Fox Ilkley in Guiseley

Went for lunch today with my sister for the third time the food was outstanding the Waitress, I think it was Isabel was very very welcoming very well mannered very clean and tidy and very very professional professional. It definitely made our visit. Enjoyable we will be back again very soon thank you

Been here a few times now, the service was fantastic as usual. We were served by Emily and Lisa and they were both very friendly, welcoming and patient. One of our starters wasn't quite 5* but was still good. Could have been my taste buds. Would definitely recommend and come back again. Thank you to the front of house and chefs for a lovely lunch.

AVOID. Generally I eat somewhere 3 times before leaving a negative review. Have eaten here something 5 times in the last year due to family or friends asking me and all 5 visits have been DIRE , and for the same reasons, quality of food, slow service and ridiculous prices. It's on the main road towards Burley in Wharfedale from Guiseley. Car park at the back. An old pub so accessibility is not great. I guess they think they are a gastro pub which in this case means they inflate the price, over garnish the food and underdeliver in most areas. I ordered some artisanal bread and dips as a mini starter. When it came out my wife and I were hysterically laughing for 10+ minutes. It was toast! 4 slices of toast, with 2 dips and 2 pieces of butter that were frozen solid. As it happens neither of us had eaten so we wolfed down the toast. Artisanal bread = toast? £6? Nope nope nope. Then I had a salad bowl. Not sure how you can mess up a salad howl.... It had zero taste from overripe avocado to underripe tomato, no dressing, etc, etc. I gave up. It was something around 14£ by the way. Service was painful. Slow beyond slow. The young lad, and 2 young girls on duty spent most of their time behind the corner of the bar drinking coffee and chatting. I don't begrudge them, it was mostly empty and they were probably bored. Best part of the experience? Warm toast with a dip, which was filling... Never going here again. Waste of money. Wetherspoons is a much better experience at a third of the cost. PS just hit 11 million views so quite hapoy with that.

I used to enjoy coming to this pub for a pint with friends and family, but I think I’m done with trying now. Every single time I have been there recently the one “middle of the road” decent ale (Landlord) is off. You ask the staff why and there is always a tale to be told. Here’s a few examples: - “The delivery didn’t come in this week” so blaming the supplier. - “Sorry, it’s just run out and we don’t have any more” which has been used a few times. If it was so flaming popular why on earth aren’t you ordering twice or three times as much? You’d be raking it in 💷💷💷 - “It’s off as we are line cleaning and it won’t be back on for a few hours” which was used this Friday afternoon. Why on earth would a pub be cleaning its lines on one of the busiest afternoon/evenings of the week?! That’s just dumb and by the time we left there was still no sign of it coming back on or any line cleaning activity so they are just taking customers for fools. I suggest the group management of this place have a closer look at the practices being implemented and sort it out as you are getting a reputation with locals and lying to us about corner cutting isn’t a great look. Even the staff on the bar commented to each other about me taking a photo of the beer taps on the way out so they clearly know there could be fallout from this being flagged.

Very nice food. I got the trio of meats and each was cooked really nice, the pork was the tastiest and really melt in your mouth. You don’t get a lot of veg and potatoes so felt the portion wasn’t great considering the price. Maybe some mash or more veg would have been nice. We ordered the cauliflower cheese which was definitely needed. Desserts were lovely. It was very busy as you might expect and felt like the staff were rushed off their feet, they were great and very helpful to us but would have been nicer if I felt they were a bit more relaxed.