Kirkstall Bridge Inn in Leeds

Stunning traditional pub in a great location. Overlooking the river it has possibly the best beer garden in Leeds but be warned can be very busy at the slightest glympse of sun. Great selection of traditional ales, craft beers, wines, spirits and soft drinks. If you can't find something you like for the casual or hardened drinker or the driver of the group there's something wrong with you! Staff are friendly, eager to please and always willing to go the extra mile. Great Pub, Great Brewery, I can't recommend it enough. Beware of flood season though.. 🌊 😬

Great place to stop off for a well earned drink after walking along the canal . Huge beer garden to sit in & enjoy the sun 🌞

Good vegan food, excellent Kirkstall Brewery beers, lovely location.

Pub muerto sin ambiente. No recomendaría en absoluto. Becketts Bank en la ciudad tiene un mejor ambiente e instalaciones y eso es solo un wetherspoons

Great pub and an excellent choice of real ales. Will definitely be going back

I visited the bridge inn yesterday and what an absolute joke and shambles.I tired to order the steak pie only to be told it couldn't be served outside in the beer garden. Only reasons know to the 2 people serving behind the bar.I then was told I could order anything thing else off the menu.Tried to order a sandwich but had no sandwiches. At this point I lost the will to live so decided to have a drink and some bacon fries. Only to be informed there had no bacon fries.Who runs this joke of a place.Go to Dave's Ale & Pie shop for better service and something that resembles a business in the 21st century

Cómo alguien puede calificar esto por debajo de 5 estrellas está más allá de mí. El mejor pub de Leeds. Gran ambiente, personal amable, la comida es siempre de primera categoría, especialmente su pizza y el almuerzo del domingo, y la cervecería es uno de los mejores de alrededor. ¡Las cervezas locales tampoco pueden superarlo!

Went for Mother's day,food and service was fantastic, just like always.

He estado aquí para la comida un montón de tiempo, normalmente muy agradable, pero esta vez, no estaba nada contento, pedí las papas fritas cargadas de tocino, cuando llegaron estaban frías, el tamaño de la porción era terrible para el precio y la cebada no hay tocino en ellos, realmente decepcionado

Ok, así que primero los precios de las bebidas son muy caros. He comido aquí varias veces y siempre disfruté de la comida, pero hoy fue impactante por lo que pagamos. En primer lugar no hay hamburguesas, luego no hay pizzas, así que se conformaron con lo que llamaron papas fritas cargadas que he tenido en el pasado y sabía delicioso estos, por otro lado, donde una pequeña porción de papas fritas con cebollas de primavera y unos cuantos pimientos y luego y salsa no cargada en absoluto, mi amigo consiguió las papas fritas cargadas de tocino y debe de haber 5 pequeños trozos de tocino y un poco de salsa. Quedó absolutamente decepcionado y pensando que el chef definitivamente ha sido cambiado para peor. Qué decepción para un hermoso día soleado

Great food, well kept ales, good people

Wonderful place. Made me very excited and emotional and shed a tear when I left

Service was excellent, Charlie looked after us the whole night and made our staff do special!

Fabulous dog friendly pub, excellent fish and chips

Service was great by bar man. Food, however, took over 25 minutes to get to us when quiet and simple dishes. Lovely place, but I wouldn't come to eat at peak time when busy. I would hate to think how long to wait after ordering.

One of the best pubs in leeds. Comfortable inside and beautiful outside overlooking the canal. Great beers and tasty food

Nice pub, plenty of different sorts of beers , food good too. Plus side too is big outside sitting area by the river. Staff were friendly and helpful too.

Nice dog friendly pub. Local ales. Nice friendly chatty staff, would recommend

Absolutely fantastic. Staff excellent, it is rare that I've been somewhere, where all the staff are brilliant. We arrived early, so they found us a table to park ourselves. The food - wow! I had Porchetta. The greens were glorious, the spuds splendid, the carrot and parsnip exquisite. Dunno about red cabbage, I only like that raw and it looked cooked. The Yorkshire Pudding and pigs in blankets were amazing. The stuffing ball was, an afterthought, tasted lovely, but not enough. The meat was exceptional, I tasted the beef, both were brilliant. Had cheesecake for dessert, Hmmm, it was like the stuffing ball chef did desserts. Not a great base, top like cold treacle. The ice cream however was ******* gorgeous! Will book again (assuming the stuffing ball chef doesn't see this).

Traditional pub, cosy with decent drinks selection 💪

The Bridge is a reliable bet for decent beer, good music and tasty food. Relaxed atmosphere without loud sports etc. Beers from Kirkstall Brewery (it's effectively the brewery tap), and other imports and collaborations, in tap and casked. Good vegan options on the food too, and vegan GF beer available too!

Regrettably I cannot give my long standing old favourite a good review on this occasion, which would usually be a 5* all the way. Too long now have they been without a decent standard cider on tap and not a sour in sight. I love visiting the bridge but lately they have failed to produce the goods. Sorry the bridge inn, maybe next time

Empezaré con lo positivo, este es un pub encantador y local, un ambiente agradable, un entorno encantador, un edificio peculiar y una decoración muy bonita. Desafortunadamente tuvimos una experiencia de basura esta noche. Vinimos como una fiesta de 9 para el cumpleaños de mi hija, estábamos sentados en un rincón encantador, iluminado por las hadas abajo y estábamos deseando una buena comida en un entorno encantador. El menú es pequeño y limitado, especialmente para 3 de nosotros que somos vegetarianos. La mayoría de nosotros queríamos pizza solo para ser informados de que no había pizzas esta noche, opté por la hamburguesa vegetariana con papas fritas, las papas fritas estaban frías y la hamburguesa era prácticamente no comestible que estaba tan seca, ninguna cantidad de mayo podría ayudar! El bollo estaba rancio y el sabor de la hamburguesa era vil. Con una excepción todos tuvimos una hamburguesa de alguna descripción y todos nos decepcionamos, eran tan secos y poco apetitosos. Los chips estaban fríos. El servicio fue atroz, esperamos siglos para nuestra comida y nos atendieron por personal muy antipático, francamente miserable. La comida es muy cara para lo que obtienes, tienen una mejilla cobrando por lo que hacen por comida tan mediocre. Todos estábamos muy decepcionados y esto arruinó el cumpleaños de mi hija. No recomendaría comer aquí en absoluto, tan decepcionado.

The place is pretty good but I missed darts or table football

This is a lovely pub and on a fine day, the beer garden is one of the best in the area. Being a Kirkstall Brewery owned pub the beers are good and constantly rotating. The food however is awful. Forget the long wait (> 1 hour) its tasteless and not value for money.

Un pequeño pub con encanto con un bonito jardín de cerveza. Buena cerveza, buena comida (aunque esta última era un poco más - precio) . Personal amable y eficiente. Recibimos nuestra comida bastante rápido.

Fantástica cena de Navidad. El menú y los platos cuando llegaron eran absolutamente deliciosos y las porciones eran enormes, tanto que el personal se ofreció a encajonar nuestros pasteles picados y queso y galletas. De principio a fin no tuvimos prisa, de hecho, por elección estuvimos allí durante más de 3 horas. La comida como he mencionado era excelente y mi salmón para la alimentación principal se derritió en la boca, pero las verdaderas estrellas eran el personal. Todos y cada uno realmente fue una y otra vez para garantizar que nuestro día y comida era especial. No dudaría en reservar de nuevo. Gracias a todo el personal que fueron un crédito a la cervecería. Y tan buena relación calidad-precio.

Jane in the Christmas beer hall was absolutely fantastic at serving us - thank you so much!!

Great pub, great atmosphere, great for food,

Called in for a Pint of Kirkstall Real Ale, tried a couple, excellent. Food Menu looked good too....

Great food, drinks, staff and atmosphere. Visited for first time this evening

Great pub for a drink and chill! However, after having been plenty of times I can say the food is very average for a high price. Last visit I spent £18 on a burger and loaded fries. The burger was just meaty with no flavour or seasoning and came with weird tasting buns. Having to pay an extra£1 to get cheese on it only for them to forget it anyway is just cheek. The £4 upgrade to loaded fries was just a normal portion but with a few onions on top!? (Like really?!) You have to order at the bar like a spoons and it's always a long wait for food even when the place is really quiet(45-1.30hr). Which i wouldnt mind, considering the food is top notch. Shame really as it's my local and I like the place. Overall, i think its too hipster and trying hard to be something its not. For a drink and chill you can't go wrong! Food however you can find better elsewhere.

This has been my local for years. It was superb before Covid and I was a regular. After Covid, it's dropped in quality a bit. The beer is still good (Kirkstall Brewery), but some (not all!) staff are very rude -- something that never happened pre-Covid. Once a person carded me very rudely -- even others at the bar noticed. Just a few weeks ago, a very nasty staff member chastised my exhausted husband for sleeping. I understand that pubs have a no-sleep rule -- for good reason -- and we are fine with being told that. But this staff member did it very rudely "we don't have benches in here" and threatened to ban us for life. When we asked if the ban applied to only my husband or the whole friend group, the staff member replied with something like, "I'm not the police". My husband wrote to the pub with details of the incident and they replied asking for more info, which he gave. I don't know what has happened next, but we have decided not to go back there -- facing the unpleasantness from some staff members is not for us. It's very sad as we used to be regulars and have memories there, and post-Covid still looked on it as a place to relax, but that staff member was so extraordinarily unpleasant that we cannot return.

I didn't eat on this occasion, thou menu looked superb. Great choice if Real Ales. Kirkstall Three Swords wonderful...

Fantastic pub, attended for a quiz

Very disappointing trip to Kirkstall Bridge Inn on Sunday about 3:30pm, decided to pop in for food after doing some shopping around the corner. There was plenty of empty tables, so me and my partner took a seat and looked at the Sunday lunch menu to decide what we would have. I got up to go to the bar and order, only to be abruptly informed that if we hadn't booked we couldn't order food. I find it absolutely ridiculous that a pub offering Sunday lunch can't accept any walk in customers, especially when the place is literally half empty. If this sort of thing is common practice nowadays, then no wonder so many pubs and restaurants are complaining about the potential of going out of business in the current financial climate, when the are literally turning away custom!

Nice pub will definitely be going again good food 👍

As far as drinks go no complaints but the bar had a very odd smell and I feel ripped off after ordering halloumi fries and only getting three (mostly bread crumbs).

Sunday - 4 people - 12.10 mid day - can't take a walk in for full lunch - really?!

Great selection of beers but the Sunday roast service was chaotic!

Un pub encantador, gran ambiente, bebidas y personal. Tristemente abrumado por la comida esta noche, el hongo Kiev una pequeña porción por las £ 17 cobradas, 3 hongos sentados en un pedazo de lechuga cada uno. No se mencionan verduras en el menú y aunque el buen servidor se disculpó y dijo que le preguntarían al chef, nadie volvió a mí con las verduras o una oferta de reembolso. Qué pena. Se fue hambriento.

El pub es un edificio muy antiguo, que se ha mantenido muy bien y se mantiene impecable. La cerveza se mantiene a un nivel muy alto, y la selección de vinos, licores y aperitivos es excepcional. El menú de comida está enfocado, y cada vez que hemos comido allí ha sido fantástico. No es Wetherspoons con 300 opciones de microondas, es comida real cocinada fresca. El personal siempre ha sido amable y profesional. Se nota que hay un buen ambiente detrás de la barra. Puede ser una cualidad incuantificable, pero disfruto beber en un lugar donde el personal parece feliz.

Lovely pub with good food and a big beer garden.

¡Demasiado tiempo para esperar comida! Casi ningún cliente y tomó más de 45 minutos para la comida del pub - hamburguesa, patatas fritas, sándwiches, etc. Muy triste, ya que el sol estaba fuera y el jardín del pub era precioso.

Just stopped for a few drinks so no input on food. Staff were very friendly and quick to serve. Beers were all well kept and properly poured for type. Reasonable prices. Nice beer garden by the river.

Good for a pint but the food is dead

Wonderful pub, really top notch. Nachos need much improvement. Worst of my life. Pub is great though- just bad nachos

Really fun pub quiz! Chicken burger cost just under £20 and was a 4/10 - rather stick to beer or eat before you come.

Nice pub, I'm thinking of making it my local even though I live at the other side of town, it's THAT good! 🤣

Looked absolutely amazing however, everything tasted microwaved/re heated. Especially the potatoes and Yorkshire pudding. The stuffing was the worst I’ve ever tasted. We didn’t really enjoy our dessert either, tbh. We’ve been to some great places for Sunday lunch at the same price or more - and this definitely wasn’t worth it. Staff were friendly, and the atmosphere was good so I’m a bit sad to say we left really disappointed. I’d come back but just for a drink, not food.

Amazing food and service! Came for a Sunday dinner and was brilliant, great customer service too. The coffee is lovely too.

Great place with a great location, especially on a lovely sunny day by the river. Only con is it is quite expensive but you are paying for what you get.

Nice place only had a drink but it was cosy

Good range of beers and pretty decent food. Nice balance between pizza and snacks to eat outside and more substantial dishes for indoors. Great outdoor space for the rare occasions when it's a sunny wind free evening in Leeds!

Quick bite to eat midweek, pizzas are delicious.

Woman on the bar down stairs with brown hair was rude, dirty looks, bad attitude and not very welcoming. Went upstairs and staff were much nicer, food is expensive which is fine but chips were cold, which is not what you would expect.

We love it here. Great beer garden and they even have games inside if that's your thing!

18 quid for 3 pints and the kitchen closed 45 minutes early because 'they're busy'. A hipster pub with no idea. This was a Friday night, they know how many tables there are, it's Friday, it's a warm evening, they've known all week it'll be busy...but the kitchen can't handle it. Poor staffing. In the words of the barman, 'the kitchen's closed, we've been slammed mate...'. very helpful. 👏 Oh, and when i asked if there is a menu at the bar, the barman, stuffing his face with a box of food at the bar replies 'the kitchen is closed as they've run out of food'. I mean, clearly.

Good range of beers, nice view of the river in the beer garden. Had good experiences with food in the past (really liked the pizza). Had pies and burgers on most recent visit, and was a little disappointed, as the food took ages to arrive, and was a bit tepid when it got to us. Would go back for pizza, but unfortunately wasn't impressed by the food on this most recent visit.

Enjoyed a drink, sat outside. Plenty of tables. Steps involved. Great service. People seemed to be enjoying their food.

I went to the Bridge at the weekend and it was great to sit in the beer garden before seeing the group Madness. The service at the bar, even though quite busy was really good. The staff are really friendly and were able to advise me on the range of beers they have and let me sample some. A tall chap with dark brown hair was really cheery and friendly. I would definitely recommend a visit.

We ordered a plate of chips. Still waiting half an our later. Don't be in a rush for food. Awful serviice

Lovely, friendly and caring girls working at the bottom bar (didn’t try the other but imagine they’re just as nice!) incredibly efficient food service for outside seats despite the garden being almost full and the food being great quality with fab presentation . A little overpriced for the food options and the marmite wasn’t strong enough on the marmite pizza for my personal taste but for the excellent quick service and other good food options I can’t complain! Would highly recommend, especially on a week day evening

Really good food, nice beers, lovely music!

Solid pub and always worth a visit

Great pub. Friendly staff. Lovely food. Brilliant beer garden and good offers. The atmosphere for the Euros was unmatched!

Not had food yet .but good chance next time me & boss lady pop in .we'll just be back to pub &this time had some very good pizza. We'll worth money

We are five retired public sec tor workers who meet occasionally for lunch and catch up. Friends had recommended the Kirkstall Bridge Inn, so working on their say we went - much to our regret!! Arriving early for our booked 1pm slot we found that the bar at the car park level wasn't staffed and one of our party went up the steep stairs to order at the main bar. She had to carry the drinks to the lower level.... Looks like you hadn't done a risk assessment team Kirkstall. I say 'team' with some reluctance as there was little by way of being pleasant or helpful from the two staff we first met. Again we had to the upper lounge to place out food order. 2 x starters and 5 by mains Time line 13.05 Around 13.15 we were told that there wasn't sufficient pie to fill that part of the order and two of us asked for alternatives. A second round of drinks were ordered and as time was drifting along one of our party went to ask about the food We were told that they would check At about 13.45 the food arrived... yes, all of it together!!... there then ensued a discussion on how the 'team' saw timing... and that it was OK to bring everything at once. I found the two members of staff unhelpful and it was only when I told them we would eat the starters and could they please take the mains away until we were ready for the... It is never helpful when staff use the expression 'Je*** Ch****' as they walk away. When the mains did arrive it was a new member of 'team Kirkstall'... All three of the pie participants immediately said they couldn't eat the food because of the level of salt! Staff member 3 tasted the gravy and immediately acknowledged our complaint. To his credit he offered to get fresh food, but in all fairness having been there for almost an hour and a half. That member of staff treated us in a professional and courteous manner on a background note I feel it is reasonable to say the The K B I was not busy, maybe we should go back on a day when they are.

New to the area and had gone by on the bus a couple times, the beer garden always looked so inviting. So we booked in a Sunday roast - can do online or over the phone. Were originally booked in around 4, but were in the area earlier and decided to pop in and see if we could eat 2 hours earlier (annoying I know but we just wanted to see if there was space on the off chance). They were super understanding and accommodating. The food was amazing, came quickly and tasted amazing! The portions were huge!!! The staff were so lovely and attentive. Honestly couldn’t ask for more. After an amazing roast we had one more drink outside in the beer garden which was clean, beautifully put together and there were quite a few friendly dogs out there too, which is always lovely. Will be back!

Arrived with my 9 month pregnant wife and was met with a log jam of traffic in the car park. All the benches from the football the night before were left out and there wasn’t enough room to reverse and park in the spaces that were available. Fellow customers helped out trying to move benches so that cars could manoeuvre (all whilst being drenched by the torrential rain) I went inside to complain to the staff who were blissfully unaware that there was chaos in the car park and customers getting soaked. The response by staff was “are you sure there was no parking….?” This was followed by another similar reply before I walked out. The pub was clearly full with bookings so makes no sense why a dozen or so benches couldn’t have been stacked to accommodate loyal customers. Will not be returning again.

Great little pub. Wonderful selection of beers. 'Old Pub' but welcoming atmosphere inside and great outdoor space

Good lesson - if it’s not right, don’t just eat it and say nothing!! We ordered food around 3pm - and even though no one else was eating it took about 45 mins to arrive, and when it did it was cold. I had to raise this with the staff as I was not going to pay ~£18 for a cold burger. The Chef was amazing as were the front of house team. He came down to personally advise he was replacing the whole meal as the dumb waiter apparently gets stuck! So the message here is- if it’s taking longer than you think it should- ask as may be stuck between floors!!

Bar staff were really friendly. Nice and busy but didn't affect waiting times.

We ordered from the garden menu - the food that came out was well below par. The boys couldn’t eat their pizza. The humus was horrendous and the chips didn’t come, we had to chase the waiter for them All in all, a very disappointing meal and service. We used to come here for roast dinners but we won’t be coming back

Nice location but food lacking, ordered the sea salt and rosemary fries and they was just basic takeaway style chips costing £4:50, also pizza costing £12 was disappointing and came with chillies of which was not on the item description. Would not eat here again. Also the travel to garden area to condiments was a trek.

One of the best Kirkstall pubs there is - great beer selection and some of the prettiest beer garden seating in the whole of Leeds, both in winter and summers sun.

Portions were big but the food was just ok. Bit pricy.

Nice area, only when sun is not high there canbe windy and cold outdoor

Highly recommended. Has a local pub feel with great food and a good selection of beers. I had the fish and chips, very tasty. 😋 Pub was very busy on a Wednesday night but service was first class. 👏🏼

Great for Sunday dinner, great sized portions too!

What an absolutely amazing pub!! The staff were so friendly and the atmosphere was so laid back and relaxing. We had the pizza and a pint for £13.50 and it was out of this world. Honestly I can't recommend this pub enough enough.

Great real ale pub that has the best beer garden in Leeds.

Knowledgeable staff serve the local brewery's finest selection of beers alongside a range of both hearty pub grub and some more innovative/contemporary options. When hosted in a solid old stone building flanked by a beer garden that raises the exciting possibility of drinking underwater should it flood, there's a lot to like. Plus, they're dog-friendly with the exception of Sundays in the upstairs bar

Love this pub. Always great beer, food and friendly staff.

Great dinner excellent staff and service I felt very welcomed ...My 3rd visit, indoor and outdoor seating great menu delicious food

Properly old fashioned indoors, massive beer garden outdoors, good drinks selection and friendly staff.

Great atmosphere with some nice locally brewed drinks, well priced and a lovely garden

Great pub with a fantastic selection of drinks and food. It has a very large outdoor seating area and parking at the back.

Well worth a visit. Good food and great service.Pub interior interesting and well furnished to a high standard.

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Lovely beer garden over looking the river but a bit pricey

Good night out. Definitely recommend the place.

I must admit I was really looking forward to dining at the Kirkstall Bridge Inn as we don't dine out very often, when we arrived my first impressions were great music (70s) at the time we arrived. In my youth I frequented may boozers and I would class the Kirkstall Bridge in that category. Most of the clients were drinking and enjoying it as it was a great atmosphere. We opted for the Sunday roast and a starter. I was delighted when I saw chicken wings on the menue, sadly there were too few for the price paid and the BBQ sauce was very vinegary and cheap tasting. The main course the roast brisket was not so disappointing but I have had much better at a Toby Carvery. All in our four diners each with starters and mains came to just over £110 excluding drinks £143 including drinks . I would definitely return for a few drinks but as far as dining goes there's much better value out there.

Some of the best chips out there in pub land

Terrible service, overpriced drinks and food. Rude staff. I will never return

Only living round the corner from this pub is a god send. We usually walk our puppy down the canal and then nip in for a pint/ bite to eat which is very convenient for dog lovers. Always has a great, friendly atmosphere. Pizzas and fries are lovely but the loaded fries are just not for me. Bit on the steep side but you pay for what you get. If your ordering food I would suggest to sit inside otherwise it comes in take away tubs. But overall definitely our favourite local pub 🤩

Excellent food and great atmosphere

Great pub in Kirkstall near the river. Nice food, but we found it a little over priced for what you got. Also, we weren't impressed with the 55 minute wait for it. Very nice when it did arrive though. Nice outdoor seating area. Eclectic clientele. Young, old, families.

This is an excellent pub, with one of the best beer gardens in Leeds - it's interior is lovely too. You know you'll get a well kept, well poured pint of cask. The food is difficult to comment on as the style of food (other than Sunday) does seem to change a fair bit. I don't know whether this is chef turnover etc but does seem to vary and can't really comment on a consistent quality I do think it was a bad move to allow dogs upstairs though. It has always been a dog friendly pub, with dogs outside and in the large downstairs area. But not everyone is a dog person, and having upstairs as a separate space was a good shout.

We visited the Kirkstall Bridge Inn last Sunday whilst visiting our daughter and booked a table for the Sunday roast. The Inn has a really friendly atmosphere . There is a great choice of beers to chose from behind the bar. The Sunday roast was delicious and we all had clean plates which is always a good sign. It does get busy so definitely book. The staff were all friendly and we will definitely return next time we visit.