Raise a glass to midsummer and linger on the longest day in a pub garden. What could be lovelier? Here are 12 we think you’ll like. Go the full nine yards with the menu if you wish – the food of course comes recommended – but these are pubs, so drinkers and snackers and passers-by are welcomed warmly too.
12 pretty pub gardens for the longest days of the year
Interview
Interview: Tommy Banks on his long-held dream of opening The Abbey Inn
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.
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News bite: Pêtchi opens its doors in St Helier
Expect Jersey oysters with sorrel and cucumber, chancre (brown) crab crumpets with smoked butter hollandaise, and wood-roasted native greens with burnt garlic and garum when Pêtchi opens this week in St Helier. The grill restaurant and wine bar is a second venture for Great British Menu 2020 finalist and Jersey-born chef Joe Baker, and his wife Charlotte, who previously ran Number 10 restaurant, also in St Helier, which closed earlier this year.
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News bite: Carters of Moseley plans a summer in the country
Devotees of Exceptional-rated Midlands restaurant Carters of Moseley will find the restaurant and its team in the Cotswold countryside this summer. Carters at Westlands will run from July 19th in a glasshouse at Westlands, the Evesham-based growers of herbs and edible flowers who are long-standing suppliers to the restaurant.