Bolstermoor Coffee Shop — Restaurant in Kirklees

The main meals are generally very good - large tasty portions but the breakfasts need much better presentation - I wouldn’t go so far to call it slop but more like breakfast soup. I’m not a fan of wet meals and most places (apart from greasy spoons) serve their beans in ramekins but not here, so you end up with a very wet plate composed of mainly the wetness from the chopped tomatoes (again on a breakfast I expected the tomatoes to be halved and grilled/fried, not a spoonful of chopped tomatoes), mushroom juice and bean juice onto which they place the beans everything else (sausage, hash browns, bacon, black pudding) so any crispness is immediately lost. The fried egg was just plonked on top of it all. Definitely can’t recommend the breakfast - stick to the mains. The drink prices (coffee) are also pretty steep and they come out pretty much immediately, so by the time you’ve received your food you’ve finished your drink - I recommend asking them to be served at the same time as your...

Went to the farm shop but decided to have lunch first. Bit dissapointed this time as i opted for the pie, chips and peas. Bit overpriced for what you get but tried it anyway. Pie was hot on the outside but only warm on the inside and the gravy or whatever it was in the pie gloopy not pleasant. The peas were warm and the gravy in a jug watery and not much flavour. My wife had a cheese and tomato pannini which was perfect. I will say that the food has always been good on previous visits. Cafe is nice and clean and the staff efficient and friendly. We shopped in the adjacent farm shop. Prices a bit on the high side but quality is what we are paying for. Far more taste than the supermarket rubbish they churn out. I'm sure the lamb shanks, pastries and extras we purchased will be just as good...

It was OK, but not ideal in many ways. The menu seems unimaginative, with old standards and nothing really interesting. It seems the most contemporary dish is panini. Still, they get the customers rolling in, so I acknowledge that I'm not part of the target market. The most difficult aspect is the extreme noise from the collection of plates, clearing tables, which seems to need crockery being banged together very loudly. Worse, the frequent rearrangement of tables and chairs as different sized groups come in requires the dragging of tables and chairs around, since no one has learned that picking them up would be silent. I guess that the extreme noise of crockery and furniture is part of the charm that just does not work with me.

The food was fresh, nicely presented and was...