Pub review: Inside Lancashire’s Freemasons at Wiswell, officially one of Britain’s best gastropubs

I watch the film Boiling Point a few days before taking a kitchen-counter seat at Freemasons at Wiswell, officially Britain’s fifth-best gastropub. If you’ve not seen it, the one-shot Netflix film goes behind the scenes in a trendy London restaurant, as head chef Andy Jones, played by Stephen Graham, gets in over his head in the kitchen’s pressure-cooker environment.

But don’t let the movie put you off the Freemasons ‘Kitchen Bench’ experience.

The fictional kitchen, with its knife-edge tension, and the one in the pub are chalk and cheese.