Wetherspoons the Old Chapel in Blackburn with Darwen

Thankyou to Lilly who tidied our table and served our food. Lovely girl.. there was 20 of my family including babies. She looked after us at every part of our meal... the food was good except the fish was a bit overcooked.. batter wasn't too good and no mushy peas 😕 apart from that great !!! thankyou Lilly ❤️

The staff here must be the most ignorant in the all wetherspoons group, you go into blackburn and the staff treat you completely different.

Had scrambled eggs on toast and miners Benedict with coffee twice and excellent value and quality food. Do not know how they do it for the price particularly as free refills

We’ve been here loads for drinks ok as a kinda start off bar ! We decided to go down for breakfast how good! ? We had large brekkie and mushroom muffin with Hollandaise sauce both were fab service fast and friendly . Coffe not bad either defo will be returning.

Awfull, I used to work in this pub and thought it was a safe friendly place to go for a beer with my wife and daughter, only to be harressed by the door staff repeatedly over my 19 year old daughter as she didn't have I'd with her, I was told she couldn't drink and the pubs licsence was at stake, wich is complete nonsence as her age would have been confirmed by any liscenismg agency after looking into it, made to feel very uncomfortable so much so we left after being approached several times over. Will not be returning and giving them any more of our money, sorry tim looks like your staff are umdectated, amd completely unaware of current laws. I thought this was a familly pub!

Appalling staff who are very rude to customers. Aggressive and uncomfortable environment not made any better by the bar staff speaking to customers like they are dirt and slamming drinks down. will definitely never step foot in this pub again. Disgusting treatment to the public.

Very rude waitress slammed my plate down, said " theres your ******* food , and walked over to a bunch of lads who seemed to know her. Complained to the manager who totally backed her up, & said that his cctv camera had seen the incident even though he wasnt there. Small town with an attitude of not caring too much for outsiders. Beautiful building let down by unprofessional staff.

Darwen is a lovely town but unfortunately gets ignored by Blackburn with Darwen Council. Wetherspoons, The Old Chapel is a lovely clean pub. I rarely go for an alcoholic beverage but do go for the breakfast. I generally go early in the day and it is always lovely and clean. The staff are all lovely and friendly. The Darwen Wetherspoons is superior to the Blackburn pub and you do get lots of family and couples going for their breakfast, tea or coffee, or their lunch. Darweners are the salt of the earth (I am one of them and proud to be) They are lovely, kind, friendly people. They work hard all week and enjoy their weekends. Blackburn with Darwen are two towns and thanks to the Council they get very little money spent on the area as most of it goes to Blackburn. In the North of England, we get very little out of our government. Darwen is lucky to get a Christmas tree at Christmas. I live in Blackburn just outside of Darwen and if I could turn back the clock and stay in Darwen I would.

Called in for a quick drink whilst in Darwen. Don’t know if it’s because it’s in an old chapel or the people of Darwen but this was the most refined Weatherspoons we’ve been in - not noisy & no one appeared to have drunk too much. It is really lovely inside & the ladies toilets were gorgeous & spotless - hubby said much the same about the gents. We sat upstairs as I can’t get on the high stools/booth seats & downstairs was pretty full. For me another bonus was that the ladies were downstairs (only other Weatherspoons I’ve been in were this was case is in Liverpool BUT very long walk too them i.e. after gents & disabled - although this is common in most pubs - don’t pubs realise that women have a shorter urethra & so can’t hold it in as long as men). Gents was upstairs We didn’t eat there & the food looked to be the usual Weatherspoons fare BUT customers appeared to be served quickly by pleasant & very busy staff. Hubby ordered our drinks at bar (coffee for him & a Bacardi & diet cola for me). We carried them up-stairs (only downside was he had to go back down to get his top-up). We liked it so much we visited again the next day & were able to sit downstairs Would definitely recommend

went to meet friends for a drink was sar near coffee machines noted waitress coming out with food floor in kitchen was full of food and cultery spotted her rubbing her belly then picking food did not wash hands she dipped her finger in curry to check if it was hot after scratching her ear she then got a fork which must have had something stuck in the prong she removed it with her nail and wrapped into a napkin and gave to customer so glad i didnt eat there food hygine disgusting and needs reporting

This is the second time we have been this month and can honestly say it was freezing on both occasions. It’s a shame really as it was our go to pub in Darwen but think we will start going elsewhere. Hopefully they sort their act out sooner than later as the trade of for cheap drinks and food is not worth it.

Been several times and have to compliment the staff and the food and drink too .Fish is always perfectly cooked and the curries are superb . Breakfast great and lots of choice too and of course you can’t beat the prices . What a lovely building and super clean toilets too . Keep it up it’s great .

Whilst visiting this lovely building it appears that vaping is acceptable upstairs , I myself thought this to be illegal, Keep up the good work

Can only agree this previous comments, the female manager is downright rude and aggressive in her manner. Maybe if she spent less time looking at her phone and more time cleaning tables the place would not look so scruffy and unkempt. Don't attempt to go up the stairs after 7pm or she wil be over like a walling Banshee and you will end up asking if it's ok to use the toilet like a school boy. I'm not sure if the pub was just freezing cold or that's the aura she gives off. Either way I'll never step foot in here again and I would suggest she re train for a role that's more suitable for her, probably not working with the general public as she clearly hates them.

The Old Chapel is a fabulous historical building that Wetherspoons spent a considerable amount of money on when acquired in 2014. Sadly it's looking tired in some areas, especially the furniture. It generally has a good range of craft beers and in true Wetherspoons tradition is good value for money. How ever The cleanliness isn't always up to scratch (food left on the floor when a table is cleared) and most of the time understaffed. On our visit they only had ONE person serving at the bar, meaning that there was a queue to the door at times. The duty manager wasn't to be seen, possibly fire fighting somewhere else. This spoons needs to be sorted out ASAP. One round was enough on this occasion as the queue was too long.

Uncomfortable seating, freezing cold and very rude staff, I don't think I've even been spoken to in such an aggressive and ignorant manner as I was by the female member of staff on duty this evening. It's beyond doubt the worst Spoons I've ever visited and no one deserves to be spoken to in that way. Avoid at all costs

My wife and I stopped by for breakfast and we both had a sausage butty each and both of them were really hot and tasty. The coffee was great, as always!

One of my friend got 2 veg sausages in his Large Breakfast instead of Chicken sausage… When we asked the manager, the lady with short hair, she blamed us that we exchanged the sausages from one of our veg breakfasts… Do you think we would exchange sausages to get free ones? That manager has an attitude problem ! No apology, just straight on attitude and blame to customer… Who made her the manager there? Come to Reading and I’ll show you how to become a good manager… I’ll personally train you how to deal with situations like this and how to talk to guests who money is paying all your bills at home! Fix your stinky attitude woman !

I eat in Weatherspoons every week ! Barman was rude because I said his potato was dry then ordered me a slice of cheese not grated !! Then the manager agreed with him !!!! Bad customer service dry food ! Jacket potato was like sand paper avoid at all costs !!!!

when i say meats back on the menu boys i mean it, had my gorgeous steak from the kitchen and hats off to the lil hobbits, was like lembas bread one small bite could fill the stomach of a grown man where at the end of my steak tis grown man was filled. downside the peppercorn gave me the eye of sauron the next day not even legolas could have stopped this mine from breaching these walls. The mrs come and check on my numerous time as it sounded like the withcking himself was giving siege to minas tirith fully needed eowyn to slay this beast and release me like frodo released the ring back into the fires of mordor. overall i would go again :)

We come in this place all the time and find the food is what you pay for , the alcohol is always good , normally when we come in the one thing we notice is that the clearing of tables is really slow . Tonight we came in and every table was cleared and clean , we noticed a lady running round making sure there was nothing cluttering up anywhere . She was cleaning and serving plates at the speed of light . After our meal we sat outside and she came out . We introduced ourselves and said thanks and we'll done to her for being fabulous . Her name was Comfort , she was quite embarrassed about us singing her praises but this lady deserves a medal .... Comfort it was a pleasure to meet you x

I’ve discovered Katsu breaded chicken and coconut rice 😋. It’s very good, so good I think I’ve had it every time I’ve visited a Spoons since last September and I won’t be stopping anytime soon lol 😂

This is a lovely spacious building saved from dereliction. Our order was taken swiftly - 3 small meals (but not so small), including fish and chips, scampi and chips and a pizza with a bowl of chips. Cost - £23 including soft drinks!! This is value for money these days. The food arrived within 15 minutes and was perfect. There is also a wide range of alcoholic drinks at very reasonable prices, incuding cask ales. It is no wonder Wetherspoons pubs are so popular!

Been here about 3 times and every time it's the same **** service. Staff are miserable and I've never seen one smile, the breakfast we ordered sat on the serving hatch for nearly 15 minutes and when it was eventually brought over I had to take the eggs back as they'd gone rubbery, the 2 mushrooms was bearly bigger than half my thumb, cold toast, burnt bacon... definitely do not recommend this place

Very nice Wetherspoons. Lovely feel and lovely staff. Donna especially friendly and funny and good at her job. A credit to you x

Very cheap and good value. Refillable drinks are cheap and plentiful. Breakfast cheap and worth the money. You get what you pay for.

Came in with family and ordered food. Food was good. Ordered some desserts. No one cleared dirty plates away even though no room on table for desserts. After about 30 mins we moved them onto an empty table. We are regular visitors and this happens...

Stopped off with the Blackpool Supporters Association en route to Burnley. Good friendly staff but you could do with one or two more to clear tables and they were working very hard. But it's a lovely building with a great view outside. Hope we come...

this is the best wetherspoons out there amazinng waiters and amazing food should do a play area where the upstairs is though because my kid got abit boted

All tables dirty, food on floor. Didn't get food or drinks order correct surley staff. I will say that it is normally quite good here

Very poor. Requested a breakfast starting with Porridge first, then followed by scrambled eggs. I asked my request to the person in charge who totally ignored or quite honestly didn't understand this simple request. The waitress who brought my order had no good morning or...

It is quite evident that this place is very popular due to the prices of food and drink here. Regrettfully I didn't sample either as having sat down on one of the seats i found myself stuck to it. Somone had spilt drink on it...

WellI have visited nearly eight hundred Wetherspoons and probably had thousands of meals but can categorically state that last night at steak night was the worse experience ever at any of their establishments. No literature regarding steak night and even the manager when we ordered...

Visited at 5.00pm on Monday after reading a few very negative reviws that did not match my earlier experiences. Being of advanced years, my wife and self do not have big appetites and ordered from the smaller quantity part of the menu, including drinks. The...

went in here today, every single thing about the visit was atrocious, from start to finish. The place was freezing, the app wasnt working, no bottles of wine to buy, dirty menus, miserable staff, distinctly under average food. Loud uncouth customers,scousers, dirty smelly customers stinking...

Visited here today on a stop off on the way to Ewood Park. Absolutely stunning building both inside and out but my goodness the staff are a miserable lot. The young girls on shift today looked bored and miserable and were very off hand almost...

Visited Wetherspoons in Darwen tonight and to say I was disappointed is an understatement, we ordered classic 8oz sirloin steak, which when it arrived on a big blue plate, looked lost just a plain steak and a jacket potato, the steak was just gristle all...

No hand sanitizer when coming through the door. Mentioned it to staff and they said there is another round the corner. Wasn't refilled whilst we where there. Asked twice for our table to be cleaned after me taking empty glasses up to the bar. My...

Just been here and the service was awful, had my hand up for 10mins and nobody came to serve me.. took 40mins to bring our drinks over and an hour for food and my daughter had paper inside her meal and couldn’t eat the rest...

Always enjoy going to the old chapel in Darwen, we haven't been disappointed yet food wise, excellent range of beers at low prices.

Dreadful won’t be eating here again unless things change. 😩😩😩😩😩 Need more staff better hand sanitizer no masks worn Food not good

With COVID going on you'd think these places would be taking more time to clean and sanitise ....not here ...the tables were filthy and the disposable menus never removed ....there must have been umpteen on the table ...when we asked if they could clean the table ....the server chucked a dirty dishcloth on the table and asked us to do it ourselves !!! ...this is Wetherspoons I hear you say ...but honestly me and my friend meet here all the time ....but never again Was worried about catching something and it wasn't COVID!!!

I don’t normally complain about restaurants, however as I work in a similar establishment I feel that it was needed. We were being served by a male waiter with a bun in his hair and he was very miserable and wasn’t helpful in the slightest. I had to ask on 3 occasions for sauce, straws and where our food and drinks were. One of our meal was sat there waiting to be delivered which we could see from our table yet he walked past it and kept looking at it. Not bothering. Our drinks didn’t arrive till we have nearly finished our meal. The food was also cold apart from the meal that was left to be taken, it was hard and the bread was rock solid it had probably been toasted as it was left there for so long! Two women who were both stood at the main door dealing with customers both came up to us and was very rude. We all felt uncomfortable and quite shocked at how we were spoken to. We were firmly told that we had apparently been told “multiple time that we can’t have 5 people sat at a table” if this is the case we weren’t made aware like they claim. We felt like children being shouted at. We asked if we could finish our drinks at least ( we had been there 2 hrs and this was the first mention of the new rule) they told us that only if we were quick. Then another lady came over and asked if we could take all our drinks and take them outside to finish. This is ridiculous. They expected us to finish that little bit we had left outside. I’m shocked at how appalling at the customer service and the 3 employees that we dealt with should be ashamed. I will not be returning and neither will the people I came with.

I went into Wetherspoons looking to have some drinks with some friends and I went to order some drinks before I was stopped by the staff member because I had been told I wasn’t allowed. I also had smart remarks made towards me and my friends when we were sat down and it was really rude. Other than that other people were nice.

For some reason when using the app to order food it added more food than we wanted. User error but the staff said we couldn't have a refund and basically it's not their problem. In future need to be more careful using the app.

I visit the old chapel quite regularly, it is a remarkable building and the food and drink are always spot on. The place itself is always clean and the staff are always friendly. However, recently myself and others who visit with me have recieved some hostile customer service from a girl whos name begins "cl" I wont disclose her name publicly. I think management need to have a word about her attitude as other people in the pub and at the bar have commented on it too.That aside, we would definitely recommend this Wetherspoons to anybody, it is easily the best in Lancashire.

I do love coming to the Chapel, but the food can be a bit hit and miss. My partner says he usually sticks with the steak as every time he orders something else it always tastes like they're cooked on the same grill(he had the all day breakfast this visit, bacon didn't taste right)The order I want has often been out of stock, which is a pain when my partner goes downstairs to order and this happens, as I then have no idea what I'll be eating instead as he has to choose something else for me!On the plus side, the staff are friendly enough and its usually a quick turnaround. And I love the building itself and the spaces between tables make it feel less crowded than some pubs.

Visited the Old Chapel on a Saturday evening and can recommend. Great building, nicely renovated and usual Wetherspoons value. Praise must go to the staff who were friendly and very efficient. Two minutes from railway station and close to Library Theatre.

Good affordable night out. Just very noisy with young adults. Maybe we're getting old! Short stop over venue or early evening mid week more suitable.

Come here quite often with friends and our children, not had a bad meal yet, often order via the app then the children aren’t coming to the bar area and can’t complain at the service, always massive portions and good food too. Prices are very reasonable and parking nearby

Today I when out for tea I ordered southern fried chicken wrap with chips, the southern fried wrap was really good but I wasn't pleased with the less then 10 chips on my plate, you need to sort out your portions out shocking, I left even more hungry

Very roomy and comfortable and ideal for a leisurely breakfast with free coffee re-fills. Food was excellent, service prompt and very reasonably priced .

I normally go into the restaurant with my friends (we are 14 and 15) and have no trouble ordering food.

Me and my friend go to this restaurant quite regularly for dinner . Although today when we went to get some dinner we were refused to be served as we are not 16 (we are 14 and 15). So we had to go elsewhere to eat. When all we wanted we’re some chicken strips and a jacket potato!!!!!

Myself and my family come here often. Not much not to like cheep quick fairy good food for what you pay. Sometimes the food is better then other times but how can you complain for the price you pay! There is a good range of drinks and staff are always very polite. The only thing I don't like is the mess that is left on the floors often but that prob says more about the rude customers then the staff

A family of 8 of us arrived here for a christmas get together so we had two parents age 50-60, two people ages 26 & 30, two aged 23 & 24 with a 6 month old baby in pram, one aged 28 and her son aged 6.The have two young boys on the door aged about 18-19 years old who are supposedly bar staff but as much use as a chocolate fireguard who challenged the 24 yr old male for his ID, he did not have it with him as it was simply a family meal at 7.30 in the evening and besides you allowed in under 18 anyway you just cant purchase alcohol as we all know, but they incompetent bar staff were treating it as we were going into a nightclub...!!!so this is a couple, walking into the Old Chapel pushing a pram. meeting other adults already in the bar and the male is not allowed entery becuase a nursery boy on the door does not know the law they would not let him in, even though he was driving and they had their baby with them.Whats wrong with these people...!!!even if the baby had kicked off she would have knocked 2 bells of SH** out of the little boy on the door,,,!!It also has the reputation for the worst bar staff in town, so expect to be waiting a very long time to get served, just ask any local how bad they are.The manager has no control over the staff in this venue at all, they are all full on lazy and rude.So beware people, if you are trying to go for family meal, then choose somewhere else has if any member of your party has no ID your not going in here..but by the way they let my daughter in with her 6 year old boy so how does that work? a 6 year old can go in with an adult but a 24 year old cant..!!

Been to the Old Chapel today with my family and there were 11 of us and I must say it was very good.

Went withbfriedn from Belgium. Great atmosphere, good service and responsibly priced. Cant fault it really

Enjoyed a first rate breakfast today, maybe the tomato could have been cooked a little more, friendly staff and endless coffee great price as well

Called in here for breakfast whilst passing through the area. The service was quick and plenty of tables. The only thing that let it down, was some of the furniture was starting to look past it’s best. Ultimately it’s a cheap and cheerful spoons, so wouldn’t put me off returning again in the future. You don’t expect 5* in spoons at the end of the day.

I often visit the Old Chapel and find most of the staff pleasant and the food good. However, the place is let down by uncleared tables and today pots and glasses were piled up on window ledges. Despite a waitress clearing pots from the table we sat at, it wasn't wiped and there were marks left. I have even used my own handwipes to clean tables in the past. My husband and I visit many Wetherspoons over the country and this one is by far the worst for clearing up. Whilst the staff look busy there obviously aren't enough of them to keep the place up to standard.

We go to the chapel quite often for food and drinks .its very busy .the foods good and service is good. The last few times we have had fish and chips.its good value .

We enjoy visiting the Chapel on Friday lunchtimes for the fish, chips, peas and drinks offer under £7. It is always freshly prepared and large portions. Love it.

Great venue, great prices and lots of offers available. Really good venue and very much worth the visit.

I’m a frequent visitor to the Chapel.... sometimes it’s excellent, sometimes not so good. The tables though are invariably dirty and often have dirty pots and glasses on. Usually slow service at the bar, better to order on the app. Food is generally very good to Wetherspoons standard.

travelled to Darwen to meet with the heritage group and had 2 brilliant meals here, food was well presented, service pleasant with happy smiling staff and the price was great, we will be calling in again in the future, fantastic atmosphere in a great heritage building

Great locaction right in the centre of the town, cheap food, good quality and a must for families who want to budget. Drinks are cheaply priced and lower than the average pub in the town.

Beautiful building, we were served quickly and great prices for drinks. Sadly didnt need any food but would return to try it one day.

This is an old Methodist Chapel, brilliantly restored. Tim Martin deserves a knighthood for not only providing value for money but especially for saving old buildings from dereliction or demolition. The latter is unfortunately often overlooked and rightly deserves highlighting.

Has too be one of the best of wetherspoons i have visited i could not fault it. I visit the old chapel every time i am over at Darwen. It is quite a large building and the entrance both inside and out make it look very prominent and has bars situated upstairs and down. The meals were of excellant value also. Well worth the visit even if you only want you drop in for a coffee.

We came here for steak night tonight at 8.30 and the entire pub was freezing due to the air conditioning being on full. Then, looking around for a table, it was clear the majority of tables were full of uncollected food and glasses that had been there for some time. We went outside to warm up and the tables out there were dirty too. We decided we wouldn't bother staying for food and went elsewhere instead.

On Friday I had an hour to kill so told my son I would take him for a dessert at the chapel. I ordered his dessert and we both had a drink after waiting 45 minutes I asked when we could expect our food and was told another 10 minutes, we didn't have time to wait so I had to ask for a refund.

Service at the bar was good, the atmosphere was good, clean and comfortable. I just had issue with the bar lady sticking her finger in someone’s vodka and coke to get rid of the bubbles 😧

Great venue but let down by the food. No steaks on Steak Nights and tonight limited choices. No Sirloin, no mixed grills. Ask for a rare rump...it nearly walked to the table itself. Get a grip other spoons offer much better fayre

Go all the time. Its a good spoons, not sure what people can complain for when you get a meal and a pint for 9 quid. This spoons is the cheepest and nicest spoons by fair. Food is good for what it is and buikding is light and friendly. Most are a dingy dive. Friendly staff too

Nicely finished with, as usual, toilets upstairs and appalling waits at the bar. Food decent for price, But toilets regularly disgusting, very dirty and not cleaned up whenever you complain. Noisy and large. Nice side patio.

The Darwen Library Theatre is nearby. Had a steak and chips here before the event which was an evening with Dennis Taylor. The food was very good.

On arrival at The Chapel I was greeted with smiles from the staff who simply could not have been any more helpful , I found a table which was immaculately cleaned and quickly ordered my food and drink via the excellent Wetherspoons App, the food was both deliciously prepared and delivered in no time at all by the most pleasant young man and my drink was equally good, I was so pleased when I was asked if everything was satisfactory and I told the young man it certainly was. I had a couple more drinks again ordered via the App which where also delivered to my table in excellent time. To sum up this is now my go to pub in Darwen and shall remain so whilst the standards are so high .

I'm so disgusted, service is absolutely atrocious. No one comes to you and sits you down and doesn't offer you any drinks and you have to find your own table. I had to order my food at the bar and the bartender was so miserable. The waitress slammed both mine and my partners plates down and walked away. The food was dry and had no flavour and the salad was soggy.

Just had another fantastic meal at Wetherspoons Darwen.I never order sirloin steak when I go out but my daughter always orders this and always says it's beatifull so I thought I would try one .I was not expecting much as at£10.95 including a pint of Guinness how good could it be ?.Boy was I shocked as the quality was unbelievable plus it was cooked to perfection with a barbaqued flavour. I can honestly say it was the best sirloin steak I have ever had accompanied with tomatoe mushroom and jacket potatoe or chips if you prefer. Honestly you could not have cooked it yourself for this price I really don't know how they do it you can see why this chain has rocketed during the last ten years as no one even comes close for value for money and quality produce.I will definitely be going every week from now on as the service was top drawer and the steak just amazing.We are now looking at their hotels as they look incredible and they always seem to look for buildings of outstanding features to turn into hotels and if the rates are as competitive as their pubs we are in for a real treat ! Keep it up Tim you are doing a magnificent job.

We ate upstairs as there was insufficent space downstairs for a party of six. All the tables were piled high with plates from previous diners. I cleared our table as there was " nobody available". I removed the plates onto nearby tables. I then asked for the table to be cleaned, and as there was again " nobody available" I undertook the task. At the end of our meal, probably an hour later, there was still " nobody available". Whose responsibility is this? Do you have any supervision to check these things? Do you think that this is the norm ? Do you expect people to continue to patronise this establishment ?

Good pub to start the away days, food as you would expect good fry up and drinks at a good price. Much better breakfast than the pub just down the road. The pub it's self has been done out yo a high standard.

Good customer service excellent value for money food has always been good. Kids always welcome and menu good to choose from

Wetherspoons is a pub/restaurant I always visit while in England. The Old Chapel one has a beautiful interiors. The service is a little slow but friendly. Food is very good

Went to the Chapel last night for a few drinks. Every table had loads of empty glasses on them, and spill marks. We were there for over two hours and it was only when they were getting ready to close that someone came and took away empty glasses from all the tables. The building itself is gorgeous, the food we’ve had there has been good with good service. I feel the bar staff could do with being trained a little better in ‘who’s next’ rather than serving someone that’s just come in rather than you having been there waiting for over 10 mins. The cleanliness is definitely an issue that needs addressing. There should be someone constantly clearing empty glasses and cleaning the tables rather than leaving them until they’re ready to close. I feel that’s what let’s this place down badly. Please sort that out so we don’t have to sit at dirty tables and can enjoy a few drinks.

Everything was Luke warm at best, fast service though. Ordered through app went fine, dont go a cold day for a hot breakfast because you will be disappointed

I've been here before strictly speaking this is my local but my last review as you will note was not a great experience, I had had a busy day at work and didn't want to cook and didn't want to drive so thought I would bite the bullet and give them another try. My husband ordered burgers along with my son, what could go wrong there and I ordered a rare steak. Basic pub food not much to go wrong. well the onion rings were burnt and the buns stale my steak was over cooked but to be honest I expected it to be as I'm not sure your staff know how to cook a rare or proper medium rare steak as every time i order a steak I get it medium no matter how i order it. Its just disappointing that you cant get it right. I had to ask four times for a cloth to clean my own table. Whilst i appreciate your busy because your cheap some of your staff need to learn manners and some basic customer service. The only time recently I've had a great experience has been for a breakfast when you obviously have completely different staff in the kitchen and staff waiting on the tables who take the time to smile and interact with customers. Its becoming a NO GO PLACE for me my family and friends.

Called again for lunch ordered the all day brunch which is fantastic value for money.unfortunatly the egg was a disaster with no yoke and frazzled edges. I eat what I could and as no one came to ask if everything was ok I took my plate to the kitchen on my way out and suggested that the chef gets a bit more practice before he sends out eggs like that again.the person I spoke to laughed and said he would tell him. I will be calling in again to see if my complaint has had any effect. I am not after discounts but how hard can it be to fry an egg ?

Attended today and had the grilled chicken burger. Straight away I could tell the chicken was old and obviously heated up. I tried to eat it but it was so dry and rubbery.

Called in for a family breakfast on Sunday morning. As I was ordering at the bar the chef(or is it warmer upper?) came down the stairs and shouted over to the bar 'tell em they can't have toast'. The girl serving seemed flustered as she was in the middle of my order. When our food arrived, the server just said we found some toast in the kitchen!!! Like where or how long had it been there etc. Food was extremely average, dry thin bacon, egg yolk hard, one of us ordered mushrooms as a side and got one!!! Table and menus sticky , pretty rubbish really

What a lovey weatherspoons. Best one I've seen. Foods great, even better now you can order at your table via there app. Great atmosphere and affordable beer and wine prices. Free coffee refill. What's not to love

Service staff great but lacking in numbers. Carpets and furniture in need of refurbishment. Chef needs retraining after serving up a burnt Pizza which when replaced was what can only be described as 'rubbery', definitely not freshly made, a re-heat job. No apology from the Duty Manager who did not seem that interested in my initial complaint. No follow up to check the replacement was acceptable. Only ate the replacement due to time restraints and friends present who were not eating. Suggest a Senior Management visit .

we call in at Wetherspoons whenever we visit Darwin and although the beer is brilliant value for money the food sometimes lets it down plus the queuing system at the bar does not work well. Surely you would be better if you just stood at the bar until a waitress takes your order as in most pubs instead of standing in a long single file que with people keep pushing in ? . We called in last week and we thought ah we will get round this queuing system by ordering from the table via the wi-fi app.

Nice pub but the staff do not acknowledge who is next to be served you can stand at the bar 15 minutes and someone can walk up and get served right away not blaming the staff it’s the huge company that do not have enough staff on. I went other night all the tables had not been cleared for hours full of plates one behind the bar it was a joke we walked out and it was a quiet night really a Monday night not as if it’s a weekend. I have been many times before and not really liked the service but the menu not bad it’s pretty cheap and a good choice and believe there is a app now where you can order food and drink and coffee is refillable which is good

We always meet up here with friends, very helpful staff and clean pub, food is priced for everyone’s budgets, burger meal and a pint for around £5.50 bargain ideal in the central of Darwen

I go to the Old Chapel quite regularly with family and friends as it is in a great location for getting there on foot. I really enjoy having drinks there, lots of choice and inexpensive. As for the food, it’s OK. Plenty of choice, portion size is enough to fill you up after a few drinks. The food is affordable and as such, you know exactly what you’re getting. Not great food but certainly not bad either. Service has been ok in my experience. The venue has been nicely designed and decorated and evokes memories of my childhood, shopping in what was then Lodges.

Superb steak today 14oz can’t get this anywhere else for £10, risotto was also excellent and the girl waiting on superb

What can I say. HopHouse 13 for £2.99 a pint. Great selection of real ales and drinks and a great food menu to choose from. Great daily deals on food and drinks will be in a lot more.

Called with wife and daughter for a bite before a show at Darwen Library Theatre.

A stereotypical Wetherspoons but the building in which this is in sets it apart from the rest.