The Sir Richard Owen - Wetherspoons in Lancaster

Toilets absolutely filthy everything else ok

Ordered 2 pitchers and they took nearly 30 minutes to come. No ice. No straws. No glasses. Disgusting in my opinion. Not even a busy day

Could do with a refurbishment looking tired ,service was good and beer was good 👍

gentleman called alex murray had excellent customer service skills, he saved my baby from falling and dying

Alex Murray has great customer service skills and is a credit to the business!!! Alex served our drinks and addressed us all in such a polite and eloquent way. His professionalism is echoed in his ability to make customers smile and make them feel welcome. Despite being new to the team, I believe Alex can go far and deserves the highest wage increase wetherspoons can offer.

Good food for the price you pay Especially alcohol

Nice weather spoons right next door too a few other pubs great to start the night off friendly staff great atmosphere

Very busy on the evening we popped in. Good and cheap..

Good food, coffee (with refill) and friendly staff. Enjoy

Lovely place food quite good service was ok but it was very busy

Popped in for a quick drink and a snack. Everything was fine with the vist.

Great choice of cask beers at incredible prices. Valet parking was a bit slow though.

The prices are unbeatable, both for breakfasts and drinks.

Unfortunately my drinks got ordered to another table and the manager was very polite and helped solve my problem. Many thanks to Ed

I've been to many different Weatherspoon's everywhere some of them are really good whilst this one is ok but the table service is terrible I ordered a Pepsi Cherry drink but it never came when I walked up to the bar to ask where it is I saw the waiter's tray with my Pepsi Cherry drink on it it was just left there with nobody picking it up and taking it to our table. I think table service needs to improve.

Very over cooked food and disinterested staff! The fish tasted like it had been reheated several times, everything was cool, the staff didn’t know what to do to fix the issues, When I got home and checked the bill I’d been overcharged…. Never again - easily the worst Wetherspoons I’ve ever visited!

Love Wetherspoons but this pub was below par. Untidy, needed a clean up and some tlc to the dining areas.

We needed somewhere cheap and quick to go eat on a night out so we came here .. i wish we didn’t. the waiter was so rude and had 0 social skills, although the food came out quick and it was decent , nothing was clean. every table had plates and glasses that i don’t know how long they were on there for , all the tablets were sticky and the menus had crap all over them. behind where i was sat there was old coffee and broken glasses. the interior on this place is awful and something to look at if you want a headache. it stunk and the atmosphere wasn’t what i had expected. i have been to better wetherspoons.

Very bad service, refused to serve meals that were on the menu and rude staff

Nice vibe and lovely place to spend time.

Enjoy the visit each time I have been here, 😊 will be coming back, next week staying in Lancaster for the week,

Easy and convenient to order on their app, and very quick and friendly service. Food was served hot and very tasty.

Amy was amazing with helping us with everything and a fabulous performance at her job and customer service

Popped in for a quick breakfast, super efficient service. Ordered via App at 1040, food arrived 1044! Cant be many places that beat that (obviously i get breakfast items are often ready, warming - but still!). Noticed a goid variety of real akes and pub was also clean and tidy. Definitely one of their better venuyes for service etc.

Good break for 4.99.Great pint of Settle Brewery bitter for 1.99

We were staying in the hotel next door to this Spoons. We used it for breakfast both days. Amazing value for money. Other venues were charging £11 -£15 for breakfast this was £6. Staff friendly and efficient. Definitely recommend.

More staff needed to clear tables.

Didn't eat here, didn't get chance. My partner was told to leave after arguing with some drunk (who was obviously a local). The bloke was swearing and shouting then dropped a tray of drinks everywhere. When my partner asked him to stop swearing in front of me snd a family near by he started on my partner. He then proceeded to drop the drinks . The drunk and his rough looking mates then heard my partner comment to me about the "state they were in" snd started again. The bar manager clearly had some friendship or fear of this mob because he refused to serve my partner and told him to leave. It was a Sunday afternoon too. Staff were rude. The only drink we had was flat and some of the customers were down right rough. Shame for the other locals who seemed quite friendly. Never again.if I could give NO stars I would

It's aweatherspoons but we know what the food is bit overmicrowavedand poorly served

Not the most friendly pub. Staff not showing any interest in customers. Have used this pub for 8 years + and sorry it's not anywhere like the friendly atmosphere used to get. The ale selection is very poor. There used to be a far better selection.

Lovely Wetherspoons but still like the Thoms Drummond a lot better.

Honestly they're views on here...you get what you get with spoons and it's a fair price .I had a pizza , garlic bread and the bargain 2 ciders for 5.95. No complaints on food and the service whatsoever . Some people are so fussy !!

Nice pub and extremely busy. Lack of staff meant it took a while to get served, but the prices are very reasonable. The staff are friendly enough and quite attentive.

Came in here in Thurs as having a day out to lancaster.we went for chicken curry my kids had nuggets and chips .. All the fire alarms starting going off then we all were sent outside nobody told us what was happening.it was 20 mins or more then we went back in but all our food was cold... nobody offered us a voucher or asked would we like a refund ,I had to ask if I could have some hot chips for my daughter who's 5 I was disappointed as we've come here quite a few times on a visit to Lancaster ...

I went here alone, I was planning on treating myself to a steak. To my surprise, they had an offer on the steak. It tasted very nice and was cooked to how I liked it. I ordered on the app and the drink and food came in good time.

Wait , wait and wait , ordered but not enough staff to serve such a busy and tourist area wetherspoons, the table staff were literally run off their feet , when an hour later we got our breakfast , they were lovely , but if your in a rush skip here ..

Stopped here for lunch while visiting Lancaster for the day. Ordered via the app which was quick and simple. Food and drinks came quickly and were really tasty.

Excellent! Good food, friendly staff, and great atmosphere 👌

Dark and gloomy place Poor customer service from bar staff who didn't know how to say please and Thank you which is a basic Should not have closed other pub in Lancaster which was much more pleasant

I loved the experience but my least favorite part was when I realized they had no pizza cutters 3 stars😡

Good fair prices, Great service, Good food, Thankyou x

Does exactly what it says on the tin. Very polite staff.

It's a wetherspoons, cheap beer and spirits, cheap food that is good, where else can you get a £2 pint in 2024.also this one is clean and tables well serviced.

This was a brilliant pub for dinner, with a bright and colourful design! This is contributed to from the different lights and the colourful patterns on the wall, counter is well presented too. Staff were really nice and signposted the menu that I enjoyed the Korean Burger with Chips from, sitting at comfortable seating!

Shocking experience waiter was rude and food all came out cold and mixed grills were cremated due to haveing children with us they told us our new food had to be take away won’t bring going back beware walked past kitchen and there were loads of flys on the food aswell

I had a mixed grill and it came out cremated Because I came with a child they asked me to leave at 9:30 even though I had no food and said they will give it to me in a take away box absolutely disgusting won’t be comeing back and writing request on all pages

This establishment is by far the worst wetherspoons i have been too the service was terrible i ordered an 8oz steak rare it was bone dry and bland personally i would not recommend this restaurant my family member ordered a mixed grill half of it was basically cremated it was appalling

£1.99 a pint of guest brew,beet that!😊

Another great Wetherspoons, food could be warmer but that seems to be the norm I've eaten at scores of them and they're all the same. The service is quick and the staff always welcoming and friendly even at 8am in the morning.

Ho pranzato qui, la carne del mio burger era buona, anche se mi aspettavo una porzione più grande. Si ordina tramite sito web, avrei preferito che un cameriere venisse a prendere l’ordinazione. È un pub con molti piatti tra cui scegliere, molto economico (£5.44/ €6,45).

Fed up seeing the old grey haired pony tail guy, taking up a large table, all day with his laptop etc and one coffee. Shouldn't be allowed.

Great place food is value for money

Foods absolutely shocking defo avoid and a waste of money

This must be one of the worst wetherspoons I've been into it was dark and dingy, they had the air conditioning in full belt so it was freezing, the beer ( Worthington's) was just above freezing point. It was that cold you couldn't drink it. Ok you've got a good range of beers and you're cheap but there comes a point

Young lady behind the bar not a happy bunny. Maybe needs a different job?!! ALL other staff ace. Bloke downstairs did an excellent job. Beer decent — yeah!! Food great. No real complaints other than … her lol

It's an ordinary spoons , nothing too good and nothing bad at all! It's alright for a pint! Or maybe two or more 😏😁

Just another wetherspoon. Uncomfortable slow service and not even cheap anymore.

Had the all day brunch. Freshly cooked, plenty of it, and very nice indeed. Staff were friendly and served with a smile. Table was cleared and cleaned as we sat down, food wait was about ten minutes. Hot, plentiful and tasty. Spot on. Great value for a meal and a drink each. It was a busy lunch time, but still able to get a table without a problem.

Good ale at low prices. Food ditto. Service speedy.

The usual witherspoon environment. I only generally pop in for a big breakfast now and then. Really wish the good would arrive hotter but value for money.

Not that easy to find in Lancaster. Entry through two streets on two levels. Has outside seating for sunny days. Has a lot of regulars.

A typical Wetherspoons experience with fast service. Watch out as they have duplicate table numbers so food/drinks some times go to the wrong table!!

Good food, good service, what you'd expect from Wetherspoons. Can't fault it. As usual clean loos with toilet paper.

Fantastic prices and the staff can't do it enough for you tables always clean well done guys

Quality food & drink at a smaller price, all in a good timely manner & staff always friendly.

Good beer excellent service and great food

Decent, it's a spoons, enough said. Gets too busy with students but thats hardly their fault. No qualms

Travelled from Bolton to see family and decided to pop in for lunch. Cheap drinks, great staff and nice hot food.

Disappointed with the lack of bacon this morning in a bacon and egg muffin - apparently there is only supposed to be 1 rasher. It's a good job I had the egg too!

You can never go wrong with a affordable WS visit, not the nicest WS but the usual service and quality, didn't break the bank

Not the best Spoons I have visited but not the worst either. The Wetherspoons menu appears to have expanded since my last visit to one of their establishments and I was excited(?) to try the pizza. It was a bit undercooked but otherwise fine. The service was fairly quick and friendly enough.

Stock standard Wetherspoons breakfast. Good value for money

Phenomenal Wethers will excellent food service food beer and gorgeous cocktails and modern clean venue and great atmosphere

Cheap beer, cheap food. Your standard Wetherspoons. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Great little wetherspoons good food will visit again next time in Lancaster

Been here a few times I really like the atmosphere it’s a great place for a few drinks and a bite to eat

We used the app to order and waited for 30mins. In the end the we went to the bar and collected our drinks. There were 2 other trays waiting with ours. The food arrived 5/10 mins later. The pizzas were goon. Kids pizza didn't come with the cucumber or tomato advertised on the menu. The two tables closest two is were full of dirty glasses and plates for the entirety of our stay. The staff were apologetic when they delivered our food and we collected our drinks, but they were obviously understaffed and overworked.

Sir Richard Owen was a naturalist, biologist and paleontologist. One of Lancaster’s famous sons. As he was chatting away about Darwin’s theory of evolution in the mid nineteenth century he was once allegedly overheard speculating, ‘Through my work on invertebrates, fishy things and skeletal studies of dead creatures, I hope very much that I am remembered in my hometown of Lancaster by having my name attached to premises flogging beer and a burger meals for pennies and steak dinners for £9’. He got his wish. I must confess, we were in Lancaster on the hunt The Pub, home of the Massive Wagons mural. As you do, just call me Billy Balloon Head. We’re the prime generation after all. And then Sir Dicky appeared out of the Lancaster mist. A beacon, a shining light, a breakfast. We ventured into Sir Rich, a classic Wetherspoons pub in every sense of the phrase. Everything has its place, no matter where you are in the UK. The coffee machines are dotted at regular intervals, usually with sugar and annoying wooden sticks by the machine’s side. Occasionally not. The sauce tables are always exactly where they shouldn’t be. The bars are long and nobody ever knows where the queue begins and ends. If indeed there is a queue and not just random groups of punters gathered by the closest till. Our food arrived, our morning feast, the traditional breakfast, the ‘Spoons staple. And it was good, one of the better examples of said banquet. Nicely cooked bacon, hot toast, runny yolk, all very agreeable. Excellent. And Massive Wagons are a fabulous band too. Sir Richard thought so. He was a bright fella.

Went for a smoke and they took my pint. Said I'd left the building so it wasn't mine any more. Greedy manager, wouldn't own up to his mistake, made the bartender have the argument on his behalf. He should join a union. We were only outside for the time it takes to cook a beyond burger patty.

OK so as an incredibly cheap place to eat the reality is you get what you pay for. Not the best breakfast in town by any means but wasn't so bad either. my slice of tomato was not cooked at all.. and the food was barely luke warm. Will I be back for breakfast again? Probably not.

Manager cleared away our pints when we popped outside for fresh air... greedy boy. Don't trust him.

We came here for lunch , fish and chips and jacket potato, the food was average as we have had better in a Wetherspoons but the coffees were very cheap at £1-04p. I had to ask if I had heard it right. It was not the best of Wetherspoons but I've been in plenty worse.

Very nice food and great service, bit dark and gloomy in the restaurant but overall we enjoyed our visit.

Very loud in here although good atmosphere. Food good and service. Thank you

Typical Weathspoons plenty of choice for food and drink, had a lovely meal

Very tired looking needs refurbishment place not very clean luke warm drinks and breakfast items are not appealing

It's Spoons — most drinks are cheap as chips & the food is always good. I think a lot of locals come in here for free coffee refills (currently £1.06 compared to £1.56 at every other Spoons) because they probs can't afford to heat their own homes (if they have one) and need a place to keep warm in Winter. Poor souls. I'd recommend the onion rings & small chips but all the food is good from what I've tried. Ciao baby

Good food, quick service. Friendly staff.

Very pleasant service with no problems to try an ale before I bought. I settled for an Innkeepers by Coach House. For food I had a huge portion of all day brunch. Food and drink came to an unbeatable £6.44, excellent VFM. I enjoyed a Shipyard for 2.99 afterwards. Recommend this one.

We arrived at 2pm at the Bar area on Friday 3rd Feb and quickly noticed all the tables even with no body sat at them were covered with empty glasses and plates from meals. Ordered the drinks then had to ask a member of staff to clean a table for us which he reluctantly did. Then to our amazement he just walked past all the other tables with glasses etc on them and just left them and went back to the bar to talk to his colleague ? Fast forward 1hr to 3pm and all the same tables are still covered in plates and crap from previously and no one has even attempted to clean up . At this point the guy behind the bar (possibly supervisor) left the building probably finishing his shift but clearly not bothered about all the crap that was left over the tables from his shift. At 3.15pm a New guy who said he started at 3pm then started to clean up all the crap and fair play to him did a very good job , but when we spoke to him we could tell he wasn't happy with all the crap which was left off the last shift by the other guy. Morale of the story is call out the Lazy Sherkas (ginger hair lad) And retrain his responsibilities or sack him . Really was grim

Came here for lunch with my mum and boyfriend. The food was fine. It tasted good but the portions were kind of small, we all got burgers. However, there was a good selection of options available on the menu. The main annoyance was the fact that there were screaming children everywhere. It was extremely overwhelming for me, as an autistic person.

On this occasion the food was great, service was with a smile and it was a pleasant time. The 'Ale' was kept well (which is a general stone point of this particular pub) and though the toilets have seen better days (long gone it seems are the days where wetherspoon toilets win awards) one does appreciate that they are generally clean and serviceable. The Owen (as some might call it) is certainly joy the worst pub in Lancaster. , and as a first or second stop pn a night out, would defo make a cheery addition... but being your mates and keep your expectations realistic.

amazing customer service, clean and friendly environment

Great customer service, very quick and very friendly.

Try the mushroom benedict!! I was set up for the day! Quick service and friendly staff

Really good food and great atmosphere

Fantastic pub, the food was fantastic. Well presented and very hot! 5* to the kitchen manager and all the staff for making my visit well worth it!

Cheap, decent food, nice mood and friendly staff. Really good for uni students before a night out.

Food nice, staff great tables and decor a little dated. A lot of the empty tables were dirty also with nobody cleaning after guests left. Otherwise all good

What a nice place to meet friends for a cheeky cooked breakfast and coffee on a Saturday morning at very reasonable prices. Nice staff and nice food. A great start to the day.