22 Bar & Smokehouse in Calderdale

Great food and staff to match. Very friendly and informal.

Had a bottomless brunch, thought organisation could have been better all encouraged to order individual but came as whole platter some people paid extra and didn't get what they ordered was put in wrong table, and cocktails were upto a certain time but were debating whether we could have top up even though it was within time. They gave it us but spoilt experience. Staff helpful thought portions of food were small too, although what we had was very nice

We went for lunch. The server was a nice guy but I don’t think he understood us. My friend got what she ordered and I ordered the hunters chicken. I asked if it came with anything but then I saw on the menu that it came with chips so I said it’s ok it comes with chips. When he brought it out the plate was piled high with a thousand chips, which I couldn’t eat. And when we went to pay he charged us extra for chips. I said but it came with chips and he took it off for us. So he was nice but it was a misunderstanding.

Absolutely superb food...but the staff were, without doubt, the most miserable bunch I have ever been served by. Impossible to get a smile, and no rapport - even got blanked when I smiled and say hello. No interaction whatsoever. Orders taken without the server speaking - just eye contact to indicate it was your turn to order. If you want a drink you may as well serve yourself as we had to call staff over every time. No wonder it was dead on a Friday night. Where was the management?

We went on a Saturday, quite loud with hen parties and football on. Great atmosphere though! Food was amazing! Excellent portions

From what I remember I enjoyed the food, cos I definitely enjoyed the cocktails

Nice belly pork, terrible burger. Fair play, they took the burger off the bill, but it could have been nicer and be paid for. Shame, was expecting great things. Hope the turn this experience around for other diners

Fantastic place, I recommend the ribeye steak, this was cooked to perfection,could even cut it with a butter knife, the peppercorn sauce was awesome and complimented the steak. My wife also had the ribeye and she never orders steak out but she loved it too. Now I'm 38 and like loud music but it was a little loud so it was hard to have a conversation, but apart from that it was an awesome night out and will be going again, but next time I'm pre-ordering the tomahawk steak!!!!!! 🤤🤤.

Great food, great price and very friendly staf

Great food although I do miss some of the items from the old menu. Great serving staff who are very friendly and make you feel welcome. Do wish they had baby-changing facilities and taller highchairs for the height of the tables as my little one could barely reach his food. Parking is also very limited.

Quite possible the worst burger I have ever had, very cheap ingredients and the staff didn’t really care. My burger fell apart once I picked it up and was very small and tasteless. Very limited menu and no smoked meats just basic food that they can’t even get right. I won’t be returning as there are many places that are way better than this place. They need a decent chef that can cook!

Service is very beautiful, waiter Sahar is amazing, thank you very much Sarah for attention

Service was first class, wide variety of food and drinks and all 11 meals were fully eaten, really great food. Would definitely go again

If I could leave 0 stars I would… Food was absolutely disgusting! We got two burgers at £15 each, we paid a £5 deposit each before we even got there even though the place was basically empty upon arrival. Asked for no jack cheese on the burger and the burger was brought out with jack cheese, the waiter than came over and said she thought I’d ask for cheese on the burger as if I didn’t know what I had ordered. They then brought me a new meal out in record time of 3 minutes which makes me think the food is precooked and rewarmed. All I could taste was burnt food, I didn’t eat my meal so requested that I didn’t pay for it, however waiter said they knocked the ten pound deposit off and £10 for my meal, we got two £15 burgers and 2 drinks and somehow still paid £26 for food that wasn’t even eaten! Absolutely shocking place would NEVER go back. They sell better burgers in mcdonalds!

Very loud , poor menu , staff unknowledgeable Wouldn't go back again

Great food and great atmosphere.

Nice place although having the restaurant area next to an access door to the car park would make it chilly for diners. Good selection of drinks although no cask beers. Food starters were brilliant, pulled pork and chorizo balls and bruchetta particular highlights. The Mexican chicken not good, I'd expect more than doritos with a few 'straight from the jar' jalapeños and a dry (quite thin) chicken breast with melted cheese and a few cut tomatoes on top. Disappointing after the starters. Gents toilets could do with a makeover, hand drier above a radiator? The said radiator is rusting badly (wonder why?) As are the brackets that used to hold the liquid soap dispensers. You can tell a lot about a place by their restrooms.

Steak just a lump of gristle could not eat it

A little dissapointed with quality and service of food and long delays to order and between service. Serving staff very apologetic and tried their best to help. Will try again but NOT on a weekend.

Food was nice and service good too. The reason for the rating is we went for a smokehouse. They might as well call themselves a curry house or a fish and chip shop, they sell neither of those things either. No smoke BBQ happens here. It is not a smokehouse.

I go here quite often after a ride on my motorbike. Really chill atmosphere and great staff.

Booked a table for 14. Bearing in mind that we pre booked a day in advance the child's burgers were burnt, adult burgers overcooked. Food reheated. The manager was so arrogant and refused to admit that the food was subpar and only offered a10% discount, only after pressure increasing to a 20% discount on the whole order despite only 3 out of 14 eating their meal. If I could give 0 stars i would. The only saving grace was the serving staff who are lovely. Avoid for food at all costs!!

Drinks were great but food was shocking. Couldn't fault the service and when I spoke to the manager about the food he knocked some money off the bill. Can't day I would go back for food though.

Beautiful food and cocktails, the ribs are amazing

Good selection of drinks Very busy later on in the evenings Nice and quite mid day to early evening I tried the chicken wing challenge but I thought the chicken was very very dry - sorry Rest of the meals were ok

What a lovely lunch. We ordered 6 of the small plates and every one was delicious. Very helpful and friendly manager. We had a wheelchair user with us and he did all he could to accomodate and help us. Will definitely be returning.

Awful food. Tasted like tinned dog food. No one ate anything. Wouldnt recommend at all

Nice beer with a solid platter, only issue that I could give was that the pork belly edges were a little tough.

Came here with my mother. Food was spot on and the beer was great. Was just a bit odd finding the way in from the car park. Make sure to enter from the roadside entrance.

Came for some lunch. Sound staff. Food to die for, good choice of drinks ect. Nice venue. Will 1000% be back

Food was good but the conservatory was freezing

Fagin is a good man to know and good at his job,see you all next week 🍺🍺

Very nice place. Would highly recommend

Nice clean pub, staff friendly was expecting a few vegetables with the meal but none available just fries

Absolutely not a smokehouse at all, we returned only to try something different and to come do the Spicey wing challenge again as it was fantastic brain ruining through numbness that I wanted again and even that was over cooked dry chicken platter ruined …. Won’t ever recommend this place atmosphere brilliant drink not too strong but great drinks, food …Worst I’ve ever tasted

We had some "food". The burgers were dry and had never seen beef , reheated chips tasted days old. If it was cheap i wouldnt have minded but it wasn't. The place was dead and we still waited 40 minutes for the "food" to arrive. As a drinking place ,spot on. But food wise i would avoid.

Brilliant place great member of staff (Georgia) made my night Thankyou.

The catering staff were really helpful, they catered to me and my daughter and we got exactly what we asked for

Had to book this place and leave a deposit for valentines night, expecting some effort to have been put into creating a romantic atmosphere, WOW was I amazed to see the place nearly empty and not a candle or rose in sight and all the main lights on . After waiting nearly 15 minutes to be asked if we would like a drink, we opted for a bottle of pino at £25 but the bottle they brought us tasted like a 2€ bottle from aldis And the food wow, someone really doesn't like their job. Well I could go on and on but my advice would be to give this place a wide berth

I've been a few times always happy staff who help n always check u are OK n no problems

Great meal and pleasant, friendly staff.

Great food and fantastic service. Definitely worth a visit.

Great place, great service by the staff. Went as a group for the bottomless brunch really good value for money

Friendly staff, who were very helpful. Lovely place, has outside seating (rained so unable to use). Food was gorgeous, definitely recommend.

Decent. Ribs and wings were good. Brisket in a chilli is a bit of a cop out. I can come and show you how to smoke brisket if you want

Great food & Cocktails. Service a little slow at the bar but overall a nice pub.

This place used to be good for food when it first opened. Tried here today for the first time in a while and do not understand what has happened. If you like fried food that tastes of oil and overcooked dried burgers that taste of nothing then go ahead and waste your money. No wonder the place was empty when we arrived.

The food was terrible, chips were over cooked scraps and my pulled pork was like mush. Will not be returning.

Nice bar with friendly and efficient staff. Good menu with a variety of bar snacks or proper meals. Offer Early Bird prices at certain times for prosecco. Plenty of seating and good atmosphere. I went early evening.

No time between starters and mains also my chicken kebab was raw twice

The food was good and tasty though a little bit expensive. Maybe we went too early and it was a Thursday, but there was no atmosphere, there were a few drinkers in the bar and just us sitting and eating.

Outstanding food friendly and clean spebt a real enjoyable night there

Delicious food, great service, friendly staff.

Food was excellent and very well priced. Service was brilliant

Sat outside in beer garden,very enjoyable afternoon

This place, is absolute joke. Took 15 mins to get served for a drink. This was after aski g in the first place. Secondly ordered the food waited fir 45 minutes again after asking to be told the order has not been processed. Not a good experience. Other reviews show good food. But its shame we didn't get the chance to try it

Fantastic food and cocktails are amazing. Highly recommend

There was only us and another table in there the food was lovely the service was shocking. Always got orders wrong or when asked for other drinks or dessert menus then you would have to ask multiple times. Staff to busy chatting to each other and on there phones... Customer service is everything for repeat business if they cant see to you when your the only table in there i doubt they could handle being busy. Also there Google says its closef when oys open this needs to be changed or will be closing down before it has even opened.

Lovely bar, friendly staff, good quality food variety of drinks reasonable price large outdoor area.

Lovely food and very helpful, friendly staff

Excellent food. Really enjoyable.

One star is too good for the experience.. my daughter booked us in for my birthday for food and drinks .. despite booking when we arrived someone was sat at our table and we were made to sit elsewhere until they had drunk up and hone . When we were seated we were told we had 90 minutes to eat and drink before we had to leave. We were handed paper menus and we were asked quickly what drinks we wanted .the group of people on the next table began to smoke which I thought was out of order they should have been asked to smoke in a designated area.. smoke drifted constantly over towards us .. after 50 minutes no-one had come to take our order but plenty of orders were being taken for drinks .. 10 minutes later a waitress came and asked yo take our paper menu to give to another diner ( not covid friendly ) . We told her no-one had vome gor our order to which she said oh ill come back in a bit... I you'd her not yo bother as I wasn't orepared to wait any longer ..

The food and service was really good but if the heating that was available was put on during the day instead of at 6pm then my girls and i would have stayed a lot longer and spent a lot more money than we did .overall we had a most enjoyable afternoon.

Staff really friendly, nice atmosphere. Table service good and timely (a missed drink once but was sorted quickly) all areas clean and tidy. Food looked and smelt amazing

Great food and good prices enjoyed our lunch out and felt safe in line with co vid guidance

Great food friendly staff. Coping very well with Covid restrictions

Lovely decor and good service Asked them to combine two dishes for me, to make something off the menu, and they did it no worries. The food was cracking, and they had Estrella on draft which is a nice lager so an added bonus Will certainly be back

Great food, staff very attentive but also covid aware,all meals and starters were excellent nothing left on any plate, s/f chicken, lamb and chorizo meatballs and chicken and prawn skewers starters, then full and half rack of ribs, pulled pork main and beef brisket chilli finished off with sticky toffee pudding x2 excellent

First time visitors to the smokehouse we all really enjoyed our food...

I visited here with my wife and son of 15 as the menu on Facebook sounded nice. We managed to get a booking for 8:40PM, which was the earliest booking available for that day when we booked 3 days in advance.When we arrived, the service was friendly and polite. The music was too loud (as in "party" loud) and the ambience was very shouty, as everyone had to shout to hear one-other over the music, and then you get those that are trying to shout over the ones that are shouting over the music.We were promptly seated and our order taken. However, the one thing I went for was not on the menu. Steak! Apparently they had run out. According to the menu, you can upgrade your steak for £1 per extra ounce, suggesting that it's freshly cut to order. Obviously, this would be very popular, so I would expect this to be the one thing that they NEVER run out of. We were given 3 copies of a printed A4 menu, which was very different to what was on the menus on Facebook and strangely had a lot of Indian food on it. Do people really go to a smokehouse and grill for a curry?? I was under the assumption that an Indian would be the best place to go for Indian food. Perhaps I've been doing it wrong all these years?We ordered some sides to start. Lamb and Chorizo Meatballs, Cheeky Tikka (chicken pieces) and pork belly bites. I have to say, we enjoyed every bit of these. It was really nice and raised our expectations somewhat.As for the meal that followed:My son ordered the 22 Big Burger. He wasn't keen on the burger itself, but I thought it was quite tasty. It comes with two patties, cheese, thinly sliced steak, yes, STEAK (grrr...) and it's skewered with a knife to hold it together. It looks impressive, but it's difficult to eat. Once you remove the knife, it doesn't want to stay together. The burger had to be deconstructed and eaten with a knife and fork.I had a platter. It had, among other things, 2 chicken wings, which were nice, pork belly bites, which this time were dry and overcooked, and half a rack of ribs. The ribs, sadly, had a rancid fat taste to them which, apparently, not everyone can taste, but I believe it is caused when a fatty meat has been frozen for a long time. It's unlike me to leave anything, especially meat, but I couldn't finish this. Even with the extremely sweet sauce smothering them, the rancid taste was too overpowering. It did come with some brisket, which was very tasty, but I can't help but wonder if it was bought in.My wife had a half rack of ribs and fries topped with brisket chilli. She wasn't too keen on the chilli, but the mouthful I had was nice. She could not taste the rancidness of her half rack of ribs, but I could.We also had a milkshake each, which had potential, but felt like it was made with really cheap ice cream. It tasted like sweetener, which made the milkshake taste strange.After we had finished, my son went to use the toilet. When he returned, I could actually smell urine. Apparently, the men's toilets stunk of urine and were not very clean. I can only assume that my son walked on a floor he though was wet from water, but it was not water he stood in! I asked if he thought the toilet had been cleaned recently, and he said that he doesn't think it had been done at all since the start of the day at the earliest. I suspect that there are no cleaners on site during business hours and everyone else is there to cook, or serve food and drink and therefore not prepared to clean. I find this bitterly disappointing. I wonder what would happen if someone threw up?I also noticed that there was a party of people in the booth by us and even though there were no children present, there was two greasy child hand prints on the mirror wall in the booth. Establishments that serve food are supposed to be taking extra measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, but apparently, this does not apply to 22 Bar & Smokehouse. There were also various items scattered around the central area of the floor, such as a small pencil, screwed up napkins and receipts, and not one member of staff bothered to pick them up yet they were walked over by numerous members of staff throughout the night. I just felt like no-one cared and only did what they had to do, and nothing more. Just as you would expect from kids.We each ended with a sundae. Even though we were the last of two tables in the building, it took about 20 minutes before our desserts were served. When they arrived, they were seemingly just thrown together. There was about an inch of sickly chocolate sauce at the bottom of the sundae glass. There was chocolate sauce running down the side of each of the glasses and the ice cream was almost totally melted. By the time we had finished, it looked like we were all messy eaters as there were puddles of chocolate sauce on the table. While we were finishing, the music changed mid-track to something more like what you might hear in a club. I can only assume the staff decided to put their own music on. I suppose they figured since it was the end of the night, why bother showing any kind of professionalism or consideration for the remaining customers? Three times we all jumped as a girl behind the bar threw a bottle into the empty-bottle bin so hard, I could swear she was trying to smash the bottles in the bin. The last time she did it, it was so loud it actually hurt my ear drum. If you've ever had someone clap right by your ear, that's pretty much what it felt like to me. I think it was lazy, rude and inconsiderate.After we'd got home and later went to bed, my son and I woke up at least 4 or 5 times to get some water. The food was evidently so laden with salt that it left us seriously dehydrated. It was a rough night and difficult to get comfortable. I only make a point of mentioning it as it's the first time it's ever happened to me. I actually thought I was ill as I felt a bit off, but fortunately, I was better by morning.Conclusion:I think this place is pretentious and failed to deliver on what I would expect for the prices. We paid £57 for the 3 of us, which would have been £87 without the Eat Out to Help Out discount. We do not feel that we had almost 90 pounds worth of food, or that this represented good value for money. I've eaten nicer food for half the price elsewhere. Would we return? Definitely not! Even for the starters, which we really enjoyed as it was far too loud to be enjoyable. With such wishy-washy standards and high prices, it's shocking that they seem so packed out all the time. People seem completely oblivious to the lack of quality and value for money and I can't understand why. I can only assume that perhaps people are using this place as a sign of status to show everyone they have money to burn, or that they don't really understand what quality is. I recently went to Heathfield Farm, and not only was the food quality much better, it was much cheaper! I think that 22 Bar & Grill are trying to be posh and sophisticated, but are failing dismally in pulling it off. We were extremely disappointed with how they seem to have earned such a good reputation and are coasting on that whilst bringing little to the table. My biggest regret was parting with another £15 for desserts and not just popping to McDonalds for a McFlurry.It says it's a bar and smokehouse. By bar, they actually means sports bar and I don't know what they mean by smokehouse. I don't believe they own their own smoker. I think that everything is bought in and some thing's possibly modified (such as the dips and glazes). But drenching everything in a sickly sweet BBQ sauce does not make a place a smokehouse. Also, they have a lot of Indian food on the menu, not even mentioned on their Facebook menu. If I wanted Indian food, I would have gone to an Indian restaurant and not a Smokehouse & Grill.This place is for you if:You like noisy, shouty environments.You don't mind waiting quite a long time for food.You like watching sports on 2 of 5 working TVs.You don't mind paying a premium for mediocre food, some of which was obviously frozen and likely bought in.You have low standards and like food that is laden with fat, salt and sugar.You don't mind paddling through urine when you use the men's toilet.You like places staffed by people in their late teens/early 20's.You don't plan on ordering anything more complex than a simple starter.You like fries in a bowl so they go soggy just like when you get them from a takeaway.You like not eating steak. Steak... Why hast thou forsaken me... :-(

Just had our second visit here, on our first visit the food was fantastic but being in the 'conservatory' (?) with bare brick walls resulted in a very loud and almost unbearable experience. As such we were a little hesitant to book again but quite some time had past and we decided to visit mid week and see what the difference was compared to the weekend. Quite a few changes to our last visit and a great improvement to the external seating area. Staff were fantastic and polite so cannot fault them at all, food was great. Menu has a great selection for all almost dietary requirements so we would recommend this for anyone. Parking is always difficult as they have limited spaces and the one thing I would say about both visits is the junk they have piled up at the back of the building. This is what customers are seeing first and in some cases this is impacting on parking, really needs some work here as it would make a great improvement.

Its good but don't just take my word for it..

Lovely attentive staff, humongous portions in the platters especially, enjoyable experience

Love this place, the place, food and service is excellent, will definitely be back!!!

Really tasty food and good value for money. We got 3 courses between us all was really nice. The only thing keeping it from 5 stars was the high chair for babies didn't have any straps so it wasn't really practical

First visit and I was very impressed. The food, service and ambience was first class. The eat out to help out scheme has won this classy restaurant a new regular customer.

Food great nice relaxed atmosphere service spot on will be returning soon

Great food, very tasty. Lots to choose from small plates, burgers, specials & some smoked foods too. Drinks are great here, great choice and open late!

Place was packed. No social distancing. No hand sanitizer in toilets. Staff had masks on their chins.

Its ok ... Got our order wrong (was only 6 people in the whole pub) Brisket was microwaved and very bland. We came here as they offer GF options but for the cost and effort put in by the 'chef' we will be giving it a miss for a while. Sorry guys 🤷‍♂️

Just popped in to meet family and decided to try the small plates. Excellent quality food we will be back

Step up from a lot of pubs serving food but locally lots to choose fro. With good menus, drinks can be higher that others in area with as good a menu and well presented. Food has always been good and haven't had anything to complain about. Worth a visit.

It has a great atmosphere and is always busy so it must be doing something right

Mixed feelings about the family meal on Monday night. The Mac n Cheese starter was very oily and had cajun spice that didn't go down well with my sister. The Lion's Kill, my choice was fantastic, steak, chicken, ribs, chips and coleslaw, I failed to eat the slaw. Homemade icecream was delicious but the coffee mediocre. 22% Monday discount, yipee and got mac cheese knocked of bill. Very little choice for veggie eaters, prawn or halloumi fajitas. Nice location and manager fair and friendly.

Me and five friends recently took a trip and wow the food was amazing personally went for the chicken blt and it’s outstanding. and the staff was a credit to the place. He was called Andrew and the service we received off him was exceptional.

This was my sons choice as it's very close to his home.Let me start with negative side.The place is cold inside and members of our party did feel this and commented.9 of is in the party and I believe maybe another 5 people eating and the food did take a long time to arrive well over an hour from ordering.On positive.The food when it arrived was very good and all enjoyed what they had.The staff were very good and at the end they brought out a cake desert with a sparkler firework which wasnt ordered but thought was a lovely gesture.Yes I would go again but feel the place is confused as to what it is.Lots of large screen tv showing sports so is it a sports bar or steak house ????

I have eaten now twice here.. The food is fabulous and the cost is very good too. The service was brilliant. I will be returning.

been avoiding going in here because it looked expensive but went in xmas eve and was pleasantly surprised -beer was reasonable pleasant staff and surroundings -will definately be back

Very nice with friendly staff and nice food

Brilliant food and fantastic service.

Fantastic food, great staff Lovely atmosphere. I will definitely return

Came here for NYE. couldn't fault the service. As it was NYE there was a DJ on so wasnt quiet but we didnt mind

Went here for my husbands 60th birthday meal with family. Had a very good night with good customer service great food and a great atmosphere.

Lovely staff, great atmosphere and amazing food! 5*

Just has a meal here for the first time , here’s my opinion ..The girl who served us ( Liv ) was nothing short of brilliant , she was polite , helpful if needed and most importantly for me didn’t hover around trying to do too much and left us to enjoy our food . The food was delicious and plentiful my wife had the half ribs and was stuffed , I had a burger and couldn’t finish it all which is a surprise for me !! My father in law had a 10oz rump steak now he is a very fussy eater and when he says something was nice it must be very good and he loved his steak !!! We had 3 main meals and 5 pints of lager and the bill came to just over £60 , which I think is very good for the quality and amount of food we had . We are definitely going to go back here and would recommend this place to anyone I’m sure they can cater for all needs and tastes .

Food was good . Company good . Waitress really excellent . Trudi who served our drinks and brought our food was very attentive . Will definatly go again

Top food nice layout lovely staff and they play sports. Can't ask for more.

We call regular for a meal and always get nice food and propt with a smile. The waiter is chatty and explained the type of food we were trying for the first time. Something deep fried that tasted delicious. Reasonable price for the drinks and meals. Calling with family soon for a birthday meal.

Excellent food and service, definately recommend this place.

Excellent food and service. Good menu choice. There were 4 people in our party, we all picked different meals and all thoroughly enjoyed each dish. We also had 3 tapas starters to share, again very tasty. Quite loud chatter and music but it was a special Halloween night, good atmosphere.