The best restaurants serving British food in England

Wonderful experience for a birthday celebration. Dave is a wonderful host and the food is amazing. Thank you for making the evening so enjoyable.

No.15, a boutique Guest House and restaurant and, first stop, cocktails with it’s weird and wonderful bar fashioned in scalloped leather scales to resemble exotic fish. Pretty cool place. I have a penchant for lighting and music which, combined, can either create or kill the perfect ambience in equal measure. The backdrop beats were on point, but the lighting was too severe for my liking. Nonetheless I downed an excellent Negroni before we were escorted downstairs to the small (36 covers) convivial restaurant. Like the bar the restaurant has plenty of attention-grabbing details including the vast array of eclectic portraits lining the walls and other odd arts and objects. The menu is welcomingly short with just half a dozen choices for each course which, in turn, gives the Diner assurance that the chef is confident in their ability to nail each one by applying the less is more mantra. For the most part we were served with memorable and seriously good cookery. Focussing on all that was great, I started with Bath chaps (pigs’ cheek) served with smoked bacon, pear relish and endive and followed with duck breast, swede and duck leg boulangère potato with a peppercorn jus. We shared honey roasted root vegetables. All excellent and surprisingly good portions. She kicked-off with ricotta and sage gnocchi which she declared was magnificent and followed with 30-day aged ribeye steak with a port and stilton sauce, roast mushroom and chips. Finally, we two-spooned a sticky toffee pudding in a Bath ale toffee sauce with honeycomb ice cream. Was this culinary perfection ? Well not quite with just a couple of small niggles. The pre-starter bread may have come from the legendary Bertinet Bakery, but it was, in all honesty, bland and served with butter. A personal thing but I prefer an extra virgin olive oil and aged balsamic dip. The chips had an odd spry crisp’n dry after taste. The bill came in at a reasonable £132 (including 10% service).

Went for present from son in law for afternoon tea good place to visit staff excellent experience brilliant good old customer care cafe also serves tea coffee cold and hot food great place to visit and will go back again simple good food great value for money well priced and affordable with care taken on presentation of afternoon tea experience

Best fish and chips around. Been twice in the last month after hearing good things about the place and on both occasions it hasn’t disappointed. Great service and delicious food. The fish is the best I’ve had in a long time.

Ok never again , Don’t know where to start , ok good things popadoms naan rice we’re all good. Bad things lamb tikka masala very runny sauce strange taste 6 bits of meat small, onion Bhajis very small over cooked , tarka dhall oil floating on top and again not nice taste , onion salad well just chopped onion no coriander just white onion.maybe a new chief is needed.

Popped in for a piece of cake. Got some carrot cake and Victoria sandwich. Both cakes were very tasty and moist. Nice staff slightly expensive for one slice so I’m not giving 5 stars.

Brilliant place Baby shower for my Daughter-in-law Afternoon tea, food was amazing service fabulous and the room was set out beautifully. Nothing was too much trouble Thanks for making it a wonderful afternoon Tommy xx

Our daughter got married here on the 1st of August what a beautiful beautiful wedding venue we were so lucky with the weather everything was perfect. The food was amazing and Mark was absolutely brilliant throughout the whole wedding planning process and on the day. Thank you thank you it was amazing!

A regular stop off whenever we’re in Selby. The food is fantastic whether it’s a quick snack, full on Sunday lunch or special occasion. Mat, Gemma, Di, Chaba & all the staff are polite, respectful and… efficient. An enjoyable experience. Can’t recommend highly enough.

Lovely bloke. Lovely dog Simply the best flapjack I have ever eaten and I’ve eaten a lot of cake! The coffees great too. Thank you very much

Comida increíble , tremenda relación calidad-precio, No era la primera vez que llamamos , ahora es un lugar habitual de buena comida y muy buena compañía , me enorgullece recomendarlo ,

Very friendly and lovely ice-cream and drinks. We had coffee and hot chocolate and all were really nice. Lots of choice and the kids loved it! Couldn’t recommend it enough.

Been coming here since I was a child, its My favourite place for a cake and I normally buy half a dozen rolls too ,which taste good and fresh . Staff are always friendly ,my Mum worked here once too many years ago . Love this bakery