About Little Jak’s Pantry Little Jak's is a caterers based in Tyldesley town centre, providing a traditional buffet and catering service throughout the areas of Bolton, Wigan and Manchester. We have over 30 years experience in the catering trade, having worked previously in various sectors of the business, including cafes, restaurants, hotels and the leisure and entertainments industry. Little Jak's was established in April 2006 and is named in memory of the owner’s first son, Jak Thomas. For 14 years we also operated as a cafe, but in 2020 we decided to discontinue the cafe and move to different premises in order to concentrate fully on our buffet and catering service. Celebrity Diner We were once visited by a member of the Royle family, when actor Ricky Tomlinson and a film crew called in the cafe for something to eat. They had been filming a TV documentary in Astley and Leigh about the coal mining industry, called Disappearing Britain, which was first shown on Channel 5 in early 2007.