The best restaurants serving British food in Mashamshire Harrogate Yorkshire and The Humber

A lovely, clean and friendly place. Clearly doing a great job serving their community. Welcoming staff and tasty, fresh food. We had the homemade soup and cheese scone - the menu had plenty of choice. A great find - highly recommend!

The service from two youngish girls was excellent! Dare I say typical Yorkshire! Portikns are generous, represent good value and flavoursome too!

Just returned from a 2 night stay at The Bay Horse where we went to celebrate our 16th Wedding Anniversary. Little gem of a pub in Masham.. sadly the owners are retiring this month. Such a friendly welcoming greeting landlady was lovely took time to talk to us. Pub was lovely, wood burner going, so cosy. We paid for breakfast one morning which was lovely all freshly prepared. Room was small but adequate, very clean and tea & coffee making facilities in the room. Bed was a little too soft for our liking but it did not spoil our stay. Would definitely stay again if we return to Masham just hope new owners keep it as lovely as it is.

Very poor - especially given the price! - Sunday lunch in Samuel’s restaurant. Lovely surroundings but variable service (twice waiting ten minutes for basic condiments after food arrived for example ) and most of all the poor quality of the food was a huge disappointment. Most of it was barely warm, including soup, very bland tasteless chicken parfait, cool soggy vegetables and tasteless roast beef, cold Yorkshire pudding and same gravy for all meats. Cold plates. We asked for peas for someone who couldn’t eat the standard veg but they never appeared. I sent my main back and when it returned it was only a little better on temperature - strangely the carrots were piping hot - and the now burnt tough oily Yorkshire left such a bad taste in my mouth I was desperate to brush my teeth. Asked for a small glass of red and was served a medium one but didn’t realise till I saw the bill - £11! Small Prosecco £10 that’s some mark-up way over the norm. Lots of the food went uneaten because it was inedible - you’d think when a kitchen gets lots of food back it’d ring alarm bells and in an establishment like this a manager might come and investigate what was wrong. They took 10% off the bill but really that was inadequate compensation for the very sub-standard offering. We didn’t really feel they were bothered. Then we accidentally miscalculated the bill split by £5.50 and they still chased that up - adding to the bad taste in the mouth. Worst £85 ( 2 courses after reduction) I’ve spent in a long time. I’ve had much better in a local pub at half the price.

We called in last week for a refresher after a riverside walk,we both had hot chocolate and i had fruit cake with wensleydale cheese and my wife had teacake everything was lovely and the service from Sharon was excellent.Today we called in for lunch,my wife ordered a cheese and onion panini and i had chicken curry.My wife really enjoyed her panini served with salad and coleslaw and the curry was served with rice,chips,mango chutney and a poppadom, both were very tasty,the curry was superb,chips and rice well cooked and the service was very good.A lot of locals use the tearoom which to me says all you need to know.

Choice of beer was limited and the pub itself felt a bit cramped. It was busy and quite a few people were eating what looked like nice food. If I return to Masham, will probably try the food here, but it would not be my choice for a beer due to lack of choice.

A very enjoyable couple of nights stay. The food & service was fantastic. Scott & staff were the perfect hosts. Room exceptionally clean & spacious. Many Thanks.

Gluten free review for the cafe: I visited the Druid’s Temple today and went to the cafe for lunch afterwards. Gluten free cakes and sandwiches were available. I had an ultimate hot chocolate and a trout and cream cheese sandwich (GF bread), and I’m sad to say that neither were very flavourful. The hot chocolate was weak and watery, and the sandwich was very dry. It’s a shame because the setting is so beautiful! A word to cross contamination, I have reacted to the food that I had, so I suspect that the chopping board used for my sandwich may not have been cleaned down before preparing my food (or similar). There was also a gluten free chocolate brownie which was in the same cabinet next to gluten containing cakes, with tongs that customers could use to select their own cakes, but no separate gluten free pair. If anyone from the cafe happens to read this, from coeliacs and gluten free people everywhere please could you make sure that cross contamination risk is limited through simple measures such as cleaning down a surface before making gluten free food (we don’t mind waiting a bit longer for piece of mind!), and that GF cakes and sweet treats are kept separate and using separate tongs etc? When we find places that don’t gluten us we share it heavily in the community!

We have being visiting this cafe for over 15 years and always enjoyed visisting with family. The team in the yellow uniforms were always friendly and the prices VERY resonable. We enjoyed Xmas luches here and have great memories playing crazy / mini golf. Visited today hoping to enyoy cake and a latte, but noticed new owners have taken over. Sadly not a patch on previous set up and sorry to say the wonerful home made baking was replaced with uninspiring offerings. Latte was the worsed i have had in many years, can only be described it as white coffee, the owner was unimpressed and rude with me asking for a replacement. Will not be returning.

Absolutely fabulous fish and chips, nothing better than in good weather to sit at the bench and tables outside in the square and watch the world go by