I'll be interested to try the Butlers when I next back up, my old local. Used to be a great 'drinking' pub back in the day but always thought it was in a great position for a restaurant. The view sitting out the back in summer with the sun setting over Hoghton Hill is fabulous.

Been @#/? food for years there.....

2 for Joy - In a State

Pressure Drop - Feeling Good

Agadoo - Black Lace

New World Order - Galliano

F**k the Police - NWA

Song for LIfe - Leftfield

I wonder if our home cooking expert Sparky Marky employs the same line of thought over drinking? Supermarket tinnies and wines are cheap as chips whilst pub prices can be horrific, but what sort of a Billy No-Mates wants to be drinking every night home alone?

I do not drink my friend. Nish, nothing, alcohol is not my thing.....

they all seem to have at least halve a dozen staff behind the counter as well, no way there making their money from selling cheap pizzas and kebabs!

You never tried a Chesters special in leyland.....??

Lets say that the pizza and kebabs are delivered with a special ingredient

I don't understand how the takeaway shops survive given the lack of nightlife in Blackburn. They surely can't all make their living out of the Postal Order clientele?

The same way many sunbed shops seem to be open and nothing going on.......it's called money laundering.

Are you being serious?....any knob can cook gammon. Why go out and pay someone else to cook it for you...? Especially at them prices. If I am to eat out and pay then I always like to have something that I don't think I could make....curry(can you make a curry like a restaurant? The Oliver Press in Preston make a duck ragu that is just fabulous....the clog used to do a crab cake with a caper sauce ..).just a few examples...I could never cook any of these things like that and therefore I pay for it.....

Spout House is very good and SHOULD be used in preference to the supermarkets. Bit like in rural France where local quality food is placed above mass produced quantity every time. So too should Pauls Farm produce at the top of Dunkirk Lane, Leyland for their excellent quality fresh fruit and veg.

Moving on. Despite having a new kitchen fitted last week I allowed er indoors to cajole me into eating out last night and give the newly refurbished Butlers Arms a go. As with most unplanned impromtu stuff it turned out to be an excellent night. A number of close friends had done the same and as we had all arrived at the same time a table for eight was quickly arranged. I had moules mariniere to start and gammon for mains whilst the missus elected to have a sirloin steak. I've no idea who supplies their meat but the gammon was absolutely excellent, thick and juicy with no fat or gristle as can frequently be the case and the three who had the sirloin all praised it highly. Good reports too for the Butlers burger and the Fish and Chips. Everybody was too full for puddings and the night turned even better and gained a party flavour when another four friends turned up for drinks after having eaten at the Oyster & Otter.

Early days as yet but I must say the new Butlers does remind me somewhat of the O&O in that they do appear to be doing most things right. However like the Clog and the O&O it is not cheap rendering it a bit of a stretch for weekdays and I wonder if there are enough customers to go around all these eateries at the weekends. Personally if I were a landlord I'd be looking to provide a cheaper weekday option as the prospect of deciding whether to eat in or out during the week is simply not an option with the prices involved. All the while the Dressers continues to pack em in with their 'pile it high' Steak nights. Personally I wouldn't want to do a steak night all that often but a clean, cheap and cheerful option with a simple but attractive home made 'Mon-Thurs' menu would be nice.

Steak, gammon, burgers....sounds like brewers fare. I never eat in a place where I can cook the menu.

King of the Beats - Mantronix

its just chicken...how can it be disgusting? Keaning.retard. Its ok for a quick bite....certainly better than some @#/? out there

Blue Monday - New Order

All depends on Toog's religious persuasion I would reckon. I reckon they're big on this....

Young MC - Principal's Office

Charles B - Lack of Love

I'm Free - Soup Dragons

Evoke - Arms of Loren

Sagar premieri n clayton le woods is a decent indian....

I shall remember that when Im in Gent...

Park Plaza Hotel by Westminster Bridge last night, food and Hotel were spectacular

Get you.

WHERE DOES HORSE RADISH SAUCE COME FROM?

Gerrard has a bar in southport I think....might be the reason.

Bullshitt P.R. and Dirtyness