First visited : 5th October 2011
This pub is still going strong but has now been renamed The Ainsworth Arms. It stands at the traffic lights where the A58 bisects the B6292 linking Ainsworth and Radcliffe.
I could have visited it twenty years earlier when my car (my first, an ex-army left hand drive Vauxhall Chevette ) started blowing excessive amounts of steam at the lights here on the way to a pre-season game at Bolton in August 1991. We ( my friends Carl and Sean were with me ) decided to stay with the car while waiting for the RAC rather than going in the pub. It turned out the head gasket had gone but it was safe enough to complete the journey and we caught the last 20 minutes for which the man at the turnstiles didn't charge us.
It's more of a restaurant than a pub now. I went on a Wednesday lunchtime for the carvery advertised outside. They have a special deal for pensioners so unsurprisingly they made up the bulk of the clientele. I can't quite recommend it. The choice was pork roll, beef ( from a joint which had nearly disappeared ) and a piece of overcooked pie ( probably replacing something else they'd run out of ). It was nice enough but the portions were stingy particularly as the pork was three quarters rind, fat and stuffing. For £5.95 it was acceptable, any dearer and I'd have felt a bit cheated.
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