Reviews in Rawtenstall

My first visit to Whitchaff Inn with friends on 14/3/23. It was delightful, lovely relaxed atmosphere, great service, friendly staff, excellent food with a great choice on the menu. Will definitely be returning soon.

Great food and a great relaxed atmosphere. Service was as good as ever!

Went to the Whitchaff for Sunday lunch. Lovely decor and atmosphere. Polite and friendly staff. A very reasonably priced Sunday lunch. The beef was lovely, really tender and lots of vegetables, 2 types of spuds and the waitress even said ‘just ask if you need more gravy!’ What more could you ask for?!

Looks really nice service excellent the only fault was no dressing on salad with the pate and i asked for no tomatoes with gammon but they gave me with.. My husband wanted no veg but possibly would have been nice for some onion rings as a replacement we had to order some at a great expense.

Came to The Whitchaff for the first time as party of 4 adults and 2 children - and wasn’t disappointed. The staff were welcoming, friendly and attentive, despite the restaurant being busy. The food was amazing- very tasty, big portions and excellent value for money. Will definitely be back!

Absolutely fabulous

Ate here as a party of four for lunch. Very enjoyable visit. All the staff were polite and helpful and the food was delicious. Very clean and tidy and very tastefully decorated.

Always amazing! Excellent food, brilliant service great choice of beers.

Excellent food- perfect service and a great atmosphere as always

Yet another great experience at A’vucciria! They hosted a 30th birthday celebratory meal fantastically! Food & service was amazing as normal! Many thanks!

A WARM WELCOME UPON ARRIVING EXCELLENT MENU GREAT GOOD & BEER GOOD SERVICE I WILL WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT

The refurb is really lovely but the bar waiting area needs a bit of work in welcoming guests. Its definately not the bar it used to be but if you are asking people to wait -at least offer the drinks. Food was okay for 3 of us but 1 plate was lukewarm pie & mash with stone cold veg served on a cold plate. The person who had this dish was poorly the next day unfortunately. Food should be piping hot & served on warm plates. Nobody came to ask if our food was okay - staff seem very young. Hopefully feedback will be taken on board and rectified. We will give it another chance at some point but not for a while i think.

The food was lovely. Unfortunately we ordered an expensive bottle of white wine which at best was luke warm. Whoever runs the cellar/bar needs to rectify this, we asked for ice for the wine, but it was almost undrinkable

Decent, home cooked, quality food. Not much vegetarian choice.

This was our first visit to the restaurant… we had booked a table for 3 at 8:30pm. We turned up 5 minutes early and was told the table will be ready in 5 minutes by the bartender. This was fine except he proceeded to carry on with what he was doing, leaving us just stood there, without any offer of drinks in the meantime. A lady behind the bar then jumped in and said, it will be at least an hour’s wait for food, we have big tables in. She did say apologise but with that we decided to leave with them looking relieved. Considering we booked a table, an hours wait for food is appalling. If you can’t cope with the numbers in the restaurant then stop taking bookings. Luckily it wasn’t a special occasion but this could ruin some peoples special days!

Ate at 8pm on Friday 3rd March. 2nd visit since return. 2 of us. Good menu choice not the bog std borimg menu like elsewhere eg Duckworth Arms. Good food and service Only 1 major complaint. We were told on arrival there would be an hour wait for food due to two large tables in the other room. Surely the staff knew they had 2 large tables in the night before and should surely be set up to deal with that so as not to ruin a night out for other diners. Will go again but any restaurant should be setup to cater for large tables of 15 if they accept bookings of that size. Staff were attentive as much as they could be

Steak cold had to order another one, Because we complained the young lad behind the bar thought it was funny to keep looking at us and sniggering with the tall girl, not one manager or owner of the pub available just these left to run the place , it was such a lovely place to eat before it was refurbished over priced food !!