The Airedale Heifer — Restaurant in Kirklees

Oh, wow.

Off the back of a FB recommendation by Richard Tree, we decided to treat my father and also my brothers visiting friend from the US to a nice pub lunch at the Airedale Heifer, Mirfield - I rang ahead to check if we could get a table for half two.

As it happened, the doors opened shortly before then and Ashley, the brand new landlady, was on her own, looking after the venue which she had only just taken on board, running the place. She warmly welcomed us, gave us a background to her taking on the venue and then took to the kitchen to cook a monster order we gave her.

Me and Paul had the Mega Meat Platter, Carol had the Buttermilk Chicken Burger and Caroline had the five starter dishes deal - a lot of food for the lot of us with any excess heading to dads small plate to nibble at.

While the Platters were all incredible, and Carol gave the chicken burger a solid thumbs up, the standout for us was the Fried Cauliflower Wings with Ginger and Soy Sauce - truly moreish and I couldn’t stop picking at them, even when the stunning meats had filled me up (the chicken was a highlight, utterly buttery).

The Airedale is a great venue with a cracking bar, a marvellous menu and a very warm welcome: highly, highly...

We went back to the Heifer as we’d had a good experience on a previous visit, but we were disappointed this time. The previous landlady has left and the pub appears “rudderless”. Whilst my food was good, other meals in the party were average. The service wasn’t the best and staff appeared to lack motivation and training. For a Thursday night the pub was very quiet and we were the only people dining.

We really hope the pub gets back on its feet soon. As it stands the owners will regret not working harder to retain the...

After driving past The Airdale Heifer a few times and thinking that it looks like areally nice pub, we decided to go for Saturday tea - on arriving there wasn't any cars in the car park which we though "oh dear not a good sign" however we decided to still go in. Lovely welcome from staff, the food we had was really good from the sports bar menu basically burgers and hot dogs, not what I was hoping for having looked at the menu on line !!! would definitely go back though as the food was good quality...