It must be the perfect country inn: an 18th-century former farmhouse of mellow stone, set in a beautiful, wooded valley, in the heart of the North York Moors National Park, four miles from Rievaulx Abbey and bang opposite the 12th century Cistercian, Byland Abbey. Jill Turton takes a first look at The Abbey Inn, Byland.
Mark Hix will permanently close his Dorset pub The Fox Inn in July after only 18 months of trading.
Teej Sparks is the co-founder of Wales’ Best Local Restaurant 2024, Inn at the Sticks. How have they been celebrating the win? The Good Food Guide finds out.
This new venture by Robin Read is the best news for Tunbridge Wells. Having spent his early years working for some of the UK’s most electrifying chefs (and the last sixteen as executive chef of the luxury Firmdale Hotel Group), The Counter is the result of Read’s long-held dream to have his own restaurant. It has the makings of a destination – a relaxing neighbourhood restaurant with a big-city attitude.
Cambridge, small as it is, isn’t without good restaurants. Fame has likely helped. But a prestigious institution does not guarantee food worth eating, and even if the pubs are old and crooked in their charm, elsewhere dining rooms well dressed, there are duds aplenty in the city, just as there are in Oxford. And so let us be guided. Local Alex Rushmer, the owner of the restaurant Vanderlyle, offers his expertise.
