Ling Bob — Restaurant in Bradford

I review food and food establishments. Read this for an honest review. Me and my other half came to ling Bob because the website looked good and the establishment it's self looked nice. To be honest it was absolutely amazing food. Actual autnetic Greek recipe's. The burger was very mouth watering, covered in cheese and beautiful relish. The chicken in the burger was covered in a lovely crispy spicey batter. The bun was a lovely brioche bun with the "x" sign cut on the top. The chips are not home made but with the price it doesn't really matter to be honest, they we're still nice and crisp. The side of onion rings was absolutely gorgeous with crispy home made batter. We got about 10 big onion rings for 2.50 I think the price was!!!. The Greek lamb kebab was very soft and tender as well as the pitta. The price was bang on for what we had. The lamb kebabs had a lovely Greek sauce and they we're seasoned good with mint!. The only thing I can put a downer on is, I wanted a Greek lamb kebab but I wanted grilled chicken pieces with it as I like to eat grilled chicken with Greek kebabs as that's what I get when I go to other similar places. But the owner just refused to do it for me for some reason. He did say he wouldn't know how to charge me for it but other places just stick another few quid on the bill. It was a more expensive dish than the burger as well so it didn't make sense that he didn't want to make more money by doing that? He was polite but needed to smile abit more lol... We will be back very soon for one of them lovely burgers.. The young lad working at the bar with glasses was very polite and we'll spoken. It's had a lovely refurbishment as well. ...

Popped in for tea on a Saturday night and hadn't realised that booking is advised. However, the owner was brilliant, and managed to squeeze us in.

Service was excellent throughout, with both owners/managers very personable, knowledgeable, and helpful.

Lovely little place, that feels cozy and welcoming - though for me personally it was too warm with the two open fires. However I know others who would have really appreciated them! Proper local pub in a way, full of special evenings for quizzes, cheaper drinks, parties, and more. Brilliant selection of lagers both alcoholic and also non alcoholic which was nice to see.

The food.... Well, just wow. There's a very special specials board, with some very unusual and interesting dishes. I went for a special starter of king prawns and roasted grapes, and it was outstanding! The game pie sounded phenomenal too, but I just wasn't hungry enough to have done it justice, so opted for a couple of other starters. My partner meanwhile went for the big fat greek grill, and he was not disappointed! The plate was laden with expertly cooked meat, and very interesting sides.

We both then finished with the orange semolina cake, and it's not something you want to miss out on. However, I suspect the chocolate ice cream it came with was bought in, as it didn't taste as high quality as everything else we'd had to eat. So that was a tiny disappointment in an evening of excellent food and drink.

We will definitely be returning again, because there were so many things on the menu we wanted to try, and the quality was excellent. Definitely not one to miss, but do phone and book in case you aren't as lucky as we were and they can't...

The last time that I visited the Ling Bob was to hear a folk band play something like half a century ago. Then it was a semi-rural local, fairly cheap and very cheerful. It's metamorphised into essentially a restaurant with friendly hosts. It's still possible to go for a drink, and there's a good selection on draught, but it really does not feel like a pub in the way that it used to. The restaurant is brilliant. We had homemade steak pie: totally delicious and a credit to the chef. We were lucky to get a table on Sunday at lunchtime. Although it was empty when we arrived (sometime between 12 and 1) most of the tables were reserved and it soon filled up, so reservations are advised.

It's run by a couple, and the male half is of Greek origin, which is reflected in the menu offerings, but happily a good honest pie served with chips was also available.

Highly recommended as somewhere to eat. We'll be back next time business takes...