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items: Best restaurants in Leeds
items: Best restaurants in York 2025: where to eat and drink
items: Best burger restaurants across the UK
items: Horto, Rudding Park, Harrogate: restaurant review
items: Norse, Harrogate: restaurant review
items: Skosh, York: restaurant review
items: The Coach House at Middleton Lodge, Richmond: restaurant review

Best restaurants in Leeds
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date: 2025-04-09T09:06:44.000Z
creator: Alex Crossley
subject: Restaurants
subject: Yorkshire & Humber
subject: Yorkshire & Humber travel
subject: UK
subject: Travel
subject: Local city guides
subject: Students
description: Check out our guide to the best independent coffee shops, bars and restaurants in Leeds. From trending bakeries to perfect date-night dinners, Leeds has a thriving independent food and drink scene
encoded: Looking for restaurants in Leeds? Yorkshire’s largest city combines glitzy clubs, bars and Victorian arcades with an arty undercurrent that buzzes with live music, proper pubs and independent shops and stalls such as The Corn Exchange. Leeds’ food and drink scene has evolved over the years, adapting to the city’s diversity, and it now boasts some of the best independent places to eat and drink in the country. From trendy new-wave coffee shops to craft breweries, casual dining restaurants to street food trucks, Leeds has become a serious foodie hub. For more exciting restaurants and weekend ideas for food lovers, check out our best UK city breaks. For more regional dining recommendations, discover the best restaurants in Manchester, best restaurants in York, best restaurants in Newcastle and best restaurants in the Lake District. Best places to eat and drink in Leeds Bavette – for a French bistro In little over a year, this new wave French bistro has established itself in the affections of handsome Horsforth, a town-slash-suburb just north of Leeds, and won wider regional and national acclaim. Chef Sandy Jarvis executes the classics in style (onion soup, cassoulet, shellfish bisque, crème brûlée), while manager and sommelier Clément Cousin pours interesting low-intervention wines, including some made by his family in the Loire Valley. Bavette is the kind of neighbourhood restaurant we would all want on our doorstep. bavettebistro.com Eat Your Greens – for veg-forward small plates Fundamentally, a bar-restaurant serving tasty veg-forward plates, natural wine and A1 craft beers, this hip, friendly space is also part provisions store, a platform for local DJ talent and hosts various foodie events. It’s a busy fulcrum of good things, basically. A keen focus on seasonal, local and organic produce underpins a menu of sharing plates that might range from smashed potatoes with umami chilli salt and garlic aioli or beetroot, pickled red onions, confit garlic ricotta and beetr…

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Best restaurants in York 2025: where to eat and drink
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date: 2024-11-26T10:18:49.000Z
creator: Tony Naylor
subject: Travel
subject: UK
subject: Yorkshire & Humber
subject: Restaurants
description: Check out our top spots to eat and drink in York. Wander down the city’s higgledy-piggledy back streets to find inventive tasting menus, delis and cafes
encoded: Looking for the best restaurants in York? This medieval town has always offered plenty to history buffs and café-goers, but a quiet foodie revolution, too, has recently been taking place. Wander down one of York's higgledy-piggledy backstreets and you'll find a new crop of young chefs putting the city's food in the spotlight, from Micklegate to The Shambles and beyond... For more exciting restaurants and weekend ideas for food lovers, check out our best UK city breaks, Yorkshire foodie guide and discover the UK's best artisan bakeries. For more city guides, try our best restaurants in Liverpool, best restaurants in Leeds and best restaurants in Newcastle. Jump to: Best restaurants in York Foodie neighbourhood in York Foodie experiences in York More of the best restaurants, cafés and food shops in York olive's 10 best places to eat and drink in York For a banging brunch: Partisan Impressive all-dayer: York Minster Refectory The hot seat: Skosh Rising bakery: Cosgriff & Sons For a wine bar with excellent food: 22 Yards For a cut-above casual: Los Moros For proper pizza: Cresci Big night blow-out: Roots A local legend: Coconut Lagoon Street food stars: Spark: York Best restaurants in York Partisan Simultaneously an impressive bakery – its gorgeous cake counter visible from the street – and, behind that, a vintagestyled café and art gallery serving memorable plates of, for example, shakshuka, eggs benedict and seasonal french toast variations. In particular, don’t miss the scrambled Persian spiced eggs with spinach, caramelised onions and Medjool dates. Last year, a sister restaurant, Brancusi, was opened nearby. Unlike daytime-only Partisan, Brancusi also serves an evening menu of modish small plates. partisanuk.com York Minster Refectory Renowned Yorkshire chef Andrew Pern runs two attractive York venues: The Star Inn the City on the River Ouse, and the Refectory, located in a former school by York Minster. Whether drinking in the view from the terrace, grabbing a tak…

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Best burger restaurants across the UK
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date: 2019-09-03T09:10:57.000Z
creator: Mark Taylor
subject: East England
subject: East Midlands
subject: London
subject: North East
subject: North West
subject: Northern Ireland
subject: Restaurants
subject: Scotland
subject: South East
subject: South West
subject: Wales
subject: West Midlands
subject: Yorkshire & Humber
description: Get your burger fix courtesy of Britain’s finest patty purveyors, from Korean brisket burgers in the North West, to beef short rib cheeseburgers in the capital
encoded: Looking for the best burger restaurants across the UK? Want to know where to find the best gourmet burgers? Read on for our restaurant guide, or check out our burger recipes here... Best burger restaurants in London… Buster's, Brixton A stone’s throw from Brixton station is potentially the best new burger in London. You’ll find it at Buster’s, effectively a hole in the wall joint, bar a few small tables, serving up delicious wagyu beef and fried chicken burgers. The London restaurant scene is full of spots trying to claim they do ‘simple things, executed perfectly’ but Buster’s is a spot that is actually nailing it. The wagyu cheeseburger is made up of tender meat, seasoned perfectly and cooked to a juicy medium. The green peppercorn dijonaise adds a welcome acidity, and the potato roll it is all sandwiched between is soft and bouncy. The chicken burger is equally excellent, crispy, juicy and served with plenty of pickles. The IPA cheese sauce is aerated and rich, perfect for dipping lots of hot, crispy fries in. We finished off the meal with a chocolate mousse, which was light but decadent. If you’re looking for a great burger south of the river, Buster’s is where it’s at. busterslondon.co.uk Supra Burger, Queen's Park Housed as a permanent pop-up in the cosy rotisserie restaurant Cocotte, Supra does smashed burgers and it does them well. The burger menu is short and the five burgers on offer are a variation on double stacked smashed cheeseburger, to which you can add bacon or salad, or change up the sauce to make it a Supra, truffle or barbecue burger. The burgers are generously portioned but without being too big to eat. There’s attention to detail in the preparation, along with the use of high-quality ingredients, resulting in burgers that are juicy, flavourful and smashed to perfection. The fries are crisp, golden and fresh from the fryer, and a side of chicken tenders were succulent from what we guessed must have been a wet brine. As well as a choice of six sa…

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Horto, Rudding Park, Harrogate: restaurant review
type: item
date: 2019-03-08T11:21:50.000Z
creator: Alex Crossley
subject: Restaurants
subject: Yorkshire & Humber
description: Try Nidderdale duck ragout, scallops with garden peas, and Yorkshire cheeses at Rudding Park's produce-led restaurant
encoded: Looking for restaurants in Harrogate? Read our review of Horto, and check out more restaurants in Yorkshire here. Horto in a nutshell Rudding Park’s kitchen garden-led pop-up has found a permanent home in the country hotel’s smart spa. What’s the vibe? Horto sits in Rudding Park’s swish spa, so expect guests to pad past the large glass doors in robes and slippers on their way to the rooftop pool. The restaurant maintains its relaxed, funky vibe from its pop-up days – a contemporary fireplace sits below a bold, neon canvas, mustard chairs and teal blue velvet booths beckon punters from the bar, and flashes of florals creep in to complement the garden view. What’s the food like? Head chef Murray Wilson works closely with gardener Adrian Reeve to conjure up a seven-course tasting menu based around what’s in season. There’s an a la carte option also, should you wish to enjoy heartier portions (with the added pull of sides such as wrinkly, skin-on new potatoes and garden brassica in a soy dressing). Start by slathering roast chicken butter onto stout and treacle brioche, and popping elegant cacao spheres into your mouth, bursting with a surprising but delicious oyster emulsion. Loch Fyne scallops sat on a bed of crunchy potato cubes and the sweetest peas, pulled together with an umami-rich chicken and truffle velouté. Cornish cod with parsnip cylinders, mussels and foamy fish sauce was delicious, but the real highlight was Nidderdale duck served with roast beetroot ends turned upside down like spindly wizard hats and a small but perfect mound of duck ‘ragout’ – a rich, indulgent fry-up of duck offal. Desserts had plenty of wow-factor (a dramatic white chocolate and yuzu dome laced with sea buckthorn hid tiny cubes of fresh pear), but do try the cheese selection from Settle-based cheesemongers The Courtyard Dairy (who supply L’Enclume, Black Swan at Oldstead and more). We tasted one of the first 400 wheels of rich, clotted cream-like Winsdale brie, along with sheep’s-milk…

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Norse, Harrogate: restaurant review
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date: 2017-09-14T10:40:21.000Z
subject: Yorkshire & Humber
subject: Restaurants
description: Does a regular diner reach the same conclusion about a restaurant as a food pro, who may get special treatment if recognised?* Emma Sturgess and olive reader Andrew Murphy compare notes on this new Scandi-inspired opening
encoded: Check out our review of Norse in Harrogate, and see if an expert restaurant critic comes to the same conclusion as an olive reader... The pro Emma Sturgess is a journalist and restaurant critic based near Manchester who writes for The Good Food Guide and SquareMeal. She loves anything with butter in it. The punter Andrew Murphy lives in York and eats out several times a month. His most memorable meal was the tasting menu at The Black Swan at Oldstead, and his guilty pleasure is pork scratchings. About Norse Following a successful kickstarter campaign, Paul Rawlinson and Simon Jewitt (pictured below, left to right) have upped their game from an evening pop-up in Harrogate’s Scandi café, Baltzersens, to a permanent home in the pretty spa town in North Yorkshire. Norse plays on Paul’s Norwegian heritage to offer a Scandi-inspired casual-dining restaurant –plenty of oak and beech wood, a wall of moss, smart leather banquettes – with waiters dressed casually and a Nordic menu to match. Go all in with the weekly-changing seasonal tasting menu (£49), or choose from a dozen or so small plates. Dishes include Whitby crab with cucumber and pea; and confit hake with hay-baked celeriac, mussels, roasted lettuce and BBQ bone sauce. Well-balanced desserts range from crisp Norwegian krumkake waffle biscuits with whisky gel and blackcurrant, to sharp sea buckthorn tart with cardamom ice cream. norserestaurant.co.uk Our pro's Norse restaurant review… *I was not recognised. If not by the fermented vegetables, you shall know Norse’s intentions by its Scandi-modern décor. Or, of course, the casual but knowledgeable service, as predictable a feature of contemporary Nordic-inspired restaurants as the ornamental moss in the loo. In fact, just one plaid-shirted member of staff made the effort to engage with us, warmly and well, while her colleagues favoured the dish-delivery equivalent of a Gallic shrug. Like Harrogate’s famous silver Viking hoard, Norse’s menu is an embarrassment of riche…

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Skosh, York: restaurant review
type: item
date: 2016-07-19T10:53:09.000Z
subject: Yorkshire & Humber
subject: Restaurants
description: Read our restaurant review of Skosh in York, where chef Neil Bentinck has created an inventive and contemporary small plates menu peppered with Asian flavours
encoded: The medieval town of York has always offered plenty to history buffs and café-goers, but a quiet foodie revolution, too, has recently been taking place. Wander down one of the higgledy-piggledy backstreets and you'll find a new crop of young chefs putting the city's food in the spotlight. Head under the ancient arch of Micklegate, for example. Once known for its pub and club crawl ‘The Micklegate Run’, the listed buildings on this street now house some top-notch restaurants, the newest addition to the block being trendy Skosh. After seriously starry stints at Northcote, Pipe and Glass and The Star Inn at Harome, along with extensive travels in Asia, half-Indian chef Neil Bentinck has returned to his hometown to open this contemporary small plates restaurant. Taking inspiration from the street food of Thailand, Japan and India, Neil’s menu is peppered with on-trend Asian influences – sweet and savoury doughnuts, cauliflower rice, ceviche – it's all there. The contemporary interiors of Skosh combine stained pine wood tables with bold yellow and grey touches. Sit on the table in the middle of the restaurant that’s framed by a striking jade painted arch, or get close to the action on a high seat looking onto Neil’s open kitchen that glows at night thanks to bright yellow tiles on the back wall. Cutlery is balanced on wooden blocks, handmade for the restaurant, and dishes are served on bespoke ceramic crockery in earthy colours, created by Neil and ceramicist Jess Jos. The small plates menu (the word Skosh comes from the Japanese ‘sukoshi’ meaning ‘a small amount’) is made for sharing, and our waiter suggested five or six small plates between two, or two to three of the larger options. Hand-finished ceramic plates arrived in swift succession - crisp square nuggets of saddleback pork were accompanied with a sweet and sour tangy gooseberry ketchup, jewel-like granola-fried Skosh chicken was dipped in a delicate sorrel emulsion, and molasses-cured wild sea trout came on lit…

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The Coach House at Middleton Lodge, Richmond: restaurant review
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date: 2016-01-05T12:39:07.000Z
subject: Yorkshire & Humber
subject: Restaurants
description: Read our review of The Coach House restaurant with rooms in North Yorkshire. Set in a beautifully converted stable yard, it delivers locally sourced ingredients cooked with intelligence, respect and flair - a truly memorable dining experience.
encoded: Middleton Lodge, a grand Georgian country house hotel just outside Richmond in North Yorkshire, used to overshadow the adjoining stable yard – but after careful restoration and the addition of nine luxury bedrooms, it’s The Coach House that’s attracting attention now. Thankfully, the original building remains and has been gently improved by adding beautiful arched French windows, a lick of pastel-coloured paint and glowing lamps on the walls. Arranged in a horseshoe shape, The Coach House’s focal point is its restaurant in the east wing, where chef Gareth Rayner presides over what he calls 'an accessible menu that makes our favourite ingredients sing'. The space itself impresses with high-domed ceilings, a stylish bar and flickering candlelight come evening time. A basket of beer and onion bread – slightly sweet and pillowy soft with a chewy crust ideal for gnawing – set the standard for what turned out to be a special evening. It’s the first time we’ve eaten four slices of bread (each) before starters. Chargrilled broccoli with salty Iberico Bellota, pickled Jerusalem artichokes and toasted hazelnuts was vividly colourful and a party of textures – dehydrated Jerusalem artichokes made a satisfying crunch and provided a great contrast to velvety smooth artichoke purée. The crispy duck egg with salty pancetta, meaty mushrooms and truffle was also faultless. As for mains, sous-vide venison saddle was ruby red and tender enough to eat with a spoon. Delicious on its own, but accentuated here with sweet blackberry vinegar, perfect circles of cabbage and fat chunks of salt-baked beetroot. I’d happily make the four-hour drive from London to The Dales again for that kind of game. Flaky roast cod with soft potato ‘risotto’ showcased the same intelligent cooking style and we loved how our beer-pickled onion shells acted as pools for the vinaigrette. Despite varied menu choices, our sommelier (the friendliest we’ve ever had) found us a Spanish Albarino that surprisingly matched…

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