The Star Inn in Wakefield

Not enough staff on the bar the cope with demand.

Very good food and a really cosy pub, perfect for our walk. We will be back!

Delicious Sunday lunch and lovely friendly staff. A nice play area in the garden for the children to enjoy.

Outstanding food 👌🏻 Sunday dinner is amazing. Would highly recommend the star for food and drinks

We visited this week and the food was delicious and well presented. The staff were lovely too and couldn't have been more friendly. It was early doors and midweek, hence it was a bit quiet, but I would highly recommend it.

I can highly recommend Tuesday nights Thai menu.

Welcoming staff and pleasant surroundings

It was Ok. We ordered the steak however in one of the steaks we found the butchers string still around the steak when this was brought up to one of the waitresses she just laughed and took the string off the plate- one of the steaks was also supposed to be medium rare however was cooked more rare than medium rare which we were not bothered about. We also asked if we could get some bread and oils it was fine that we could not as it was not on the al a carte menu however a table near us looked to have got this. Overall would not visit again as did not feel it was worth the money spent.

Great beer Good atmosphere In Wakefield

Great local pub, now outdoors area, has football rugby matches on in one outdoor area but not a rowdy place. I didnt eat bit the food i saw looked amazing

Wow!! Absolutely amazing food! We had Sunday lunch the portion sizes are big! Quality of food is top notch! Staff and service cannot fault! At last a village pun serving the best food at good prices

We took our two kids here 30 years ago to play in the beer garden on the swings and slides…. Still a nice beer garden but nothing for the kids anymore, why? Surly it would bring in more family’s custom… Asked for a ‘Thatchers Cider’… oops, we don’t sell it, although the sign by the road advertises it 🤷‍♂️ Had a meal Saturday night at 6.00pm, limited a la carte menu to choose from after 5.00 and surprised as restaurant nearly empty for a Saturday… waited for our meal nearly an hour then had to send it back as mash was cold 🤷‍♂️ Meal was OK when we got it back but expensive with very little veg and mash… Sorry I wasn’t impressed but needs more attention to detail before I’ll return …

Had a first date in here tonight The company was fab! The food was deelish and very well presented. Everyone was smiling and really friendly. Tonight was a quiz night, we even won one of the quizzes! Food, service, atmosphere and entertainment were all superb. Will definitely be back. Paul and the team there 👏👏

This is a lovely and well presented establishment with friendly staff. A nice big beer garden to the rear of the pub on grassed area space for the kids to run around. The food is well presented and most importantly delicious there is a good selection of drinks to choose from at the bar

Since reopening this summer - Wow, what a transformation. Back to its best. Great beer garden for the kids. Food is lovely too.

The Star Inn is without a doubt the best pub in the area! 🍻 They have a wide selection of alcoholic beverages, the staff and owners are super friendly, and the food is top-notch. It's a great place for a family dinner or a quick beer with friends. #Cheers #GoodTimes #LocalLove

A great place for meetings with family or friends. The food was very good, the beer garden at the back was very well-kept

This is our local pub, where dining a place for their food and quality. Attentive service from their friendly staff which creates a great atmosphere. Best of all, they cater for our precious furry friends.

Very friendly staff helped out in a situation when they could have just said no food is excellent wouldn't hesitate in recommending

5 star service all round. Went for Sunday lunch and the food was delicious. Great atmosphere and the staff were all so friendly and polite. Highly recommend

Second time visiting in 2 days. After hearing it was under new management we thought we’d pay a visit. A great welcome on the first night and a bonus that it was a free Thai taster night. Booked to come again on Wednesday for steak night. Had one of the nicest fillet steaks I’ve had in a long time! We’re looking forward to coming back and trying the Sunday roast. Lovely outside area for the sunny days!

Lovely lunch on a Monday,friendly and welcoming service, tasty food and well maintained inside and out so you've a choice dependent on weather and how you feel. Great to have a quality local close to home. Thank you.

Thoroughly impressed. Great food. Random stop off and very glad we did. Food was superb! Good Sunday menu with options for 1,2 or 3 courses. X

Just been for lunch since it’s reopened and what a difference lovely clean place and great welcome , the food was really lovely too very excited to have a lovely friendly family pub on our door step . Thank you guys we will be back soon .

Food definitely gone up market and the pub has a very good beer garden

Open till to midnight they refuse to serve me at 22:34 never come back there

Tired surroundings, alway seems to be friends of the bar staff in the seating area which is very off putting, Indian food was good, shame its not there anymore as ot was the only reason we went. Needless to say I will not be going again. Check that the pub is still open as it won't be soon.

Been there twice and both times food was amazing. Highly recommended.

Hidden Gem, Star Balti, great service, happy attentive staff both in the bar and the restaurant. Food 1st class, booking recommend to avoid disappointment. £17.95 for 5 courses! Fbk page regularly updated with offers, Lamb biryani 👌🏽👌🏽melt in the mouth! Child friendly. Coffee with cream to finish,or ice cream 🍨. Will certainly return. Keep up the hard work guys 👏🏽👏🏽

Really poor, I’ve been twice but the food is bang average.

Excellent place, I find it best to visit myself, reasonably priced with excellent quality and service. Down side, if you go has a large party please book and the Bar receipt is separate from the food side. Easy to work out.please let this put you off...

First time visiting 23/3/24 had a fabulous curry highly recommend the keema India and family nan

Fantastic food good value for money but let down by poor bar variety snd expensive bottles otherwise 10 out of 10

1st of all onion bargis was cold over dond the prawn tandorri was like soup lamb spinich was burt an tasteless just horrid

This place is amazing and the food was lovely 👌

Great outdoor space for functions, I attended a baby shower there which was lovely.

Really sad this pub has been left to rot, it was such a beautiful local when the previous owners were there. Unprofessional and scruffy looking staff, no warm welcome, limited drinks, no atmosphere, dirty glasses and several core drinks not in stock. It’s shell of what it used to be. Shame on the new owners, you’ve managed to ruin what was once a busy and friendly local. We will not return until it has someone take over who cares.

Great food, great service, and reasonable prices. Royal kebab starter is a winner. Good chunks of chicken in the curry. Very good👍

Had an Indian meal 4 people really enjoyed it. Crippled with heartburn should have had gaviscon earlier. Can't blame the food just the 🤡 who ate it.

Probably chose the worst evening to visit when restaurant/kitchen was short staffed but instead of letting diners know what was going on (found out via their post the next day on facebook), they tried to cram everyone in and then had people waiting over 2 hours for food to arrive. A number of tables walked out. It's a shame because the food was nice (not up to Tingley balti usual standard), but still OK.

Good atmosphere friendly staff.

Brilliant before they sold/converted it to an Indian cuisine pub.

Some decent Bangladeshi food, great staff

Great food and service . I'll look forward to the next visit . The food listed below is wrong as it's now Indian cuisine

Lovely welcome and good food. Very reasonable prices. Busy, friendly atmosphere. Thank you for a great night.

Very disappointed. Party of ten of us & every dish was poor. Undercooked raw vegetables. The owner wasn’t interested when brought to his attention he walked away. Sadly won’t be going again.

Food lovely. Service was friendly

Well what can I say. First time in the Star since before lockdown. What a disappointment. Firstly a bar with no hand pulled beer on a Friday night. All hand pulled beers were off. Why does the landlord not order enough beer? Will it be off all weekend? So I’ll have a bottle of red wine. Oh no you won’t as the red wine is kept in a cold cellar. Finally settled on a lager and a pint of soda and lime which cost £2.20 for a glass of carbonated water and a splash of lime. Then into the restaurant. What a disappointment. No atmosphere, little ambience and so unlike an Indian restaurant as you can get. Open 2 months and it seems little effort or money has been expended in making the restaurant feel welcoming and atmospheric. There was no Christmas decorations apart from a few lengths of tinsel. Make the effort. There is expanding foam squirted in the door to stop a draught not even trimmed to tidy it up. So to the service and the food…..poppadoms n pickle tray good and that is where the praise ends. Not offered water nor wine and it is clear that the restaurant and the bar are independent enterprises and neither promoting the others goods. The main course arrived. Cold. Had to send both dishes back. We were told that the dishes we picked were mild. We asked for it to be made slightly hotter. The waiter said the chef could do it ‘Asian’ style. Wow the dishes were made so incredibly hot that they were inedible. I like hotter curries but these were cooked to another level! So having wasted the food we finally asked to settle bill. Needless to say that was wrong too. We had been overcharged. It was embarrassing to challenge the bill but I felt the need to do so, so they can be more careful with other customers. All in all a very disappointing experience and one that I won’t want to repeat. I hope the bar and restaurant take note of the issues raised and up their game.

The food is amazing I'm not a big curry person but I would recommend

As locals we booked a table to support a local business. But it was a waste of time. We booked a table and were seated on time. It was 20mins before our order was taken and we left 45 mins later with no further interaction with the staff. We explained we were unhappy and were leaving. It was disappointing that restaurant staff offered no apology. It should be noted that bar staff, under different management, were very good throughout. We won't be going back.

A lovely little pub. They’ve just opened an Indian restaurant called Star Balti and the food was fantastic. The owner came out to chat with us to make sure we were happy and the staff were all lovely. Would highly recommend.

Would not recommend. Poor food and customer service. Most of the outdoor toys are broken.

We went to the Star Inn for lunch on Sunday afternoon and sat outside. Our order was brought out incorrectly, and one of the dishes was pulled pork on nachos, however was not pulled and instead was cubes of meat on the nachos. The toys in the beer garden look like they need replacing as they are all very dirty and most of them are broken. When I told a member of staff that the dishes were incorrect, she just shrugged her shoulders.

Went for a meal and ordered two beef and onion sandwiches. The beef tasted and smelt off. The meat looked a grey colour. Informed the waitress and was offered another meal, which we declined. Both meals were left fully. We left and was still charged full price. Personally think the customer service when it comes to poor meals which weren’t eaten and being charged full price is pretty ridiculous. Had one bite and the taste still hasn’t left my mouth. Would never go back.

Outstanding food would definitely recommend, will be coming back 👍🏽

What a disappointment compared to our last visit in 2021. We asked if the chips were home made told yes they were not they were frozen as was everything else on my plate other than the bit of salad. If you like fresh good food this is not the place for you.

Great atmosphere and service, lovely food, and a really good play area. We have eaten here quite a few times now, and the food is always really good and big portions. You get loads for what you pay. Everyone who works there is very friendly and welcoming. The play area and outdoor seating are also really good. This particular time, they had a bouncy castle, which was free, so that was a great extra. The rest of the time they have a big climbing frame, swings, slides, 2 sit on tractors, lots of ride on toys and plenty of seating.

Was at a wedding reception. Nice venue with a nice outdoor area.

Had planned to eat here mid journey to the dales, when we arrived it was shut.

I am not a icence of a public house myself and if a pub was run like this I would be annoyed. I know by 9.30 children have to be out of a pub.. We have been recommended this pub as staying up the road and it's a shame as because they would get lots of trade from this. Kids running a pub and their friends running a mock Music been played way too loud. Never again. It's a shame as its a lovley pub we would have spent more but just very loud people. Sort this out or will become another static Plus the menu way too expensive 2 pounds for a bread cake and 3 pounds for gravy??

Extremely over priced for what it is.. charging Michelin prices for Aldi food

Visited for Sunday lunch, haven’t been to this pub for a few years, was excellent but things have changed! The staff are pleasant but the service and food was poor. We sent 3 meals back and received refunds.

Very good food for a reasonable price.

Lovely pub, great food, but perhaps lacked choice of deserts

Lovely location food fab and staff friendly

Great home cooked food partnered with the warm welcoming friendly atmosphere. Lovely spot to enjoy a drink with a bite to eat inside & the garden outside

Did not enjoy food long wait and half cold

Nice food and pleasant service. We look forward to coming back to try more of the menu 😋

Decor a bit drab but the food more than makes up for it. Nice staff serving who were really helpful too. Will definitely be back.

Best pub in the area. Staff super friendly and the food is fantastic

We booked a family meal at the Star Inn to celebrate our parents 50th wedding anniversary. 14 of us thoroughly enjoyed our meals and the slow cooked beef dinner was delicious. My Father-in-law quoted the steak and ale pie was the “best pie he‘s ever had”. We would highly recommend the Star Inn for anyone wanting lovely home made food.

This used to be such a good pub, always busy with really good food. Sadly since COVID it appears to have lost its way. There are few people in now, even for a Sunday lunch. There was no draft ale at all on Sunday, which for a pub is pretty poor. The food is ok, but a massive dollop of lumpy mash was off putting and the veg is over cooked. The slow cooked beef was lovely, as was the lamb but the place could be so much better. It lacks an atmosphere and some music would have been nice to drown out the tik tok videos that the people on the next table were playing very loudly. It’s a pub in a great location with good potential, but needs some TLC…

Absolutely appalling meal tonight, would not recommend at all. The pub was empty !!!!! I think that says it all.

Went to a wake , on Friday I'm from Leicestershire, and thought the pub was very nice,

Just out for a walk with dog,popped in for food and a beer great place for kids to play and burger and beer great and service was good will come again

Went there for a birthday party. Only 2 bar staff on all the time we were there. Ordered Moretti but was told i could only have it in a Coors glass, i could have a Moretti glass but it would be warm. Paying top prices for drinks & they can’t even put them in the right glasses & to be honest it wasn’t the best Moretti i’ve had either. Hand dryers in toilets didnt work, no paper towels either. No sign of anyone in charge ie landlord. Behaviour of some of the people not attending the party was shocking & no one was there to sort it out. Very poorly run pub based on this visit. If you are the owner/landlord go & visit a couple of pubs in the next village to see how its done.

Took my mom out for Sunday lunch today and feel bad for saying this but it was pretty average. Firstly, only 1 draught later left as they had run out.. not the end of the world. Then for the mains, no lamb, no chicken nuggets, no peas and the veg choice was broccoli and cauliflower cheese only. Lots of mash and my belly pork was huge but a bit boring.. kids burger was good and the sausages for the mains were fine. Just a bit boring as it was 3 sausages and a dollop of mash. My mom had steak and ale pie which was full of onions which overpowered the rest of the meat (who put onions in a steak and ale pie). Oh and we waited ages for the meals even though there were about half a dozen in the place. Don't like bagging independent eateries but won't be rushing back, have been here several times over the years and this was by far the worst so 3 stars.

Came here for a family get together and the food was amazing! Had the homemade steak n ale pie with chips n mushy peas. Others had lasagna which was also homemade and chicken curry. Was definitely homemade and cooked to absolute perfection. Thanks to all the staff who were lovely and attentive at all times.

Absolutely disgusted - booked a table for our anniversary dinner, we had our first date here years ago, contacted after booking to say they had a party would we be alright in the snug to which we accepted - turned up for the meal and no room in restaurant or snug but you can sit in the bar!!!!!! Thanks Starr In for ruining our anniversary, shame I can’t give you zero stars

Good food friendly staff been a few times always been happy 😊

Lovely pub great staff n very friendly.great bike night for the Crusaders mc charity for veterans. Brilliant night great band.

We had Mum's celebration of life there yesterday, a very good buffet, very pleasant staff. Very helpful. Lovely and clean. Nice ambience and lots of compliments from Mums friends.

Staff fantastic very friendly pie and mash nite is a must best I ever tasted

Nice place......seem friendly staff

Enjoyable meal.service good and the food was hot

Called in for a drink after walking over from ossett. Nice place but couldn't order a snack, because we hadn't booked a table? We were happy to eat it stood up or sat in the garden. But not to be.

We went here for an early evening meal, we were made to feel very welcome. The food was very nice but perhaps a bit more expensive than usual pub prices, especially the drinks. The outdoor play area was nice for the children and plenty of parking.

Looked after us very well.Will go back.

We have recently been to The Star and had a couple of meals. I really enjoyed the pie's They are really tasty and filling with a great portion. The staff are friendly and helpful Great atmosphere in the Inn Also I've taken my staff for a drink and it's nice to find somewhere you can just relax. Plenty of seating inside and out with a play area for the little ones. Easily located just out of Wakefield on the Batley rd Good sized car park Definitely worth a try It is a good place to walk to as there are plenty of countryside walks locally

Massive portions and amazing food. Brilliant value for money

First time we have been here, certainly won't be the last. We came especially for the pies and we weren't disappointed. Three steak and Ales , Cottage Pie and Corned Beef , three choices of pie topping makes it even more special. Every one was delicious and all the vegetables to accompany our meal were perfect. The young lady who served us was so pleasant ,only her second shift but you wouldn't have known. The beer garden looked great too . We will definitely be back.

Had lovely Mother's day lunch. Excellent food & service. Would definitely recommend.

June pub. But only us 3 in the place

Went for the Harry Potter quiz. Good atmosphere and good food

Amazing pies and quality food. Service was excellent. Will definitely go again

We went for lunch with friends there was no heating on so very cold. The gammon was undercooked accompanied by a slice of tinned pineapple that was very unappetising. The salmon was also only just cooked pale and watery. Not much choice of dessert sold...

Friendly staff - excellent food. Well worth a visit. Visited for lunch today with family and could not fault it.

Prior to lockdown we had decided to give the Star a miss, we heard it had changed hands about a year ago so we had lunch. What a difference no pretentious over priced and over seasoned food. We were welcomes with a friendly smile, lunch...

Unfortunately not the place it used to be :(

love Beverly Market a good verity of stalls from gifts food and something different