The Bolton pub which customers travel to from far and wide
The Hulton Arms on Newbrook Road is one of the 10 finalists in The Bolton News' Best Pub award.
The public house, situated on one corner of the busy Four Lane Ends junction, boasts well-priced homemade food, regular gigs and a community feel.
It also has a beer garden, Sky Sports and BT Sports channels, pool, darts and more.
The Hulton Arms has been under its current owners, Adam Griffiths and Sharron Buller, since June 2023.
One of the owners, Sharon Buller (Image: Hulton Arms) General manager, Jorden Rawlinson, said: "We do traditional home cooked food, served to a high quality. We have customers travel from all over Greater Manchester and Lancashire for our food.
"We have proper homemade chips, which are hand cooked, people love them, and we have quite a vast menu.
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"Our pizzas are homemade in a stone baked oven, it was one of the additions on our new menu a couple of months ago."
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Beer garden (Image: The Hulton Arms) From Monday to Friday, all main meals at the pub are two for £18, with light bites two for £13.
Jorden added: "Our staff are very welcoming, friendly and accommodating, it is a community pub in essence, people like to come here.
"It is a very charitable pub, we like to help charities with fundraisers."
"I think the community feel makes it unique, as well as the fresh food. There are not many pubs you can go these days with fresh food, and you can tell the difference when you have it."
A pizza (Image: Hulton Arms)
The Hulton Arms also has a range of music which plays on a regular basis. For a list of acts, see their Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HultonArms16/
Jorden said: "On Fridays we have solo or duo artists and on Saturdays we have bands, DJs, tributes, which people travel from far and wide for.
"We have bands from as far as the Midlands who come to play."
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