Zapato Brewing in Kirklees

Good ales, two of which are on cask, guest beers, plenty of entertainment and events on a weekend. We attended their Christmas markets which are very popular.

Highly recommend Zapato - beautiful location with such a lovely beer garden, great variety (especially the beer flights), friendly customer service and good street food too. Great spot for a fun night!

Love a chilled end to a Monday dog walk 🫶🏼

Lovely place, friendly staff, good beer.

Cat lovers unite! Try the Bad Kitty Vanilla Porter. Excellent stuff (Not a local guide.)

I like it, it's conveniently placed to go on a nice dog walk and have a drink, maybe some food. However, the lack of facilities to dispose of dog waste is bizarre. A lot of people take their dogs there, it must be a huge source of their revenue, so why not allow people to dispose of dog waste? Plenty of places to put a bin and it's massively inconvenient to not be able to. Nobody likes the smell of it! There are lots of places to put a bin well away from the seating. What a silly response.

Just visited Zapato great food, great beer nice surroundings but driving so could only have 1 pint but I would have bought a 2 pint carton of beer to take home but they don't do one pity please like if you agree.

Came across this place randomly on social media and decided to pay a visit as was in the area. Lovely little tap room, friendly knowledgeable staff, and a nice range of beers on tap. More interesting beers than the now commercial Magic Rock so we'll be back when next in the area for sure. They also have various food pop ups and open deck nights, nice to see some variation. YoYo the beer monkey also enjoyed it so it's five stars from us!

Wonderful. Lovely family walk along the canal. A gem of a watering hole. Great beers on tap. Dog and family friendly. Great location too. Fish and chip to die for 👍

Really love the place especially during the summer days. Drinks are well interesting with different flavours that I've not come across before. well worth visiting. ..🍺

Great pub with a wide range of beers. We stopped for a drink and little pie before lunch. They advertise lots of interesting events, but we were there at the wrong time. Well worth a visit.

A great place to relax. The manager and all the staff are always on hand to help. Highly recommended Full marks.

Great beer in a lovely environment 🍻

Beautiful location, great choice of beers, including three gluten free beers on tap, really friendly staff, it's the best drinking spot I've ever found on a canal journey!

Great beer, good music, bar snacks, coffee from darkwoods next door, different food vendors at the weekend and they have cool plants too. This place is a vibe 🙌

Very nice coffee and good music.

Alice was really a star helping me with my order that went astray. Beer is fantastic and makes a wonderful gift as I have discovered. Thank you once again.

Fantastic taproom and even better beer garden when the sun is shining which is next to a river. Visiting food vendors - on our visit it was waffles which were scrummy!

Love it here on a sunny day. Huge beer garden where the kids can run around. Good beer and pop up food usually of great quality (check it's your kind of food first) It's a great place to walk to along the canal or by bike from Marsden. Gorgeous valley

Lovely place with friendly quiet atmosphere, fantastic beers, highly recommend

Great pub, with fantastic beers. Great selection of food traders that serve out of here. It's worth following them on social media so you can see what's on.

Yet again another amazing afternoon with the legendary guys @zapato_tap with friends and doggos too! Lovely location, great beers and superb staff! #zapatobrewery #streetfood #shoplocal #supportlocal #slawit #marsden

Great atmosphere, beer and food! Probably my favourite venue of all time, couldn’t recommend this place highly enough!

Chilled out eclectic bar by the canal with half a dozen craft ales on tap plus a further selection of bottles and cans in the fridge. Peter (DJ) provided a great background of music to a very full room from his prime position at the end of the bar! Roll on summer where the spacious outside area has been known to accommodate live bands.

Wonderful find, great selection of their own beers cask, keg and to take away. Small pies and flapjacks available to eat, and there are regular food and music events. Clean, spacious and warm. Seating indoor and out. Friendly staff.

Called in for a coffee and wasn't disappointed. This place is a quirky place that is obviously known by local residents. It was lovely and busy but we're able to find seats next to the window to watch the world pass by. We'll call in again if in the area. It'll be lovely in warm weather when sitting outside is more comfortable.

Just popped in for a coffee. Very interesting spot, will definitely return

Fantastic place to visit. Staff and vibe really welcoming and of course the drinks never disappoint 😊

Utterly wonderful place. Wide range of on tap ales with 4 fabulous non alcoholic ones. Superb apparently ever-changing range of really good food, very friendly helpful staff. Nice beer garden alomgside the canal. So impressed!

Afternoon visit for the food truck, excellent service just a shame we had to eat out in the cold.

Visited the Christmas markets and purchased a few items. Couldn't not have a couple of beers also.

The beer is fresh and tasty. Staff helpful and friendly. Parking close. Super location, on the canal between Slaithwaite and Marsden. Perfect for walkers to drop in. Was busy this Saturday afternoon. They have street food at weekends plus other food events. Today was Malaysian. Excellent quality. The place was full today. Outside was busy too.

2nd time visiting and just as good! It's a lovely walk from slaithwaite down the canal. The staff are really friendly, always on hand for a recommendation. The food van (Jamaican) was amazing. The goat curry was incredible Will be back

Why wouldn't you sample and collect at same time? Great place

Real nice gem that we stumbled upon on our walk, it would be rude not to pop in and have a drink. Staff were lovely and the place was really cool and quirky. I marked it down a little just because I'm not a fan of ipa and craft ale, that's more a me thing! Well worth a visit if your passing :)

Always a great day/night out. Friendly, greet beer and guest food. Massive bonus it's dog and kid friendly!

Great little place. Les and his team do a fabulous job!! Love it here!! Its a nice little walk on the canal too! 🥰

Great setting on the canal, friendly, helpful service and fab beer. Oh and dog friendly. Perfect. Highly recommend!

Great venue, decent beer, let down by shocking service. Not the first time either, so certainly the last.

Not cheap but great space. Great beer

Great place for a nice pint while enjoying a walk along the canal

Lovely setting with amazing countryside views, beers nice with a good selection. I recommend the shoom IPA, light and refreshing. Good value, lovely service.

Friendly staff, lovely beer, interesting selection in the fridge to take home too. The location is brilliant with good parking or a nice walk from either Marsden or Slaithwaite. The good vendors are varied and tasty. 100% worth a visit, especially if the sun is out, having said that they have good indoor space too. 10/10.

Great beers and pork pies. Perfect stopping point off the towpath between Marsden and Slaithwaite

Nice cosy bar with helpful, very friendly staff. Great beer and a good selection of cans and bottles. Also the outside area is excellent for families or just chilling out in the sunshine. The quality of food vendors on over the weekends are great too.The art exhibition by Claire Murray is excellent! Also they just won "Camera's season pub of the year award"!

One of my favourite places. Great beer, great good, fantastic staff and great outdoor space for the kids 💚

Had been meaning to visit for a g e s, but, well, hadn't. Today, on way back from Marsden I called in, well, it's on my way home and it was well worth it. Enjoyed my chocolatey coffee stout (10% 😲) and ate a Greek meal, also delicious, from the pop-up on site, Taka Taka Mam 😎

Fantastic little hideaway here, well worth a visit.

Excellent beer, good coffee, good service. Nice place on a sunny day.

Regulars at Zapato, which is our favourite bar, but please get some more bar staff on, the queue today was bordering on farcical.

A great place with a warm welcome and a great selection of ales.

Amazing bar/brewery. They have the best outdoor seating I've ever seen. They have events with food often. The beers are good, the service is nice but a little slow because the beers seem to be too heavily carbonated, so they spend a lot of time decanting to deal with the head. 🤣

Lovely place, fantastic setting , great beers and today got a curry van outside ! Wicked or as the youngsters say " sic" !!!

Always a nice vibe here especially on a sunny day where the whole family can enjoy a relaxing time by the river drinking and eating. There are a good variety of food vendors. This week was Rad Burger from Manchester and they were some of the best burgers we’d eaten. The beer is always good and reasonably priced for craft beer.

Bit funky, crisp flavoured pils, nice and cold. Happy daya

Fantastic watering hole on our walk between Slawit and Marsden. We'll try the food next time!

Great place staff knowledgeable really good pint will definitely call again

Great place to spend the afternoon and evening with friends, eating, drinking and socialising. Fantastic outside seating and great beer!

Really nice pub just off the canal tow path. Good selection of ale and there's normally a food truck outside selling excellent food (changes every week).

Enjoyed our stop at Zapato for a drink whilst walking along the canal. Busy place ( Saturday afternoon) but plenty of outdoor seating. Great selection of ales.

Good spot just off the canal path. Good choice of beers. We sat outside undercover from the showers but they also had open air seating for summer. Street food serving loaded fries of your choice. Enjoyed it!

Cracking beer, will be back for another

Small independent brewery that has a good selection of beers wines and spirits, their own brews being well worth the try.

Great beer, great food, great views

I say potato you say zapato! Very nice brewed ales here - good outside food area alongside canal with indoor seating area. Often a street food van outside at the weekends as well👍

Cosey gaff. Amazing coffee. Good vibe. Families welcome. Friendly staff. Beer a bit hit and miss (in my opinion), but there's usually something top notch on keg or cask

Great beer and beer garden in lovely setting .

Pity they dont brew on site but its an amazing place

Love this place, such a good space, good food and plenty of drinks to choose from. If walking along the canal this is a place you must visit! ♥️

We end up here most weeks. On a warm day there’s plenty of outdoor seating, and their new indoor bar area is lovely. Teddy the lab loves to play in the river at the bottom of the field

Love the shoom shandy and The Rad burgers were amazing

The definition of a hidden gem! This brewery is far enough off the beaten track to deter ale-trailers and wronguns, resulting in a really chilled, family friendly vibe. Alongside their own beers, Zapato serves local independent alcohol, as well as Lancashire squash. The outside seating features tables (some covered) and a large field which leads to a stream, and on a sunny day it's truly idyllic. The indoor seating and bar area has been recently refurbished and is lovely and cosy. Almost every weekend, Zapato hosts a food truck, making it possible to enjoy anything from dumplings to Sri Lankan food via pizzas and Mexican - all a short walk along the canal.

Great choice of real ales Nice to sit out on the grass next to the river

Great beers in a great location, with a good rotation of street food vendors. Have found the staff quite unfriendly on both visits, so might be something to work on.

Great bar next to the Huddersfield canal. Plenty of seating outside some undercover. Great atmosphere inside and great playlist! Staff were very welcoming and friendly. Good choice of there own ales and some guest beers in the fridges. Street food was delicious. Nice clean unisex toilets love the old safe ! Well worth a walk along the canal from Slaithwaite or Marsden.

An absolutely brilliant taproom experience. knowledgeable, friendly staff. Clean toilets and plenty of outdoor seating. Highly recommended! Oh and beers awesome!

Really nice stop off when walking along the canal in between Slaithwaite and Marsden.

Enjoyed a relaxed afternoon here, great beer and pleasant family atmosphere. Recommended!

Great little spot on my tour of huddersfield with the brother. Great hops and lovely outside area, a little piece of tranquility

Lovely selection, great surroundings and friendly team.

Excellent venue for vital sustenance on a walk along the canal ;). Outside space is fab for families too

Excellent, what a find when walking on the canal. Keep it up and keep bringing the food guys in.

A relatively new micro brewery located between Slaithwaite and Marsden, it has an appealing decor and play a selection of chilling background music to suit all tastes. Seating inside is comfortable with a number of picnic style seating outside and it's also pet friendly. Zapato have a varied selection of drinks to choose from, which I believe they produce the beers and ales themselves. Food is fantastic and there have a different style of street food on site every week! A great place to be and look forward to going there again!

Great spot for a craft beer. Amazing in the summer to sit out.

Spot on for a drink during a cycle/walk down the canal. Not so much a food place. Will be back

Opening times are wrong. Quite annoying as I was picking up an order. First experience not very good. Don't think I will bother with them again.

Cozy little bar, lovely walk along the canal to get there. Nice selection of cordials for the kids.

Shared a wonderful afternoon with friends at Zapato Brewing lovely seating area in the garden with a food truck. Great craft beer friendly and helpful staff. A must return. Thank you.

Excellent beer great location friendly staff and a cute dog.

Friendly service and tasty beers in a garden setting, what's not to like?

Amazing freshly brewed beers - the Berliner weisse and stout are some of the best I've had anywhere. Super beautiful spot right by the river, and fantastic covid protocols etc. An incredible addition to the area, stop reading this review and book your table already!

Brilliant place tucked away ssshhh tell no one else

Friendly service, great views and excellent beers.

This place is amazing. Small inside but really nicely done - probably the best outdoor space I've seen in a long time to enjoy a pint. Good beers.

Excellent place for a pint after a canal walk.

Cans only when I called. Nice setting though

Excellent beers - unusual and totally delicious...if you are passionate about beer Zapato is a must try!

Very welcoming. Lovely atmosphere and great beer.