O'Briens Tea Rooms — Restaurant in West Lancashire

O'Brien's tea room feels like a relic of the past in many ways, which is why I find this review hard to write, as I'm clearly not the audience catered to. Despite this, the atmosphere feels drab, and extremely outdated. The service felt sluggish and quite sad at times, with very few people even providing service with a smile.

The food was extremely diverse in terms of selection, even providing a katsu curry, which was interesting to see for a tea room. However, upon ordering it's clear to me that this diversity may be too far in some aspects. The katsu part of the curry was great, the chicken was well cooked, and the breadcrumbs were a nice golden brown, but the curry itself was not that of a typical katsu curry sauce, and upon requesting why this was the case, I was informed the chef had done it since college. Odd for sure. My partner also ordered a chicken & chorizo skewer, which had undercooked chicken, but the chefs fixed this as soon as they could, and removed it from the bill to apologise.

The cake was fantastic, although for the price I was paying it felt like it was rationed out to me with quite a thin slice, which only made me feel like the place was stuck in a time warp even more.

Overall, my experience here was not the best, and from what I've seen from other reviewers it could just be that either I'm not the audience catered to, or I came...

I last visited here 24 Years ago; it was called Park Hall then, and although you couldn't fault the quality/value of the Food and Drink Menus, the Interior was really dated. We visited again last Weekend, as part of our Daughter's 7th Birthday Celebrations, for Afternoon Tea. Staff were brilliant: really friendly, welcoming, and attentive, and the Service was prompt. Really impressed with the tasteful Decor/Furnishings as well. The Afternoon Tea is highly recommended, really competitively priced, and extremely filling. Had a glimpse of the regular Menu also, and that too looked delicious and competitively priced. Very well done to the Owner and Staff; we cannot recommend this Place highly enough, and will be visiting...

Today I joined a few friends in O'Brien's in Ormskirk, where I treated myself to the first Eggs Benedict I've had since before Christmas. And the thickness of their toast was astonishing (not to mention how delicious their poached eggs were). So I'll be doing that more often, I think. I read that the late Michael Mosley once said that a man should find a purpose in life during his Golden Years, or he'll fade away and die. So my purpose now is to get out more, be active, travel, and get back to my old happy extrovert self. Not easy for a grumpy old sod like me, but I'll give it my best shot. Photos by Priscilla, the very kind young lady who waited on me hand and foot and made me feel like it was my special day....