Reviews in Lancashire

Couldn't agree more with all of the other reviews. This really is an excellent restaurant with friendly staff. We visit regularly and have always had tasty, high quality, low cost meals.

6 of us ate here on tne 26th feb 2012, and what a pleasant surprise, as soon as you walk in you get a good feeling about this place ,for a start its really warm and cosy the fires were lit, there is nothing worse than going in to a cold pub. The food and service was really good, as one of our guests cant eat wheat.The waitress asked the chef to do a wheat free fish pie, which he did and she said it was delicious! We will definitely go back.

I haven't had a good KLEFTICO since I was in Blackpool last year so on the way back from a long shopping trip my Husband and myself thought we would give Tottos a try.. The place is tiny and that's ok but the KLEFTICO, if that's what you can call it was terrible, it was a very small lamb shank with two very small roast new potatoes and one mushroom cut up with mega thick cheap bisto like gravy over the top and a side dish of frozen peas, three slices of carrots, with almost raw cauliflower cheese.............. I never ate mine as it made me feel sick as the gravy went like lumpy school dinner custard... I will NEVER EAT THERE AGAIN!!!!!!

This venue is in the award winning Barton Grange garden centre. We had a great late lunch of a seafood platter and top end pannini's. Service was professional and the cap it all I had a wee in a urinal shaped and coloured like a flower! Quite possibly the best urinal in the world.

excellent highly recommended

Was fantastic here food was lovely staff we're polite and welcoming and service was brill defo call again :)

Went last Sunday, had the 3 course special for £14.95, a fabulous meal, superb service, highly recommended, will definitely go again!

There is always a good welcome, good pub food and good ales at the Horse and Farrier, High Bentham, and a good end of week atmosphere with live music on Saturday nights. I held my husband's 70th birthday here and our friends thought it one of the best pub nights they had ever had.

What a very enjoyable evening we had at Fresco Fresco on 24th Feb. It was a live music evening with Keith Mitchell. The food was delicious, the staff were friendly, the music was great. We will certainly be looking out for future live entertainment evenings at Fresco Fresco!

I was at this restaurant or should I call it fast food take away never had service like it in my life , I would never set foot in it again. Every course was rushed still chewing ya food and trying to take your plates away we both went to toilet came back to our table cleared of plates and unfinished drinks no apology or anything , but food was ok.

Had belly pork and mash from the specials board...and special it WAS - on par with food from The Highwayman at Burrow. Would certainly go again!

we have been going to the grey mare for a number of years,the food is great and the hospitality second to none

We went to celebrate my wife's birthday with a number of family members. The whole experience was utterly appalling. The service was so slow it was beyond a joke; we sat down just after 19.00hrs and waited 30 mins before we were asked for our order. The starters were very poor, with grease laden mushrooms and dried out chicken amongst the fare. When the mains arrived, two of the steaks were utterly inedible as they were so tough. When the sweets arrived the portions were of a laughable size, so measly were they.In all the evening was completely ruined and though we were offered a reduction in the bill, the amount we did pay was nothing short of an insult!

Paul Lang is fantastic chef but only at Longton from wed - sat only OK when he is my there. His serving staff are very robotic, no personality- need addressing

Terrible place - cramped dining room with old rickety chairs and tables - millimeters between diners - incompetent staff who cannot get orders right and are rude and abusive at the drop of a hat - the food is poor - cheap poor ingredients - Do not waste your money!

It was reading lovely reviews like these that made me book a rare and cherished night out with my husband at Freemasons. We were very disappointed. The food was poor - particular mention goes to the smoke filled Chicken livers which were poorly presented and vile. My fish of the day swam across the plate in a pool of butter. The service was completely underwhelming, at a good restaurant, when provided with feedback regarding a course that has barely been touched (the chicken livers) one would expect action of some sort. Nothing was done. The person we paid at the end of the night was completely unaware, and to be frank disinterested. Not at all first class. Do not waste your time, there really are many "average" restaurants who are able to make a more special occassion than this restaurant. Utterly disappointing.

this restaurant is bloody expensive

We booked a table for two here and mentioned at the time of booking that we wanted to use our Telegraph privilege card. We were assured that this would be fine. We made a deliberate point of making sure that they understood about this. We had the meal a couple of days ago: an unremarkable three course dinner including a Sunday roast. We've eaten much better meals locally, and paid less for them. Upon querying the bill, we were told that we couldn't use our Telegraph card because they stopped accepting them three months ago. We were not told this at the time of booking, in fact, we were told the exact opposite. Obviously, our choices of food had been influenced by the offer. The manager was not available and we were not offered any form of compensation to make up for this. Neither of us usually write reviews however we are appalled by this. The new Telegraph 2012 booklet, in which they are listed, arrived a few days before our meal. This is false advertising. We spent twice the amount that we were expecting to, based on the offer. Neither the food nor the service were good enough to make up for it. Another time, we will certainly eat elsewhere.