The best restaurants in Ribble Valley North West

What a fabulous evening we had. The food was excellent and the staff were so efficient and friendly. Never seen such a long list of desserts!!! Wonderful! Thoroughly recommended.

Warm welcome from the Team, booking in for our stay was seamless, lovely room well appointed with all our needs catered for. Excellent food, in lovely surroundings served by pleasant staff, what's not to like.

Service is great. Food is the best we’ve ever tasted. Second visit and will be returning as soon as we can. Cocktails were immaculate.

As a wedding venue this place is amazing. The food, setting, everything for the wedding was perfect. We have a really lovely day. Our problem was the rooms. We had room 4 which has no window to the outside. There is a frosted window to a corridor. No air conditioning or ventilation and a small double bed. This was just horrendous, we got a taxi back to Bolton at 1.30am as we couldn’t sleep. Several of the rooms are the same with no window to the outside. I’m abit claustrophobic so this was just awful. The room needs a king size bed and at least a fan / air conditioning.

Called into after visiting an attraction 10 minutes away. So glad we found it after a quick google map search. With a tired 2 year old some pub staff would pull their face but here they were great and so accommodating. They brought out his good first and one he got stuck in his mood changed. The food for all of us was great and we couldn’t finish it. The service was impeccable and it was great to see a lively, upbeat pub/restaurant/inn doing so well. Plenty of others including our local could learn a lot from them. We also loved the resident dogs coming to say hello. Thanks for a great end to a lovely, sunny Sunday.

Very good quality food. Served to please the eye, as well as the taste buds. The hotel part of it is fantastic, a spacious room with a king-size bed and a roomy shower. Large carpark.

Absolutely beautiful welcoming and amazing place to visit. The food was delightful, the coffee was so tasty and welcomed. The ladies who served us were so happy and genuinely nice I would definitely recommend a visit. The menu was varied and catered for vegetarian and vegans also. The price was really good for what you get x

Service was VERY slow, steak was cold then reheated in the microwave and pizza looked and tasted like a store brought frozen one.

Went for lunch one Sunday in December. The place was mostly empty, only a couple of other tables in and two blokes drinking and playing the fruity. It was actually closing and being sold the following weekend, which I was unaware of, not living in Longridge. Food was decent and big portions. Service wasn’t great, just disinterested kids running the place who seemed irritated any time they had to get off their phones and do something. Wouldn’t go back.

When booking I specified that I was intolerant to dairy and wheat and that my wife was on the banting diet so no carbs. I was very surprised that no effort had been made to put on starters that I could eat. All I could choose from was Soup or the day, Chicken Liver Pate or Sticky Chicken Wings. I chose the latter. There was little to no meat on the wings and they were heavily spiced with chilli and not to my liking at all. Personally, I would have preferred, scallops, prawn cocktail or garlic prawns. My wife loved her Grilled Halloumi. For mains I chose Sirloin Steak with no tomatoes and some asparagus and my wife the Braised Lamb Henry. I asked for my steak extremely well done/cremated. It was medium to well done and not really to my liking as it was very watery as if it had been defrosted from frozen. The chips and mushrooms were good but alas the Asparagus was tinned, had that been mentioned I would have had frozen peas instead. My wife's lamb was smothered in way too much gravy and was not as good as on previous occasions. In the past we have been very happy with the food and the service at this restaurant but alas the quality of the food and the menu selection has gotten worse on each visit. We have enjoyed the times we have had here but this will become our last choice in restaurants to visit in future.

Actually it was a take-away. At £46 not as cheap as previously. No w no free delivery for spending over £15. Delivery charge, by Foodhub. OK only £2.50. It becomes worse. Poppadoms and sauces were free. Now itemised. Fine. Told them over phone no lime pickle. So they decided to send an unasked for Chilli pickle. If I do not like lime am I likely to like Chilli? Food acceptable. Even the delivery driver apologised for delivery charge. Said many people had said same. And hence did not give tips. I did. However may well be last time I deal with this restaurant. Reminds one of dear places where there is a charge for everything, even a small portion of peas.

Actually it was a take-away. At £46 not as cheap as previously. No w no free delivery for spending over £15. Delivery charge, by Foodhub. OK only £2.50. It becomes worse. Poppadoms and sauces were free. Now itemised. Fine. Told them over phone no lime pickle. So they decided to send an unasked for Chilli pickle. If I do not like lime am I likely to like Chilli? Food acceptable. Even the delivery driver apologised for delivery charge. Said many people had said same. And hence did not give tips. I did. However may well be last time I deal with this restaurant. Reminds one of dear places where there is a charge for everything, even a small portion of peas.

My family of 6 decided it would be nice to meet up for lunch and chose The Pavilion as our venue. We arrived at 12:30 and there were a couple of tables of people in front of us. It was drizzling with rain and you have to queue outdoors, so not the best start. When it was our turn we were told all the tables for 6 were full. We asked is there a waiting list to which we were told no - you just have to wait or come back. As it was raining we asked when we should come back (as we thought a look around Shackleton would be nice) we were told an hour. So at 1:30 we went back and queue again to be told all the tables for 6 had filled again. So we asked can we get a table for 4 and a table for 2. We queued again and long story short - eventually around 2pm were allowed in the cafe and they put two tables together for us. Drinks order taken - great. Food order taken great (or so we thought). After about 45 minutes we were approached and told the tablet the order was taken on, had not sent it through to the kitchen!!!! Not so great! The order was then taken using good old paper and pen. To be fair we were given a complimentary round of drinks and our order was then prioritised and arrived within a reasonable timescale, given we all had something different to eat. Now on a very positive note the food and presentation was excellent. Good size portions, well cooked and very tasty. Everyone enjoyed their meal. Once seated we were looked after by Andrea who quite honestly saved the day, she was very much customer focused and was a people person who wanted to give a good service. This was a complete contrast to the person who was managing the door and table allocation, who was quite abrupt and gave the impression that nothing was their fault and they could do no wrong. In summary, we can highly recommend the food but the system to getting to a table on a wet day just does not work. We all thought the Pavilion needs to rethink their waiting procedures. Invest in Restaurant Pagers and make a name list for tables or at least make a name list (not bothered they dont take actual bookings as I am sure people would let them down) but if you have arrived and are around and about it’s highly likely you really do want a table. Maybe even a tannoy system with a number being called when a table becomes available. I think they are also missing a trick, as if people had pagers or there was a tannoy then customers might go and brows around Shackletons and as a result some people might make spur of the moment purchases too. We also noted there were a number of elderly people queuing who were struggling to stand for such a long time and in the rain. We appreciate it was busy and they can’t control the weather, but with a little more thought and a slight adjustment here and there, our visit could have been be a much better experience.

The best Sunday roast going, service was spot on, the gravy and the beef where the best I’ve ever tasted, topped off with the best Yorkshire pudding I’ve ever had. Reasonably priced and lovely big portions, would 1000% go again

I hadn't been in Tastebuds for some time for a breakfast so today I thought I'd give it a try. I t was busy and so I was prepared to wait, 40 mins. later I got my food, some of it was warm some was cold(tomato) the sausage was well cooked and hard on one side and hard to cut through and the bacon... must have been the smallest piece I have ever had, the egg when picked up dropped to bits, oh the mushrooms were ok and at £8.95 I thought it was very overpriced for the quality and what I got.