty to the potato. But my partner and I were a bit taken aback with our meals. I’m not blaming the kitchen staff here at all. I’ve known enough chefs to know they generally receive a prescriptive menu and ingredients to prepare. We had decided to get different meals so we could share half each of the respective dishes. But the scale of the little filo pie next the haystack of slaw/raw veg was odd. And when I cut my ‘ultimate’ burger in half to scoot half to my partner’s plate, I had exactly two bites of burger left to eat. I’m really not one of the all you can eat brigade and I prefer quality to quantity any day of the week, but this thing was tiny. If it had been twice the size, it would’ve have been just about adequate. It would have been almost laughable, if it hadn’t cost nearly £14. It really did taste good, but ‘ultimate?’ Not in any positive, polite category I can think of. I always find it’s better to under-promise and over-deliver. We waited to order coffees, but no one came to take the order. So we got the bill. There’s a potential gold mine here. Situation. Parking. Lack of competition. Potential offering. Even the sound problem can be solved quite easily. We even had other people to bring on a second visit. But sadly for Whins that money will be going somewhere else. It’s not my job (here) to sort out brand perception and product delivery, all I can do is vote with my feet.

Visited Verdes for the first time with friends. We all had the 3 course meal of the specials menu. £15.95pp The restaurant inside is very classy and it beautifully set. The food was absolutely delicious from start to finish, couldn’t fault it one bit ! It was perfect. They don’t rush you at all nice and relaxed Staff were very friendly and professional. We will definitely returns and I would recommend 100% We also has 2 large wines 2 beers 2 lattes And the bill was £97 for 4 people

A perfect afternoon was spent here meeting up with family. The views are amazing and the food is excellent. We had the afternoon tea- a wrap each and a soup plus a scone and loads of cakes!

As always, couldn’t fault anything. Food delicious and plentiful, not rushed to finish our meal, pleasant relaxing atmosphere, very good value for money. Can’t wait to return.

Lovely food with amazing service. Will be back

A recent find. Such a beautiful setting and a real treat to have a relatively local vegan/vegetarian eatery. We chose small plates so that we had room for a dessert too. All delicious!

We had a lovely lunch in a gorgeous location with beautiful views. All food was fresh and delicious, served by friendly, helpful staff. We wished we'd had room for the delisious-looking cakes but the main courses had beaten us! Highly recommended. I only wonder why they close so early?

We booked a table for two for lunch. The food was delicious amd fresh. It is so refreshing to have such a wonderfully vegetarian/vegan restaurant locally. It would be even better if they were open in the evening too.

Had lunch with friends yesterday and it was excellent. Had the lunch menu and every thing was lovely, the service from the staff , andthe food portions were very generous. Will definitely be going again.

Always delicious food.

The food was excellent. However, the service was left to be desired. We were never asked during the meal what we thought of it, we had to ask for the dessert menu and when that order was being taken the "cafe manager" rudely interrupted the poor waitress and asked her to go and do something else, rather than wait for her to finish what she was doing. It appeared to be disorganised. Other than that, a great place and thankyou.

Booking easy, friendly welcome, varied menu including gluten free options, tasty food, recommended

Booked at short notice and was given a lovely table looking out on open views. As usual food is amazing. THIS is our favourite place. Will be back very soon..

A lovely setting with beautiful views around. Being picky here: restaurant is very modern but atmosphere isn’t my cup of tea as it’s just one big room with a lot of tables and bright spots above so was very noisy and bright - not exactly a relaxed atmosphere. However, there are tables on a terrace outside so I am sure this would be fantastic on a lovely day. Food was superb - fresh, tasty and well presented. I had the Buddha bowl and my partner the Wellington. Both were superb. Couldn’t fault and real thought has gone into the flavours so definitely value for money. Service was ok, but could be improved. Staff were friendly and greeted us on entry and were attentive up to delivering mains. But then when we wanted to order dessert no one seemed to come back to us for quite a while. On the whole a quality place, I will return and would recommend.

A welcoming immaculate venue with a an abundance of choice served with pride and passion.

Delicious food with plenty of vegan choices, very friendly service, reasonably priced what else do I need to say, we will definitely be going back