Prince of Wales

You'll find the Prince of Wales doing what it does best: serving proper pints to people who've been coming here for years. It's the kind of place where the barkeep knows your order before you ask, the carpet's seen better days, and nobody's pretending to be anywhere fancier than Wigan. There's a real community feel—darts boards, regular faces, the occasional bit of banter. It's not trying to be Instagram-worthy or reinvented; it's just reliably itself. If you want craft cocktails and exposed brick, head into town. If you want a proper pint and genuine locals, Woodhouse Lane's got you sorted.