Dining Out

NOTHING goes better with a summer barbecue than a decent bottle of red wine - and the good news for connoisseurs is that the best bottle is only £4.37 at Asda.

Aux Delices was one of the many victims of the Boxing Day floods, but having reopened, Amanda Wragg finds it has more than weathered the storm.

Monday may be known as chef’s night off but Elaine Lemm decided to throw caution to the wind and visit the Square and Compass in North Rigton.

Rusty Shears in Whitby is a Mecca for the gin and tonic crowd. Oh, and the food’s not bad either, says Amanda Wragg.

The Hilltop Hotel is a fairly sturdy old place with farm fields between it and the nearest house.

The cat’s pyjamas? Headingley’s newest Indian restaurant certainly is says Jill Turton.

The Station is right up there in the top 10 of British pub names, although often there’s no longer sign of any trains. Happily, Silkstone Common sits in close proximity to services to Barnsley and Sheffield in one direction, and Huddersfield in t’other.

I find myself in the somewhat odd position of really wanting to advise you to eat somewhere but not wanting you to blame me if you don’t like it. I appreciate, I’m supposed to offer articulate, inspiring and devilishly witty opinion, so you can decide whether a trip to the establishment in question is worthy of your time.

The Keys (once The Cross Keys) has been a fixture of Hoyland life for a good few generations. But, like so many other pubs in Yorkshire, it fell upon hard times and for a while was boarded up and looked almost ready for demolition. But those days are now behind it and, re-vamped and re-named The Keys, it is mercifully once again open and doing rather well.

Chris Smith and Shawn Horbury have had quite a time getting this place on its feet; three years ago they bought this huge, sprawling 18th century former malthouse and spent 18 months on arefit. You might recognise the handsome exterior; it’s on a quiet side street featured in Sally Wainwright’s Happy Valley.

If you you’re free this Easter weekend, why not pop down to Meadowhall, not for a manic day shopping but for the first ever Artisan food & drink market.

CELEBRITY chef Omar Allibhoy is bringing his taste of Spain to Sheffield, but has fallen for a local delicacy: the chip butty.

It’s been about three-and-a-half years since Dock Street Kitchen opened. Give or take. I reported on it during its first week or so of trading and found it a handsome, full-bodied affair with young, busy staff and pretensions of, if-not grandeur, then certainly greatness. It arrived as the largest and most upmarket eating experience within Hull and this it remains. However, recently there has been a bit of a major change, so – with 2017 looming and – I thought it high time I return to see if the place is fit to face all the attention it’s soon bound to receive. I found, happily, that it most definitely is.

At the end of the promenade, the northernmost part of Scarborough’s North Bay, is the Sea Cut, a natural-looking but man-made channel that drains the Derwent into the North Sea. Here, where the cut meets the sea, sits Old Scalby Mills, a 17th century watermill converted into the most picturesque pub in Scarborough.

Just saying the words ‘The Riverside’ conjures up an image of a charming little rural hostelry, nestling on the banks of a waterway, leading perhaps)to a towpath where ramblers and dog-walkers idle past.

Whitelock’s may have got a new addition in the form of the Turk’s Head Bar, but don’t worry, says Jill Turton, it’s lost none of its charm.

Normally I have no interest in visiting a chain pub, but I have become increasingly curious about The Fox and Roman pub on Tadcaster Road in York.