The Silly-Yak Shack in Redcar and Cleveland

Brilliant place very friendly staff and sharing board five star ⭐

great sausage rolls and chesse straws

Lovely,cosy welcoming space , only had coffee and lemon Italian pastry but will be back .

We went to the Saltburn truffled hog for Valentines night. Our first experience with truffled hog (Stokesley) had been a poor one food wise but as this was some years ago and a different venue we thought we’d give it a try. The food standard overall was very high, the only gripe we had was the ‘Black vanilla’ ice cream as part of the pudding sharing platter. Intrigued as to how they’d manage to get it black we soon found out it was just food colouring as our mouths, lips and teeth turned black. Looking around the restaurant you could pick out who plumped for that pudding too. Not what I’d expect of a ‘good’ restaurant. Now to the main reason for a low score…the service. Three staff were on the floor that night. The male server was excellent but unfortunately we saw little of him. The 2 females were pretty shocking though. We waited around 20 minutes to be served after getting our menus, then another 10 for our drinks to arrive (this restaurant has about 10 tables). After our main course arrived, the waitress realised we’d used our cutlery on our starter and said she’d come back with fresh. Off she went, only for us to see her come back out and go to other tables to take payments and orders. After about 5 minutes (you try looking at your rapidly cooling for that long) we had to grab her attention from the other side of the restaurant. Her excuse ‘Sorry, we’re so busy tonight’. Overall attitude was crap, actually looking us up and down and frowning when we said we were ok for drinks. Hopefully they were temporary staff or ones that have climbed the steep learning curve quickly since then. Unfortunately, however good the food is, the service taints the whole experience 🫤

Great food and good atmosphere, Hot shot parmo was spot on