The best restaurants in Tanfield Hambleton Yorkshire and The Humber

Fantastic friendly pub, great food and staff

Great fresh food and very welcoming staff

We stayed here for 2 nights. Our hostess was very lovely and helpful and remembered our names each time we saw her. I can't comment on value for money as we used a voucher we were given. The room was clean and adequate for us, with WiFi access, tea and coffee, and a TV, and the bed was relatively comfortable. The only thing I can complain about (which is out of the owner's control) was the strong smell of cow manure from the fields nearby, but we needed to have the windows open because the room was warm so just had to put up with that smell. We were asked what we would like on our breakfast and what time we would like it, and it was very nice, a lovely freshly cooked full English and toast. We ate in the restaurant on the first night and the food was lovely. My husband isn't a big fan of Chinese usually but he really enjoyed it. If you don't want to eat there it's a bit of a drive to find somewhere else to eat. We drove about 15 mins to the King's Head in Marsham. There are lots of places to visit in the surrounding areas like fountains Abbey, Ripon, James Heriot related places. Would happily recommend this place and would stay again.

You get a sense of how laid back things are at the Bruce Arms from the website. The gentle humour continues to the front door with a list of who and what is welcome, and who isn't. Inside it is warm and welcoming and on this Sunday lunchtime, in the no man's land between Christmas and New Year, very busy too. We were a little early for our reservation, but were offered a comfy seat at the bar, and we were given menus and invited to check out the specials on the blackboard. We soon got into the swing of things as the fire warmed us up, as did the first round of drinks. The menu has some interesting things on it, we would have been happy with a Sunday roast, but our curiosity was piqued by some of the less standard fare. For starters I had the broccoli dish - doesn't sound exciting the way I have put it - but it was. Roast broccoli with a broccoli puree and a fresh tasting accompaniment which had diced broccoli, onion and other clean tasting ingredients. The blurb on the menu said that they were trying to make broccoli 'sexy' - don't know about that, but it was certainly tasty. For the main course we went for the Stone Bass - absolutely excellent. Served on a bed of crushed potato with an intervening stratum of samphire and capers, it was a wonderful combination of flavours. If you have this, get them to make up a plate of greens for you as a side dish - we did, and that was really good too. My wife has the frangipane for pudding and I had the afogato, both of which were excellent. The menu was like a table d'hote so £31 for two courses and £37 for 3. Food of this quality at that price represents very good value. We have been here before, but a while ago, but we did remember that our dogs would be welcome. The table that we had in the corner of the room was excellent for Betty and Luna, and they were able to find their own space and settle down out of the way of other customers and the serving staff. The service was attentive, and friendly without being overpowering - but actually very quick. After a winter's morning walk this was the perfect lunchtime treat before the dark started to set in. Highly recommended.

What a find. Stayed at The Bull and ate there too. Extremely friendly team and the food was amazing. Cooked breakfast was equally as good. Comfortable room/beds. Will definitely be back.

Stopped for lunch on our way to Thorpe Perrow Arboretum. It was 12.30 and we were the only diners which was a little worrying but we needn't have been concerned. Ordered one steak and kidney pie and one warm chicken salad with melted brie. Huge portion of pie filled with tender meat in a delicious gravy. Interesting, tasty chicken salad. We were served by a very friendly, helpful gentleman. One criticism, the room was cold, we both wore thick sweaters but we still felt a bit chilly. Good value and if we lived nearer we would eagerly return.