It's not often you go out for a meal and end up dancing to the sounds of Guns N’ Roses. Or The Beatles. Or even A-ha.

In fact, it’s never happened to me before.

But this highly unlikely scenario did occur last Friday when we went to Jeremy’s in Brighouse for a meal.

For it’s a three-in-one – wine bar, restaurant (which they call kitchen) and live music venue. Every Friday, Saturday and Sunday there’s music – or for those of an older generation what you’d know as ‘a decent turn’ – and last Friday it was Huddersfield covers band Helter Skelter.

They were good too – blasting out stuff from the 1960s right up to now – and good enough to allow the diners to polish off their meals before getting into their full rock stride. The Sunday’s usually an acoustic session. Nice.

Jeremy’s is tucked away near Brighouse town centre – just to the side of Sainsbury’s and next to the Calder and Hebble Navigation Canal with windows looking out over the canal basin which has a history stretching back to 1760.

The bar is the old boathouse that has been sympathetically transformed into a fusion of new and old – roomy with a wooden floor, exposed stonework, beams and a mix of settees and dining tables with a long bar down one side.

The menu sure is varied from sandwiches at lunchtimes through to tapas and a full starter and mains menu on an evening.

So wife Ruth and myself thought we’d mix things up a bit. I went for tapas and she went for a traditional starter and mains. Sheer lunacy, I know, but the waitress didn’t even raise an eyebrow.

One thing Jeremy’s is strong on is a decent meal deal. You can have four tapas dishes and a bottle of house wine for £22. Not feeling ravenous? Go crazy and order a side dish of their big chips for £2.50 as well and you’ll have enough for two for under £25.

So we opted for that and also ordered a starter of chorizo and red pepper focaccia (£6.25) with dressed leaves, olive oil and balsamic dish and a mains of braised lamb steak with Moroccan couscous and toasted almonds (£12.95).

The focaccia was coated in finely diced tomatoes and the dips came in small bowls but could have done with more chorizo and was arguably overpriced, especially when the tapas was offering such good value for money.

There was lots of lamb – and we all know how expensive that is these days – and it was wonderfully tender, nestling on the sultana-blessed couscous complete with salad.

The quartet of tapas were filo prawns and garlic aioli, marinated seafood salad, mackerel fishcakes and lamb meatballs.

All very different dishes ranging from the light prawns complete with tempting aioli – traditional Provencal sauce made of garlic, olive oil, lemon juice and egg yolks – to the chunky, large, quality meatballs in a rich Italian tomato sauce.

The mackerel fishcakes were enormous yet, again, had a delicate touch to them while the marinated seafood salad took some working out. There sure was a lot of the tiny side to seafood in there – shrimps, small mussels, bits of squid and octopus – along with other miniature creatures of the sea that were to remain a mystery. Only go for that if you like this kind of seafood as there’s a lot of it.

The big chips were certainly large and perfectly cooked, crisp on the outside but soft inside.

Just a word about condiments – and what a strange word that is. In so many restaurants you have to ask for vinegar or the salt’s damp and it doesn’t flow out. No need to ask here – they all arrived in perfect working order well before the food.

Other tapas include spiced beef empanadas, glazed chicken wings, stuffed red peppers, feta cheese salad and Indian paneer and lentils.

Mains include roast chicken breast served on a potato fondant with Tarragon cream, Toulouse sausage, garlic mash and butterbean casserole, pan fried sea bass served with prawn bisque and, for those of a vegetarian persuasion, sweet chilli, tomato and basil spaghetti with parmesan and garlic toasts. One favourite is the Jeremy beefburger featuring cheese, bacon and a tomato salsa.

Dessert was a shared affair of white chocolate and raspberry crème brulee and the hard caramel on the top certainly took some cracking. But once we’d broken through the caramel was delightfully chewy while the rest had the seductive pull of a decadent pud. A real melt in the mouth moment.

And as the last mouthful was polished off the band began to play. Our timing was perfect – especially as our table was near the front.

So it turned out to be more than a meal. It was, as they say, a ‘reet grand night out.’

Jeremy's@The Boathouse

Wharf Street, Brighouse, HD6 1PP

Tel: 01484 719819

Website: www.jeremysattheboathouse.co.uk

Opening hours: Food noon to 2pm and from 5pm-8pm midweek with bar open until 11pm Mon-Thurs and until midnight on Friday; food Saturday noon to 8pm and Sunday from noon to 6pm and bar until midnight on Saturday and 11pm on Sunday. Food serving hours due to be extended soon.

Children: Yes

Disabled access: Good access and roomy inside and disabled toilet

The bill: £51.95 including drinks

Would you go back? Yes, we’d like to try the lunch menu and enjoy the view over the canal. Sundays sound good too.

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