The Lancashire Fold — Restaurant in Rochdale

The flagship pub of the JW Lees brewery. Food good. Due to lack of decent competition this pub makes a massive profit regardless of who manages it. Good for sports TV coverage. Would be better if they had guest beers/ales from other breweries ( e.g. Tribute or Theakstons, Doombar etc) but Lees are convinced their own beers are all they need. They do have a beer pump with the San Miguel logo, but it bears no relation to the taste of San Miguel you would taste in Spain or even in a bottle purchased in Asda. Mostly local attendance from the Alkrington housing estate. Seems to be regularly decorated/ facelifted. The brewery do keep on top of the maintenance of their No.1 cash cow. The fashion for craft beers has passed them by. If only the beers could be improved it would be perfect.- update- on a recent visit they had a limited edition Real ale which was quite good. A step in the right direction. Well done JW Lees- credit where its due! Unfortunately it was of JW Lees creation rather than a decent beer from an external brewery ( e.g. Doombar etc). Microbreweries are popping up all over the UK producing excellent ales. Time to diversify. Sometimes when there are Christening parties or other family events, you have to endure out of control kids running around the whole pub! If we must have kids in a pub then confine them to the function room only. I am not interested in tolerating other people's brats. Prefer if pub went back to the " over 18's" rule of...

Following on from Emily’s review, when we booked; we booked, cancelled and rebooked for 30th as there was an issue with the funeral dates. Anyhow upon the first booking everything was fine but when we decided to rebook after changing the date back to 30th again we were advised we could still have the room but needed it back by 5 as they had just took another booking for the room but was advised we could go in to the main pub area - this was fine and we had no issues with this.

However on the day and before the function room was needed back, we were told we had to leave the pub completely and wasn’t allowed in the main pub area. We didn’t understand the change of heart. The only thing I can think is that we were relatively young mourners and we weren’t wanted in the pub after the booking had ended.

We found this very disappointing as between everybody we had spent a lot of money on drinks in there plus the £800 buffet. We had our mum’s funeral in there 6 months earlier with no issues and wasn’t asked to leave the pub after the function room was needed back but they was...

It was a Sunday and about 1pm. My family and my father went to the Lancashire Fold for Sunday Lunch. We attempted to order food but was told by the young lady behind the bar that we should try again in 10 minutes as she "couldn't take any orders just yet". A little bit bazaar but not impossible I suppose.

5 minutes later, after some discussion, I went back to see if the situation had changed. This time, I was told that I could order but that the wait would be about 40-50 minutes or, I could wait 10 minutes and the food would arrive much sooner?? When questioned about this logic, the lady behind the bar said that she "can't take any orders at all" and that the chef wouldn't "allow" her to take any. Hmmmm.

I suspect that the chef hadn't turned up at all and that they were waiting for cover.

When the order finally went in and served to us, it was as...