The Puckersley Inn Royton - Full Menu

The pork belly rice bowl with kimchi and crispy kale is amazing. The cottage pie also excellent. Clearly the chef is very good. Excellent price too, the pork an... read more The pork belly rice bowl with kimchi and crispy kale is amazing. The cottage pie also excellent. Clearly the chef is very good. Excellent price too, the pork and rice dish just £12. As a JW Lees pub there are the usual tasty beers on the tap.

Our second visit was even better than our first and that was great! My wife and I visited the Puckersley with friends who live close by. It was our second visit... read more Our second visit was even better than our first and that was great! My wife and I visited the Puckersley with friends who live close by. It was our second visit and we remembered that the food was good. A new menu had been introduced just that evening (Friday the 13th) and I noticed a selection of “Rice Bowls” from which I chose the King Prawn option. I can’t fully remember the menu description but it was something like “Salt and Pepper Spicy King Prawns Rice Bowl” MY GOODNESS! I have eaten in some fancy places and never have I been more surprised and delighted by a dish than I was that night. It was served beautifully, the prawns were lightly battered like Tempura prawns they were on a bed of egg fried rice surrounded by a lovely sauce containing goodness knows how many different chilli peppers and beautifully diced vegetables. It was even more enhanced by some greenery (sorry, i forgot what it was) which reminded me of a lightly fried rocket which just melted in your mouth. The dish is a TRIUMPH and must not be missed. I look forward to trying the other versions of this dish on our next visit and we will certainly visit again. Our friends ordered steaks which arrived cooked exactly as they requested which is unusual in itself but not, our friends say, at the Puckersley! My wife could only look enviously at my bowl but fortunately reported that her Scampi was excellent too. The waiting staff (All girls as it happened) were very happy, smiling and extremely efficient too. DO NOT MISS THIS PUB, IT IS A GEM.