Lost restaurant just off the M6 where Lancashire families ate everything they could
It once had customers queuing round the block and later caused outrage with an ostentatious paint job - but it is fondly remembered by those who ate there.
Customers could enjoy anything from soup, salads and curries to pasta, burger and chips, pizza and more. If you fancied something sweet, you could also head to the dessert stations. The article described customers queuing round the block, despite the recession, with the giant 150ft buffet bar displaying 'the staples of family food – a carvery, roast chicken, burgers, pizza, Bakewell and treacle tarts'.
Designers had transformed the Marus Bridge restaurant's exterior from brick and wooden panelling to bright orange cladding, but two Wigan councillors, father and son Bill and Gary Wilkes, felt it created the 'wrong impression,' as the restaurant was one of the first buildings visitors to Wigan see as they leave the M6.