The best restaurants in Wakefield Rural Wakefield Yorkshire and The Humber

I often meet with friends at The Barn Kitchen for lunch/afternoon tea and it has always been lovely. However, I met with a friend there for a late lunch yesterday and had booked the table for 3pm. I knew they were open until 4.30pm so we assumed we had plenty of time to eat our main course and then have a hot drink and some cake afterwards. We ate our main course and having waited for quite a while for someone to clear our plates and to ask if we wanted anything else, at 10 past 4 we eventually asked one of the staff if we could order something else. He said he would ask and came back and said they had stopped serving and the kitchen was closed. We asked if we could order some cake and a hot drink, even if it was to take outside. He went back and a blonde lady came over and quite abruptly told us they stopped serving food at 3.45 and asked what we wanted. When we told her what our order would have been she said they had run out so we couldn't have had it anyway so we left and got a drink and some cake from the main shop. None of that would have been a problem if the person who took our order had warned us we wouldn't be able to order anything else after 3.45pm as we would have ordered it all at the same time ... or even if the staff had just been a little more polite about the fact the kitchen was closed ... or perhaps just don't accept bookings for 3pm as it gives customers the impression they have longer than they think!

Very secure location!! Great and friendly security

We have visited twice but unfortunately both times the food took a long time to come . I don’t understand when the restaurant is quiet why it takes 45minutes for 2 kids meals and a burger to come. The food is of good value especially the carvery.

Amazing service today when I went in , ordered a chocolate fudge frappe and got it in the space of 2 minutes nice and quick and the lady behind the counter was really polite and had brilliant customer service . Her name was Courtney and made my drink brilliantly definitely gonna come again .

Friends look forward to visiting me as i always take them to Connie's, and often call for breakfast, passing three other cafes on the way

I have to say this is a very clean , friendly Chinese takeaway , great food , always hot very tasty food. The only thing that I’d say is doesn’t take card payment which sometimes isn’t convenient but can’t fault the takeaway apart from that. 😊

Great breakfast & value for money.

Another great visit to the Red Kite, for us it’s the best part of a two hour round trip but thankfully we’ve been enough times to know it’s reliably good. The food is great, the atmosphere is warm and comfortable and the service is always spot on, this time we were served by Emily who was simply brilliant. We’ll be back again very soon.

Amazing service today when I went in , ordered a chocolate fudge frappe and got it in the space of 2 minutes nice and quick and the lady behind the counter was really polite and had brilliant customer service . Her name was Courtney and made my drink brilliantly definitely gonna come again .

Ordered a mega mixed grill. Steak was under cooked, gammon, chicken and chips were cold. Chips were over cooked. Spoke to the girl behind the bar just ignored me when I spoke to her about the issue. Had to speak to a different gentleman to resolve the issue. Waited 30 minutes for the mixed grill even tho there was only another table of 6 in before me

Great garden centre just always check your receipt as twice we have been over charged and keep hold of it incase of for any electrical products that are faulty

Definitely gone downhill since my last visit. Menu doesn't seem to have as much on it as before and it gets a little boring having the same limited menu if you stay for 2 or 3 nights like I did. That said, the onion bhaji starter is really good and so are the hoisin duck pancakes - pity they couldn't make them into main courses ! The pasta dish I had (linguini I think) was very sloppy and tasteless and the hunter's chicken the next night was also poor and bland. Those 2 meals kind of sum up what to expect here unfortunately. Not cheap and not that good.

Ordered calzone and full roast chicken with Lemon & herd sauce with fries, all of it was amazing! Delivered hot and super tasty! Highly recommended

Poor sandwich sausages were over cooked.

Food was cold, and late and they forgot the mash potato