The Greyfriar in Preston

I came to the Grey Friar for dinner with my Auntie, uncle and Nan. While we were ordering the staff member taking the order made a snide comment about us ordering the whole menu. We had to send my uncle's curry back as it was stone cold, and my aunt got the entirely wrong order. No apologies at all. The standard of service across Wetherspoons pubs has deteriorated horribly. Our experience was awful.

The order that came was totally wrong having waited about 25mins. One person on the till. We then had to wait another 25mins for our right food. Wouldn't go there again. The manager said that it was due to Race goers that didn't except. Not good enough. Good experience at the Twelve Tellers.

Excellent location and amazing range of Beers, Wines and Spirits.

Cheap and cheerful,food fine,service fine,clean surroundings,go often😃When serving bangers and mash,please serve on a plate not in a dish with a separate jug of gravy.

Preston home match day so the bar was very busy and noisy. Wait for food for 3 people was 50+ minutes and everything was cold when it arrived. Pint of Leffe was undrinkable and sent back/swapped for something else. One coffee machine was switched off and the other had no milk in it. Tried to get coffee machine rectified and was dismissed by three separate staff members. Overall it was a seriously disappointing visit that I would not expect from Spoons and such that I won't eat here again.

Walked in for a quick pint. Very busy, but any vacant tables looked like a "war zone", uncleared dishes, plates & glasses stacked up. Totally unappealing Any percieved value was lost, no purchase made & went to a local pub. Disgracefull really & won't revisit.

Absolutely disgusting staff are really rude and incompetent

Lovely clean and tidy food really good

A fairly typical cost effective Whetherspoon. It was expectedly busy but it is quite large which is a bonus. Food was fine and quick

Standard wetherspoons big average food good prices. Ideal to meet and move on. Well placed for job centre visits

Nice clean pub, extremely busy Saturday night.

Food was cold took ages for drinks to arrive poor service

Not bad place one or two strange cats in their

Lovely relaxing place to eat and drink

Waited over an hour for a drink on the app

There was a strange man stood next to our table staring at us in silence the whole time and the staff refused to do anything about it despite us asking

Great breakfast Hot. Crunchy hash brown very tasty

I was there to write my thesis. I sat at a corner with my coffee ☕. It's was such a homely atmosphere and on top of it, the coffee taste great and has a free top up. What a nice deal.

Great place. Delicious breakfast. I'm glad the breakfast butter is of good quality. This is the only wetherspoon that serves delicious butter for breakfast, not vegetarian.

Cheap enough for a drink.do meal deals with a drink. Plenty seating areas.

I had a mix grill most of the food was great but the chips seemed like they been sat around for an hour or two very chewy and cold

The staff are great! Always good. The rest is just a wetherspoon in Preston.

Wetherspoons have a 10 minute rule that once food is ordered delivered to your table withing 10 minutes.. Well on 31-01-25 i ordered at 13.10 at 13.40 queried where was my meal 5 minutes later it arrived the fried eggs were so well done and cold the chips cold bacon underdone baked beans warm the only good thing on the plate was the sausages Have been coming once a week for a meal for years but regretfully will not be coming back. Should have returned the meal but after waiting such a length of time ate it !!!

three times ive eaten ther just want to know is the chef qualified or what first meal was a traditional breakfast egg was so hard no yoke at all freezing cold even beans only thing hot was the sausage and the bacon was so burnt they hide it under the egg might give a review on second or third later but still hurting how can u enploy a chef that cant even heat beans up and cremate eggs

Long wait for the food, otherwise good

What can I say that hasn't been said by others? It the most popular place for a great selection of food and drink (both alcoholic and non-alcoholic) . Tea, coffee and hot chocolate (free refills). There is nothing bad that can said about the friars, others strive, the friars achieves. Well done to managers and all the staff. A very safe night out. Stowford press cider is £1,99 you can't beat that anywhere.

Great food,just a bit of a long wait for it. Very polite staff

Once again something missing from our food order blamed on new staff behind bar.....need to work on customer service

Went in here to grab some food, with a short space of time to spare, before catching a train. Have to chase up drinks and food came out first. Was told they were short staffed, yet the pub wasn't that busy. Apple crumble was nice but could've done with more custard and yes, I'm aware I could've paid for extra custard.

A good witherspoon pub one side of the town centre.

I'm not always a big fan of Wetherspoons, but this one is very nice and very large. I had a nice meal and the service was very good.

Just what you expect from a Wetherspoons, good beer, good prices, plenty of room and a great atmosphere. I have the app which is handy if it's busy at the bar. Would recommend

Best pub to go to if you want to talk with your friends and affordable food and drink. Good pleasant staff too.

Standard 'spoons. If you want music, go to Twelve Tellers.

Nice pub, lots of tables. Friendly service and fast food. Ordering via the app was easy. Would recommend

Typical Wetherspoons. You get what you pay for. Drinks very modestly priced. Service slow but adequate. Clean enough.

Food was a little rough...but that been said the pub was packed and very busy. But standards should be maintained at all times. But great atmosphere for sure.

Went for breakfast Sunday morning. After half an hour and other customers having received theirs, we enquired where ours was. The server never got back to us, so I asked another server where our breakfast was. She said it had been deleted from the list but not prepared. She said they were doing it now. They kept bringing out food for other customers. After another half hour, my wife went and asked for a refund. The level of customer service was appalling, and they still deducted the price of the coffee of the refund amount. Will not be back.

Busy Saturday morning. Good atmosphere and great service.

Nice, large wetherspoon. Can be a queue sometimes. Mixed grill was excellent. Young woman server very polite. Definitely recommended

Absolutely heaving with no service, in the end ended up leaving and went elsewhere. Staff were trying their best but just not enough staff on at all for how busy it was.

They don't deliver your food waited 1 hour its not here don't go trying twelve tellers probably better.

Unassuming property, not the most historical of buildings that you associate with spoons ..but greyfriars is a great spoons lots of seating food is great ..the new fiesta breakfast is awesome.. coffee machine makes hot strong coffee ..bean to cup ..great selection of alcoholic drinks and the best prices .. well worth a visit

Half the menue unavailable. Pub is dingy and in dire need of a refurbishment.

Called on for a couple of lunch time drinks with my mum as we were in area visiting friends Was warm and welcoming Quick efficient service Advised us on the best bottle of Prosecco . Will visit again .

This for me is one of the best pubs in Preston. Brad, Craig and all the staff are amazing and so friendly. The quality of the beer and food is great and I highly recommend it to anyone.

Top pub, cheap and well looked after ale 👌🏻

Decent breakfast, cheap drinks and always get served quickly and with a smile.

The plan for a quick pint was scuppered by a dismal lack of staff behind the bar service. One lady serving as quickly as she could, while the queue continue to grow. Lots of other staff wandering around doing not a great deal except watch the queue grow and the customers leave. The beer was fine and a decent price, so I’ve I thought that I stood a chance of getting served again before I got significantly older I may have stayed. This is possibly the slowest Weatherspoons I’ve ever been in!

Took over half an hour for two small breakfasts to arrive. Toilets are absolutely filthy and blocked up with no toilet roll in any of the cubicles.

Plenty of seating, cheap price but satisfying flavour, and nice theme. Food quality is different in each Whether Spoons so I couldn't say.

Wonderful breakfast on 2 days and great choice of foods in the evening

Went here today for lunch with my Mum. Great location in the heart of Preston city centre with friendly and professional staff and lovely food (I had the katsu chicken curry). Highly recommended! :)

Wrong drink vending chocolate instead of coffee, food cold!!!

The best weatherspoons I've used. Plenty of room good food and service.

Its the first time we have been in The Grey Friar in Preston. Will not be going back we waited 50 minutes for the breakfast and when it came the bacon was burnt black and so was the sausage and everthing else was cold, the cup they gave me for my coffee had a crack all the way down and leaked all over the table so not good service at all.

Very unfriendly staff, mostly ordered from the app for table service however when staff brought drinks over seemed like a chore and didn't seem happy to do table service. Also food was cold like others surely microwave food isn't that difficult to get right!!!

Tried this “Fiesta Brunch” for the first time and it was nice. I wasn’t sure about what I ordered, just wanted to try something different from Traditional breakfast. For £3.88 that was cool but didn’t feel fuller tbh. Also feels a bit salty overall.

The food was nice would have been better if it was hot it's not the Albert and lion for shore

Nice spacious pub. What you would expect from one of the better Wetherspoons

Can someone finally vacuum the carpet and clean this place? Every time I come here, I get bitten by fleas. This carpet has never been cleaned.

We had to ask a member of staff to clean the table we wanted to sit at . The pizza was very nice but we had to cut it ourselves. There were no ash trays outside for people that smoked .

Ive been coming to Grayfiers for the past 10 years, being nearly 30 and recently been a great place to meet my friend who works at country hall. Tonight the lady serving me (assuming manager) decided to ID me. Since bring a regular, local and with contactless i no longer bring my wallet out. I dont look under 25 and have facial hair. Yet she refused to serve me. Although flattering ive not been ID'd anywhere now for over 3 years. Today was my last day i will step foot in greyfryers. Its also the last day all of my fellow club members will meet for socal gatherings in fryers. A short walk to 12 tellers and ive been served here. So i guess we will all meet here from now on.

Normal spoons. Someone was falling off their seat at 8pm, didn't eat so no comment, table service took a while, but a pleasant lad brought it over.

Either severely understaffed or the staff are simply lazy. Over 30 tables that weren’t cleared of food and drinks for well over an hour. Customers unable to sit and walking out. The usual member of staff who would not stand for it is not in……..shocker.

Absolutely the best ,staff fantastic,good brilliant,drinks great what more is there to say ,loved it and a fabulous atmosphere.go and have a good time 🙌

Called in for a quick drink and a bite to eat, on Saturday lunchtime. The place was an absolute mess. Dirty tables everywhere. No one was clearing anything away. Customers cleared their own tables. Spoke to the Manager ( several others complained too ). All she said was , 2 members of staff hadn't turned up. I understand that but, when 4 others bring out food and drink to people, then just blatantly ignore the mess, it's not acceptable. Full marks to Max...the only staff member who actually started to clear away. He told another colleague....it's a mess in here....he wasn't wrong. He worked his socks off. I have never seen it looking like a tip. No one cared but Max. 12 Tellers from now on...nicer place. Shame on you, Manager and staff....except Max of course. I did commend him.

Ordered drinks on app and took 15 minutes to arrive. Had the ultimate burger and it was tiny compared to the one in my local wetherspoons. We place is well overdue a refurbishment. It's looking tired.

Drinks seemed to take a while and I found was sitting on bar for ages, notenough serving staff it may be

Just like any other Wetherspoons. Nice, light large space setting the usual fayre. Good selection of real ales which are well kept.

Decent beers at very reasonable prices as you now expect at a Wetherspoons house. Food ok but not special - prices again reasonable.

Friendly staff, quick service even though it was busy and food as you would expect from Spoons - cheers 🍻

Probably the funniest afternoon you will ever have if you get a seat by the windows nearest to the local Job Centre. Most of the afternoon spent laughing at where most of the UKs money goes and the absolute dregs that have come into the UK merely to bleed the country dry. Best of all it’s only £1.49 a pint on Mondays and fortunately most of the crap that went into the job centre didn’t venture into the spoons to spend their hard earned cash generously donated to them, fortunately most of them just got back into another taxi and went off on their way having just secured another bumper pay day. Sad state unfortunately from what you see going into the job centre, but would definitely recommend this venue, very helpful staff and friendly venue and 10/10 for the free entertainment. Pensioners need to visit here, cheap, friendly and you can watch all the crap atttending the Job Centre and seeing where your winter fuel allowance has gone funding all this crap; that have entered the country In the last few years and have no Intention of working or contributing to the UK economy, plus Its free heating In there and quite cheap to eat and drink

Food isn’t bad along with the service. Only thing letting it down is the smell of stale beer in the carpets. It is overpowering, particularly bad at the side where the toilets are and nearly made me sick. They need a good wash

It’s a pretty nice spoons! Bit poorly lit but they have wonderful garlic dip

Had small breakfast and hot drinks. Good value for money.

cheap drinks, fast food order delivery, mixed crowd but mainly older earlier in the day. Good location for the town centre. it's wetherspoons, not the ritz, so limit your expectations and enjoy it for what it is.

Just visited for drinks, some great cask ales on at fabulous prices.

Diet coke £1.96 Worthingtons Cream Flow £1.86 ..I had to question that thought it was wrong..apparently on a Monday its £1.49 ..a friend had steak and chips for £10...smiled great, wished I was eating.. service at the bar was excellent with attentive bar staff keeping a queue to a kinimum . Very pleasant Friday evening. ☺️

A good Spoons, decent selection although quite a few beers were sold out. Best reason for the 5* review - I accidentally left my coat there and they spotted it and when I called to ask if I had left it there, they had it and I collected it on my way home! Great - thanks all!

Food and service much improved.

Surrounded with the usual early morning boozers, I popped up at the bar and asked the tender for a full breakfast and extra black pudding. Armed with an empty coffee mug I marched off to the drinks machine, I was very surprised to find a elderly chap just running off a hot chocolate into the drip tray, he wasn't letting modern tech beat him. I ate the full breakfast and bailed.

Nice pub, staff friendly food was nice

I've had it confirmed by the staff that there is no queueing at the bar, yet this is never pointer out to those that struggle with the idea that this is a pub and not a shop. Are staff given any training, other than pulling a pint I doubt it. Even for a Wetherspoons this is a poor pub.

Great place to catch up with old friends and have a chat. Cheap and cheerful. Great value for money.

No frills bog standard spoons pub . Good selection of well kept cask ales

Meals an drinks ordered together, meals arrived before drinks which was only 3 drinks 2 of them being a j20 an coffee waited nearly an hour for drink, ive been a few times an each time is different, most of time ok all round but staff are miserable a smile wouldn't hurt some of them

Brilliant chickenburger and chips were absolutely immaculate. Pepsi max was well good and we all had a great and fun time

This spot is mint! It was absolutely bookming! Food is quality especially for the price, I ordered the chicken burger and it was divine! Furthermore great service!

Took 45 minutes to get breakfast. Wasn't the best visit here.

Great value for money food and beer wise , great atmosphere

I had a real ale Wallops Wood. Very nice! Had the chicken burger. Proper full piece of breast with loads on it. Had extra egg which works!! Loved it!!! Staff here nice n all but they seemed a bit meh … but all ok. Maybe a bad day?

Chicken was tough and lamb chop was to we had the large mixed grill

Nice pub. Had coffee which was very nice.

Great food. Good astomphre. Friendly staff

Friendly staff. However food quality is not the top.

English Pub with typical atmosphere and good value for money

Was an absolutey poggers experience. Heavo recommend 👌

A little slow compared to other spoons

Tasty pizza served with a smile.