Reviews in Rawtenstall

Another brilliant evening with delicious food. We’ve been wanting to take our friends who don’t live locally here for a long time and they loved it. Service was spot on and all dishes top notch.

Brilliant as always, fantastic food, lovely wait staff, just perfect

Lovely atmosphere, friendly staff and superb food.

Absolutely beautiful food, service and environment.

Our first visit here and was great. The lovely interior to the lovely staff. Plenty of food to choose from the menu for everyone. Service was brilliant and food & desserts arrived with no problem. We will definitely be back.

We really enjoyed the food but the service was poor and let down the experience. We waited 45 minutes before asking someone to take our order, and nobody bothered to take our dessert order so we gave up and just got the bill from the bar. A shame as there was so much on the menu we wanted to try, but wouldn’t rush back to do so.

First time we have visited for a while and the food was superb and the menu was impressive. Lots of Asian inspired dishes which is right up my street but also a good choice of others. Great service too. Defo be back soon.

Always great food, nice atmosphere, and friendly helpful staff.

Visited yesterday for tea out with friends. We love The Whitchaff and have visited numerous times in the past. With the weather being so warm we opted to sit outdoors to eat. The views are fabulous! We were greeted with a friendly smile on arrival and handed menus. I'd say there is a good menu with a variety of meals as well as a specials menu. We all had a starter and a main - ample food portions,.enjoyed by all! Look forward to returning again. Hope the good service and quality food continues.

Visited for my stepdaughter dad's birthday. 9 of us attended and food was remarkable. My only small gripe was we had to go to the bar from restuarant to order most the drinks or get the waitress each time. It wasn't a real issue but got a bit repetitive as there were 9 of us.

Visited for my stepdaughter dad's birthday. 9 of us attended and food was remarkable. My only small gripe was we had to go to the bar from restuarant to order most the drinks or get the waitress each time. It wasn't a real issue but got a bit repetitive as there were 9 of us.

I have been many times to The Whitchaff Inn & will continue to return. The food is fantastic & plentiful & the staff wonderful. I can't recommend the restaurant enough.

Fantastic food and service.

The service was really friendly and the food was heavenly.

We went in for Sunday lunch and not only was the food fabulous but so were the staff & the place itself. Very friendly & efficient! We’ll be back!

Always good. Great food, good service, lots of choice.

Food was excellent as usual however it was far busier than we expected. We were allocated a table in the bar area and people were constantly bumping into the table and encroaching on our space. On consulting my daughter about this she informed us that recently you have become much more of a pub venue at weekend. I personally think when booking people should be told this and nobody should be seated in the busy bar area. We were celebrating our 23rd wedding anniversary and this experience actually made me think I should have cooked at home. The excellent service staff told us that if we book again we need to write a note saying we request a booth. I actually think this is a bit ridiculous- you only get a good dining experience if you are au fait with the venue! Also I will point out this was 6pm on a Saturday not routinely an overly busy time.

Our first visit, we gave a mixed review with the 2 different dishes. The steak pie was delicious, but the lamb wasn’t so good. The whole dish was a bit strange, cherry tomatoes in yogurt, potato wedges were nothing special and the lamb was tasteless. Not a great selection of drinks. The staff were lovely. Atmosphere at 7.30-8.30pm was like a children’s play area. We won’t be rushing back.