Market Place Restaurant at The George in Hambleton

Visited as a couple 7 March. We were staying in the hotel. Ambience was good. The eating area could perhaps do with a bit of updating but it is fine. Menu is a mix of pub classics and more adventurous dishes. I had one of the latter as a starter, Lamb Tagine Roll with harissa mayo and smoked aubergine purée. Very good. The roll had chunks of lamb and the mayo had a kick. Tasted and presented very well. I had steak and ale pie for main. Appeared home made with real chips. Again very good Mrs W had the pork belly which she enjoyed too. We had a very nice bottle of NZ Sav Blanc as well. Very good value.

Had a meal, which was spoilt by the cheese board, having frozen date and fig salami. What made it worse, was one of my friends queried this, and the young lad, behind the bar, said it's supposed to be frozen!!!! I gather, it was supposed to be spreadable. This young lad, then proceeded to kick the kitchen door, in front of all, to see. His attitude, was appalling.

Called in for lunch on spec. Nice, warm and comfortable. Good welcome and excellent menu both full meals and lighter bites. Good pleasant service and overall an excellent experience.

Random choice for lunch, as we were cold and hungry. We were moved, by the staff, to a larger table, for our comfort! Excellent service. We ordered half size meals, couldn’t even finish them. Much impressed by lots of fresh vegetables, and a massive portion of fish. I think we will be back here again, very friendly staff, good service and great food at a reasonable price.

We stopped for Saturday lunch after shopping in the town. The warm cosy setting oozes old world charm. Service was prompt and helpful. The meals were well cooked and nicely presented. We've been before and we shall certainly return.

We ate here for our anniversery very pleasant pub with a good menu and special board. The young man who served us was very helpful and pleasant. We started with the soup which was Tomato and Basil and came with a warm bread roll and butter.. I opted for the roast dinner with a choice of beef pork or lamb I choose the beef which came with Yorkshire and roast potatoes and gravy it would have been nice to have had a small jug of gravy too. A dish of vegetables which included beans cabbage broccoli and sliced new potatoes with small carrots which I shared with my husband.He had a b-b-q chickens dish with mash and veg. WE did not have room for dessert but my husband had a latte and I had a Irish coffee which I have not had for a long time. IT cost a total £45 which we thought quite good

Met family members here for lunch mid week. We've visited once before and were so impressed with the food and service, we just had to visit again! Our second visit was just as pleasing and enjoyable as the first. Delicious homemade food, cooked fresh and quality ingredients. Hot drinks served "hot" just as they should be with tasty biscuits too. Warm welcome and great service too - think we will have to go back for a third visit at some point (too nice not too!!!)

We dropped in here early on a Friday evening after the cafes around the market square had closed for the day. We were after a simple cup of coffee, and they were able to quickly oblige, good value for money, with a cheaper rate if you have a 2nd cup, which was a nice touch. We had a scan of the menu, the food is a bit more expensive than other local rival pubs in town, and the dining room area is maybe a bit more formal, but there were a good range of main course offerings in the £15-20 range. This was a former coaching horse inn, a handy stopover heading north from York in the olden days, and this probably accounts for the rambling layout. It is a hotel with bedrooms available. A good bar with a range of well kept real ales, and the front seating area was starting to fill up with early evening diners ordering food and having a quiet drink before going into the dining area. The dessert options looked quite tempting, and there was a gentle hubbub of conversation, it had a welcoming atmosphere and the staff were polite,efficient, and smartly turned out. If we had more time, we would maybe have eaten here, but it was a handily placed stop for a cup of coffee before heading back home to West Yorkshire.

This is our fourth visit to the George. So pleased that someone recommended this hotel to us. Good food, clean and comfortable rooms and hospitable service makes it a winner for us. The icing on the cake I am reliably informed by himself is the well kept ale! Role on visit number 5

Only called in for a coffee on a Friday Evening but had a good buzz in the bar and seating available in nice restaurant area. Menu looked good with some great deserts. Reasonably priced. Will return to eat sometime. Coffee was good and gave the option for a cheaper refill which was a great idea.

A secret that needs to be told ! Whilst we want to keep The George our secret as it's special, you need to know how good it is so that the chef continues to create special dishes to be enjoyed

We stayed at The George and had lunch and dinner on the Friday and breakfast Saturday & Sunday. I liked the food and my partner loved it! Friendly & helpful staff.

Stayed at the George bank holiday weekend and had a few meals at the market place restaurant the service was excellent tried a few different meals over the stay cannot fault the food it was excellent had to wait while it was cooked but well worth the wait highly recommended 🏆🏆🏆

We ate here both nights we stayed at the hotel and the food was lovely, very well presented and really tasty.

La zona de Market Place en York es en sí misma excelente para sentarse a comer. La comida en este pub es rica bien servida y a buenos precios. Te sientes comodo y bien tratado

We had a family meal - personally I can not complain about the food. I had the venison off the specials board; it was really tender and juicy. I was delighted at the taste of the whole plate. To top it off I had a lovely meringue and chocolate moose dessert afterwards

Attended mid week during half term. It was very quiet in their. It appears to be a very old building and rather old fashioned. The food however was very well presented and tasty.

18 de nosotros, al que asistieron el George por "dejar hacer". Nos dieron 2 tazones de patatas fritas, un par de media sándwiches cada una, una miniatura salchichas roll y un bocado tamaño quiche- presentación era pobre y que nos costó 8,50 libras cada uno!-...

Comida de buena calidad, bien preparada y presentada, con excelente servicio del personal, todo a precios muy razonables. Muy recomendable.

The food was served to perfection of a very high standard, as a coeliac all my needs were catered for, breakfast was buffet style my toast was kept well away from, the rest. The food was cooked to order, the attention to detail is what makes The George a great place to stay. The staff & owners are brilliant. The locals are very friendly a great place for families, or just for a brake

We visited the George twice to eat & really enjoyed it, the roast beef was lovely with a huge Yorkshire pudding & the deserts were excellent, the staff were wonderful, attentive & nothing was too much trouble, prices too, were very reasonable, I would advise booking as it seemed to get very busy, which is always a good sign.

They serve a cracking fish and chips and desserts are excellent. Drinks are not over priced like some and staff are extremely pleasant and friendly

Interesting menu and lots of unusual specials on offer too. I had super sea bass and my partner had the trio of lamb. What a great idea. Wash all that down with locally sourced real ales! Perfect. What are you waiting for?

This is only my third visit here, but the food has been excellent every time. The menu is not huge, however the selection is very varied. The staff are very friendly. The only downfall, the decor is dark and very dated, but we went for the food, not the decor.

Another wonderful stay at The George. Great food, including our wonderful packed lunches, and lovely staff. The place to stay at for travels through the Yorkshire Moors. Shopping in York is so easy from here if you don't want to drive as there is a bus stop right outside the hotel.

The discerning traveller wanting good quality, locally sourced, food will not be disappointed at the George. The menu is sufficient to tempt a wide variety of tastes and the quality will satisfy the most demanding of diners. Staff are polite, discreet but attentive, and serve with a smile. A comprehensive wine list with wines to complement all food ranges at very reasonable prices is available. I recommend that you take advantage of it.

We were not impressed by this place. A nice enough pub with a good choice of beer but the cost of bed and breakfast for a very dated room was comparatively high.The food was unimpressive and not really very memorable. The gravy on my roast beef was sugary sweet. Whether the chef mistook the salt for sugar, I don't know and couldn't be bothered to ask as we will never eat there again

Good location for York, Harrogate, Whitby, Helmsley, Pickering, Malton ,Castle Howard and Thirsk just to name a few. Good clean rooms. Good attentive staff. Excellent food and a good pint

We ate here on the evening of October 23rd 2014 and I have honestly never had such a terrible meal. They really didn't understand that when they ask you how your meal was and you say well it was just ok that that is not a good thing. They thought that was great feedback...weird. I'm 29 and there was no atmosphere at all, I literally felt 50 years too young to be in here.The menu was the most bizarre thing in the world. Chorizo, smoked beef and onion bhaji as a starter and also corned beef hash with a fried egg and bacon as a starter. Obviously these were so weird we had to try them. They were pretty awful. I wanted the haloumi advertised online but that didn't appear on the menu.For mains I had the beer battered haddock which was actually the only pleasing part of my meal. The anaemic uncooked in the middle chips were horrendous. My husband had the scampi which unfortunately came with the same dreadful chips. The scampi was ok.Safe to say we didn't have desserts and were very happy to get out of there as quick as possible.Honestly if you want a decent meal in Easingwold go to Mumbai Indian Cuisine where we went the night before and it was superb. This is the first bad review I've ever written for anything but felt it was absolutely necessary due to the completely inadequate food.

After being to my BFF's funeral we were looking for somewhere pleasant yet discrete for an evening meal and this was a perfect choice. The restaurant area was low lighted and quiet, the menu had a good selection, though not extensive and the service was pleasant without being intrusive. The food was beautifully presented and and tasted really good too.We will be visiting Easingwold again and would quite happily return to The George.

The food was of very good quality for a hotel as im not a fan of hotel food but the food is all local. A bit pricey but you are limited for were to eat near the hotel.

The food was of a high standard well presented and excellent quality ingredients - we were pleasantly surprised - and at a reasonable price. Generous portions !

Easingwold is a beuatifull village (or is it a small town?) and is definitely worth a short diversion from the A19. If you are stopping to eat, the George should be your first choice. Tasty and well-prepared dishes and a good selection of real ales.

we ate here on a Thursday evening for my husbands birthday. it was fairly quiet in the restaurant where we chose to eat although on leaving, the courtyard part of the hotel was full. I had the moules marinere to start; these were lovely & fresh & most importantly not too many of them which a lot of places make the mistake of doing. My husband had the crispy confit of chicken which he said was delicious. for mains I had the thyme marinated chicken supreme & hubby had the pork medley. Both mains were spot on with just enough, portion wise, to fill us up enough to not manage a desert, however I feel that this was also because we did not have a sufficient gap between finishing our starters & our mains being brought out. we are going back to the area next year & will definitely be paying the George hotel another visit.

We arrived here for a meal following a recommendation from the excellent B and B we are staying at, on arrival we ordered drinks and enquired if it was possible to arrange a table for two, they were extremely busy, but welcomed us and arranged a table with no fuss whatsoever. The soup starter was just delicious, I then had the haddock goujons (half portion) which was HUGE, my husband had the trio if sausages which were also delicious, everything was piping hot and perfect, we really wanted to try the desserts but could not fit another thin in, on the whole this was a really enjoyable experience, the owners and the staff are so friendly and welcoming, we plan to go back at least once more before we leave the area, many thanks to all involved.

My wife had a slight problem with her starter, in that she felt it differed from the menu description. On mentioning it, the matter was dealt with promptly and efficiently, without fuss, to everyone's satisfaction. The food was as fresh as it could be, and cooked to perfection. Superb!

My wife's birthday is 2nd. January so we are used to eating in almost empty restaurants when we go for a meal on her birthday. However, The George was far from empty and quite a few people were eating. All the food was delicious, no complaints at all and the menu seemed a little more interesting than the last time we were here. This place seems to have improved considerably recently.

Excellent service and value for money. Excellent food superbly presented. We arrived late, nothing was too much trouble.

Went for Sunday lunch and while the service was friendly, the food was pretty drab. Potatoes pretty hard and meat a bit tasteless. Bar area is cosy when there's people in and there a decent range of ales. Popular with the older generation of Easingwold residents.

The George is a former 18th century coaching inn that offers food, good quality hand-pulled beers (it's listed in CAMRA's 2014 Good Beer Guide) and accommodation. The staff always give a warm welcome and service is very efficient. There are distinct drinking / eating areas within the pub as well as a separate dining room if you want to eat more formally. The menu is varied, from sandwiches (lunchtimes only but including Sunday - very good if you get fed up of pubs that only do the 'traditional' Sunday lunch) to full meals at very reasonable prices for the quality. There are wooden benches in front of the pub overlooking the pretty market place, and parking is free outside the pub..Well worth a visit as is the quaint town itself.

Needed somewhere quiet for lunch and stumbled across this place. On first entering I could have been forgiven for thinking it might have been pensioners day, but to my mind that is often a good indicator. I ordered the Chargrilled Venison with seasonal vegetables, the food came in a time that suggested it was cooked fresh, the venison was spot on and the veg cooked exactly as it should be. everything tasted exactly as it should, carrots tasted of carrots etc.All in all a great meal, great service form a couple of young members of staff who could quite frankly have not cared, but they did, they went out of their way to make me feel welcome, make sure my order was as expected and were attentive but not OTT. All in all an excellent lunch and I am sure I will be returning to try the dinner A La Carte sooner rather than later.

We visited this restaurant, located in a hotel on our first night. Centrally located, a reasonably friendly welcome and an attractive menu was a definite pull and as far as the food was concerned, this was pleasantly served and once we got going sumptuous. However, the only minor gripe was the lack of roast potatoes with a roast dinner, compounded by a small helping of mixed vegetables for two people which contained only half a new potato! To their credit the waiting staff did remedy this by supplying a bowl of new potatoes for which we paid extra. But sometimes you just have to go with the flow........when in Rome......

My parents stayed here some years ago and had nothing but praise, however I was sceptical due to time laps. No need. We had lunch on arrival whilst watching local Fun Run build up, then ate later that day. Food was fresh and piping hot.. Owners made it their business to chat to customers, 2 days later, again we ate here, again marvelous food, piping hot, and again owners chatted amongst all customers, regardless of residents or casual visitors like ourselves. Staff amazing and 'on the ball'. Thank you for 2 lovely meals....

Stayed one night in the hotel after a day in York. Went to the bar for a drink & noticed a very inviting selection of meals on the specials board, was not disappointed with our choices. Well cooked & beautifully presented food throughout our meal. nothing was too much bother as I found out when I asked for a cheese board for dessert which was not listed on the menu. Excellent night. Many thanks.

We liked everything about the restaurant, the service and above all the quality of the cooking - perfect!

The George could be so much better; its location is brilliant but its food is lacklustre, as though the owners can really be bothered with making the effort to improve. They've been there too long and their patrons really deserve better.The restaurant is dullness personified; the bar menu simply poor. So, owners, time to up your act, before your patrons vote with their feet.

Flavourless, tough meat. Vegetables grossly undercooked - even the potatoes! Flavourless gravy. Spiced lamb steak tender strange flavours!

We have eaten here numerous times over 20 years and have never had a bad meal. The food is not so eclectid nowadays but is still very good. Always plenty of fish dishes too. They also do a small version of the roasts for those who cannot keep up with "Yorkshire Eating"

I used to work nearby and then frequently visited The George. Part of it's attraction is that it is 'dated', A typical 'posh place' in a small rural market town. If you are coming down the A19 to York then The George is well worth a one mile detour - parking is easy. As you return to the main road you will find the most fantastic traditional butcher.

Very enjoyable meal as part of a group of 13. My calf's liver on black pudding mash, follow by plum and almond tart with Creme Freche was really good, with well kept Moorhouse's ( all the way from Pendle in Lancashire) and Black Sheep Ales to wash it down with.The atmosphere was good, and the service really friendly. Only minor negative was it did take about 5 minutues to get all 13 of us served, but that wouldn;t be a worry for a smaller party and the food was worth the wait!

Getting to Easingwold late in the evening (approaching 9pm), it turned out to be a choice between The Snug and The George. While the Snug is reckoned to be good, it turned out to be a poor option for my vegetarian wife, offering only one real choice (funny how many places don't realise pesto isn't vegetarian), so after wandering around looking for other restaurants and pubs still serving food, we finally found The George.The food at the George Hotel is served within the bar area, albeit with a good number of tables clearly set aside for dining. The menu wasn't the longest in the world, but had a couple of interesting choices for my wife and plenty to suit me. I can't remember exactly how my wife's dish was described, but it was a twist on a lasagne that tasted fantastic even if it looked a little underwhelming. My own food was (I think) liver, bacon, mash and vegetables with a rich gravy and it was fantastic - good quality meat, well prepared and nicely presented.These meals, coupled with a very nice blonde ale from the bar turned the evening from a desperate search for an acceptable meal into a really nice evening in a nice, friendly pub. We were told afterwards that The George is really for people a fair bit older than us, but we never got that feeling and found it suited us perfectly. What that says about us is another thing.Overall, however, I'd happily recommend it.