The Wheatley Arms

The Wheatley is a great pub with good beer and wine. The food is also great with all the current classics such as belly pork and fish and chips. They also have a range of gluten free options including gluten free bread available on request. The atmosphere is great but I would recommend booking on or Friday or Saturday night. If you have to stay the night in the Leeds area I would recommend the executive room which has a double ended bath and its own deck.

Having passed this place many times, I called in for a meal last night.
What a gem !. Ordered a pint of Taylors Best (Mary Jane and others also available). Was shown to a table, and ordered to start ‘Confit duck and peanut spring rolls with a plum chutney’ (£6.95) followed by one of their fish specials form the blackboard ‘Salmon and Sea Bass fillets with asparagus and bearnaise sauce’ (one of the more expensive options at £16.95).
Waitress came with bread, two nice thick pieces of rustic bread, one white one brown, and both butter and the olive oil /​balsamic vinegar.
Whe the spring rolls came, there were four, rather over the top, as for a starter two would have been sufficient, and with a pile of crisp salad and the plum dressing as well. Delicious, I had no problem eating all four.
The fish main was also a delight, two small fillets each of sea bass and salmon, with a couple of asparagus spears, and some bearnaise sauce in a pot. A side dish of carrots and broccoli also presented.
Thoroughly enjoyable.
Bill £26.95. It was as I was paying that I realised that the Wheatley was also residential. Readers of my reviews will know I stay in the area two nights nearly every week (Mainly at Chevin Country Park Hotel Otley, or Rombalds in Ilkley or occasionally Harrgate or Knaresborough, see my reviews of these hotels) However when I asked about room rates, £80 B & B for a single to me is too much for what is essentially a pub. (I pay £70 at the Chevin) I am sure the rooms will be clean and well appointed, but I would have expcted them to be maybe £60−65 for a single.
I am awarding 5 stars for the meal, but I suspect that had I stayed there, maybe only 4 stars as a hotel because of the price.
Within the last few weeks I now found and reviewed three pubs in the area with really good food., the other two being the The Black Horse at Askwith and the Fox at Menston. I now have a quandary which to go back to !

Out of about ⁶⁄₇ pubs in the group, (Individual Inns), this is the most modern. The others are very traditional. However, this is just great. The Manager knows how to deal with people in an old fashioned way, ie, he’s bloody good. Good beer, good dining and, I suspect, the rooms are well up to scratch.

Visited on Sunday and expected it to be an amazing experience due to rave reviews locally.
Sadly it was not to be. I ordered the chicken pie with mustard mash. When it arrived it was watery chicken sauce, a lump of mustard mash and a 4 cm pie disk plonked on top of one another, with two florets of hard (not al dente) broccoli.
My mum had roast beef, far too rare (though personal choice) the potatoes were double roasted so tasted stale (not crispy) and veg was distinctly lacking and hard!
My husband had linguine which was cooked perfectly but the ‘sauce’ was a salsa dumped on top and was very dry.
The best meal was my son’s who had sausage and mash!
The front of house service was great but the waitress just lacked any lustre and really seemed not at all bothered that we and the couple behind us had issues with our food.
I didn’t buy into the pomp tbh, there are much better, more welcoming pubs than this one.

Very impressed.
We went last night after having various friends recommend the place.
Can’t fault it!
Excellent food and drink.
Reasonably priced.
Very high standard of presentation throughout.
Friendly and interested staff.
Nice atmosphere and busy on a Saturday night (best to book)
Honestly don’t think it could have been any better.
We will be going again.