Restaurant review: Mustard and Punch

Apr 24 2009 By Andy Hirst

Mustard And Punch

6 Westgate, Honley

Rating

Venue Mustard And Punch

Tel 01484 662066

Website www.mustardandpunch.co.uk

Opening hours Monday to Saturday 6pm to 9.30pm

Children Yes

Disabled access Yes in upstairs.

The bill £53.80 including coffee

Would you go again? Absolutely

THE wonderfully-named Mustard And Punch must be doing something very right – especially in such a tough recession.

We phoned on a Tuesday night to see if they had a table for two that evening, not really doubting that they would.

“I’ll have to check,’’ came the reply. “We can fit you in at 8.15pm’’ was the result of a check on the bookings list. Being a born-again cynic I thought they’d be plenty of tables free when we got there the obligatory 20 minutes late.

But many of the tables both upstairs and down in this quaint village Tardis were taken. A Tardis insofar as it looks like a small shop window from the outside, but that’s pure deception. It stretches back quite some way both upstairs and down inside, but no Dr Who or surreal enemies cluttering up the place.

Inside, its wooden floors and wooden panelling along with old sketches and the odd copy of an old Punch from the 1890s on the walls conjure up a cosy setting of times past.

Some pencil sketches date back to the 1930s and 40s. There must have been some unrestrained glee when they were spotted and snapped up.

What the owners do seem to be doing very right at the moment is ditching the A La Carte menu in favour of a set one – £18.50 for two courses and £21.50 for three. A slight A La Carte element remains as several of the dishes will cost a couple of quid or so extra – the rump steak is one and the cheese board another.