The best restaurants in Earby Pendle North West

Excellent hosts and a lovely friendly atmosphere. We always get a lovely welcome here! The White Lion is a very old traditional inn, that has been modernised but still retains its charm. We last visited on a Sunday evening and enjoyed a live acoustic music event which is held there each month. The pub provided supper for the musicians, which on this occasion was delicious pizzas. We found the hosts to be welcoming, friendly and generous. Would highly recommend.

A really disappointing evening. 15 of us had booked for an evening meal for our quarterly family get-together, and actually felt a good vibe when we first walked in. The restaurant area has a lovely cosy feel and the staff were really friendly and welcoming. Once all the party arrived and food was ordered, we then waited over an hour for our meals to be served; we watched as groups who had come in after us ordered their meals and were served their food well before we got ours. We also had 3 children under 5 with us who only ordered cheesy pasta but still waited over an hour for this! We had asked if the kids meals could come out when they were ready, to be told yes, however they still arrived with the rest of the meals and were piping hot so inedible for at least 10 minutes after being served. There was only 1 apology from a staff member for the delay, but no other updates or apologies. To make matters worse, when the food eventually arrived it was mostly overcooked and you could tell most meals had been sat on the pass “keeping warm” whilst the other meals were cooked. We left feeling underwhelmed and unfortunately still somewhat hungry; our table was booked for 6:30pm and we weren’t served our food until just before 8pm so weren’t leaving the restaurant until gone 9pm. Really unacceptable for anyone to wait that long for a meal, especially groups with young children. Unfortunately it won’t be somewhere we will be returning.