By now we all know exactly what to expect from Lidl. This store is located slightly away from the…read morecentre of Bolton and also its retail parks, meaning that it's not mega busy and actually quite quiet during the day. Which is good for me because I find doing the weekly shop a tiny bit stressful. Just like all the other Lidl stores, there are loads of discounts all over the place and more sweets and chocolate than you could ever possibly want to eat. I always find the packing area at these supermarkets quite stressful. There's not enough space for all your items and you generally, to avoid a making a scene, have to throw the items straight back in the trolley without packing them. It's all quiet annoying really. It's like the staff were desperate to get me through the till quickly despite the fact I was the only customer in the store?! Hmph.

Never ever thought of going in Lidl and right on my doorstep, went in with a friend the other day…read more Brill! not only for very very resonable prices on a lot of items, staff are very friendly !! plenty of movement in the store to shop at a relaxing pace, parking you just can not fault at all drive in tons of space , your the best Lidl !!!

OOPS! Food Clearance is a discount food retailer, they have three locations in the north of…read moreEngland, this location is in Bolton's Central Retail Park, being on Manchester Road it is on the same road as many competitors including ASDA, Iceland and LIDL, the latter of which is a new store, opening in late February 2021. They did have some good deals on milk, this wasn't any specific brand but it did seem cheaper than I've found it anywhere else, by some difference too, it was around 27% cheaper here than many nearby retailers at £0.79 for around 2 litres. The store did have a lot of empty space, it did feel clean but it felt more like a pop-up shop than anything, the doors going into the store felt old, unwelcoming and narrow. The big bulk of items were unbranded, there weren't many things worth shouting about other than the milk offer, the staff seemed disinterested and were just standing around near each other with no acknowledgement of customers. 2* - I'd come in here for milk, or perhaps a look around every now and then, but there are many better similar outlets in the area, if you're looking to go in one or even two shops, I'd give this a miss.

Great customer service, well stocked store and plenty of room between the aisles, very close to…read morehome.

Great local store! Has everything you need and if they don't stock it and you tell them they go out…read moreof their way to try and get it for you, even in the same day! Can't beat service like that! And they even deliver newspapers and magazines. Friendly family run store, need more places like this!

Provenance Food Hall and Restaurant sits on Market Street in Westhoughton, and has always boasted…read morean impressive food hall of local fresh meats, pies, produce and the like, but also has an upstairs restaurant which I've never been to before, so whilst in Westhoughton I thought I'd pop in for some breakfast. The restaurant area is on a first floor mezzanine level, looking down over parts of the food hall like a minstrels gallery. It's decorated in bright and fresh neutral colours, grounded by a natural wooden floor. Light cascades in through sash windows on two walls. Glimpses through cut-outs in the walls show further seating areas, for use in the full restaurant of an evening. I took a menu from the bar and had a read. The breakfast offerings look good, but as I read the menu I realise that the rest of the menu looks superb too! Steak nights, grill nights, Afternoon Teas and all sorts of other tempting things. I already decide before ordering that I must come again to the "proper" restaurant in an evening. I decided to order sourdough toast with whipped butter and marmalade, and a pot of Birchall's English Breakfast Tea, and was told to take a seat anywhere I like and it'd be brought over. I chose to sit by one of the sash windows and look down out over Market Street. Even seated I can see the fine quality finish on everything in this venue; the restaurant is the same quality and fit as the downstairs foodhall, meaning everything is spotless, modern, and pleasant. The staff upstairs seem to be as friendly and helpful as the staff downstairs too. It all feels very professional, whilst still very friendly. I observe other visitors who join after me, a mother and her children enjoying breakfast, some ladies-who-lunch ordering eggs benedict, and two young girls ordering soft drinks. It's nice to see that there's a mix of customers. My breakfast arrives, beautifully presented, but to be honest I wouldn't have expected any less from Provenance from what I've seen. The Fairtrade tea is delicious, and the sourdough toast has a superb crunch to it, the butter and marmalade both being of good quality, meaning you feel a bit spoilt for your breakfast, which can never be a bad thing. It was a very tasty breakfast, and cost less than four quid. Brilliant. Great place, and I can see that the quality and service are priority here, so I look forward to returning to try the evening menu sometime, and was already advised by another staff member to book in advance due to popularity!

I was Really nicely surprised by this place. Outside it's…read morequite unassuming, however inside is open, bright and have a nice atmosphere. Everything is clean and we'll kept; the staff are friendly and helpful. The food is fantastic; bread and pastries are baked fresh on site and there's a great deli downstairs. Prices are very reasonable. I'll definitely be coming here again.

Morrisons pride themselves on being a bit different from other supermarkets in that they want to…read moreappear like the high street of some small northern market town. It's a bit of a naff idea, as at the end of the day we all just go to supermarkets to get our weekly shop and then get the hell out. However, when I popped into this Morrisons, I actually quite enjoyed the difference and the various counters around the store. There's a fishmongers, bakery, deli and even cake shop. It made a nice change to the normal supermarket boredom. The thing I like best about Morrisons is its café. It's always dirt cheap and perfect for a cheap, quick fry-up if you're hungover.

A decent Morrisons store, although it might not be as large/modern as Sainsbury's across the way…read moreand does offer fewer facilities (no mobile scanning or optician/pharmacy), this store is okay. The selection in most areas is fine, and I do like the fact they have Amazon Lockers here which is the one big plus compared to Sainsbury's across the way. The central location makes it easy to access from Bolton town centre, as it is a stone's throw away from the train station and nearby retail park, access as a pedestrian can be a little tricky as it means having to walk the whole length of the road outside, it's a shame they haven't made a cut-through which would be easy to do for any reputable construction company. It was a little hard to find staff members on the shop floor, perhaps this is due to ongoing social distancing guidelines due to COVID-19 as I have begun to notice this more often lately, even at other supermarkets. 3* - OK, worth an upgraded rating.

This Lidl is a new location which opened recently on Manchester Road, in Bolton town centre, with…read moremany supermarkets in Bolton town centre including an ASDA which is across the road, I'm surprised to see them want to open in this location compared to towns which seem more in need of a store, but it is in a good location, it is on multiple bus routes into Bolton Interchange while also having a small car-park. Despite opening only a few days ago, the store still doesn't feel as new as other stores such as the Lidl in Baguley in Wythenshawe, I do feel the store layout could have also been thought out better. I think the bakery should be the first thing you see as you walk in, the smell warms you, even for someone like me who can't eat bread anyway! I also think the toilets are poorly located, despite advertising toilets outside they have a single toilet which is after the check-out, due to the one-way system around the store (This isn't a COVID one-way system), it means you have to go through the checkouts and then out of the store and in again, just to get to the toilet, which makes little sense. This can especially be annoying (whether you want to access the toilet or get in/out of the store without buying anything) as it means having to queue at the checkout, as like most Lidl/Aldi stores I've visited, they always seem to have few checkouts in operation, all of them being very narrow. The selection inside the store was fine, they did have some decent items, while I prefer ASDA across the way, and Sainsbury's on Trinity Street, they did have some good items at better prices than the other supermarkets mentioned, and I do prefer this to the Morrisons location also in Bolton town centre. The staff seemed friendly enough, they were happy to point me in the direction of the bathrooms which are poorly signposted. 3*

The food weigh house is a really good shop to buy all of your loose food. it is cheap and you can…read morebuy as much as you want to without buying too much. The shop mainly sells sweets but is also sells anything from spices to flour to soap powder to crisps to cake mix it even sells hamster bedding and hamster food to fruit and vegetables. Great value for money.