The Pheasant Inn, Harome, North Yorkshire
We’ve been going to the Star at Harome for well over forty years now in its various guises. It’s been good, bad, good, average and [hopefully] good or very good […]
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One Devonshire Gardens, Glasgow
Firstly, it’s not to be confused with the Devonshire group of excellent hotels and pubs [think Devonshire Arms at Bolton Abbey – about which more later]. One Devonshire Gardens – […]
Waterside Inn, Bray
We often wondered why on earth there were two [out of England’s four] 3* Michelin restaurants in Bray – a little village on the Thames? Well, now we’ve been we […]
Cod and Lobster, Staithes, North Yorkshire
A day of beautiful sunshine and clear blue sky; the air crisp and the visibility excellent – you can see the ships on the north sea in the distance as […]
Sa Qua Na, Honfleur
The north coast of Brittany and Normandy has a quite unique character, redolent of the great days of seaside holidays from the Victorian period [in England] when villas were built […]
The Star at Harome, North Yorkshire
If you’re a bit anorakish [is that a word…ed?] then you can go round looking at roof tiles and trying to spot what happened in the evolution of buildings. Many […]
Gaspard de la Nuit, Paris
France has been in the news a bit recently so it reminded us of a couple of small excellent restaurants. We like the Marais, that small, neat, discreet area of Paris […]
David Mellor’s Café, Hathersage, Derbyshire
After World War II, Britain embarked on a huge design and construction programme to regenerate the country.The emphasis was on clean, fresh, modern design, sweeping way the remnants of pre-war, […]
The Durham Ox, Crayke, North Yorkshire
About a hundred years ago we went to a nice little village pub in Ashwell or Abington Piggots or some such, Hertfordshire, after a walk across the fields from Steeple […]
Royal Hotel, Runswick Bay, North Yorkshire
There’s a great walk from Staithes along the edge of the cliffs to Runswick Bay. Marvellous scenery and bracing breezes give you a good appetite for lunch at either end. […]
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