Hebden Sarnies — Restaurant in Calderdale

SECOND EDIT: The owner has obviously added several new reviews to his faltering business (around 10 added today and each profile only has one review, which is Hebden Sarnies). Had the owner not been so disrespectful to us yesterday he wouldn’t have had to go through all this effort..

EDIT: The “vegan cheese” was not vegan as my husband has now come out in welts as he is allergic to milk. Expect a visit from environmental health.

Boasts fantastic sarnies but my experience today I beg to differ. See photos below for two sandwiches that cost £22.50. High school panini bread and served in a cardboard box. I was expecting artisan sourdough bread packed with flavour and ingredients -as stated in the description- for the price. Meat tasted of actual poo so asked if I could have a refund as I couldn’t wait another half hour to be served. I’d taken one bite of it and was met with a piece of rock solid mass in my mouth. Asked the waitress (who was actually lovely) if we could have a refund as we had a day out planned and didn’t have time to wait. We could see her (poor thing) approach the owner and ask if we could have a refund. We could see him fling his arms around so we knew the answer, which he bluntly told us was no as he said “there is nothing wrong with the food.”

My husband approached and we could smell the tobacco on his clothes from the till. Upon approaching the open kitchen we could see his packet of tobacco littered across the work surface. Chef was unwashed and stank.

Regardless, young lasses serving us were lovely but the food tasted like actual faeces and half the ingredients were missing. Two below-average sandwiches and two tins of Diet Coke for £22.50. We will not...

Friendly staff and nice interior/branding, however the food and drinks need a bit of work :-(

The concept of a café masquerading as somewhere which serves speciality/barista coffee and then getting it wrong isn't a new one (they are ten a penny).

However the two 'oat milk flat whites' that we were served were probably the furthest thing from a flat white that I've ever been charged for in a café.

No microfoam at all, burnt milk and I'm also fairly certain we were served soy based on the taste. The person serving us knew the drinks weren't correct but served us them anyway. We ordered to drink in but were served in takeaway cups with the lids on, probably to hide the error.

Then, one of the meals to go was completely wrong (partner ordered a salad but was served a sandwich, no good if you are a coeliac!) and my meatless sub had completely congealed into a sloppy mess by the time I went to eat it (due to the fact the food is served in plastic-lined cardboard boxes).

By all means support this independent business as they've only been open 6 months, but as paying customers make sure you're getting served the right drinks and food before parting with your cash and...

Three different sandwiches bought, all value for money, all heading for something very special but none of them quite got there.

Yorkshire gangster - beef sandwich, gherkins, sauce. Decent amount of beef but over cooked and big pieces so impossible to take a bite without pulling the full piece of beef out of the sandwich, good amount of beef though. Too much sauce, whole sandwich tasted of sauce. Fantastic focaccia.

Big mark - good homemade patties, far too much sauce. Whole sandwich tasted of sauce.

BLT - loads of good quality bacon which was great, but the bread was toasted on the same griddle which meant the whole thing was a bit too salty. Could’ve been compensated by some more tomato or roasted tomatoes for sweetness. The halloumi didn’t add. Also, again, too much sauce.

However, overall pretty good. Would’ve been 4 stars except we asked for breakfasts and were told they’d stopped serving breakfasts. We’d checked everywhere on the menu, checked the boards, nowhere was there a time for the breakfasts. I find this exceptionally irritating - we nearly left instead of ordering an...