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

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.

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!

Second visit and it didn’t disappoint. The menu was interesting, the food beautifully presented and delicious, the service relaxed, friendly, warm and attentive. The location is stunning and the grounds perfect for a post lunch stroll. Here’s the icing on the cake… having not double checked he’d be ok in the restaurant (remiss of us, I know…) we arrived with our dog in tow… the front desk team were amazing! Bruno was whisked away and babysat in the office - phew, and talk about above and beyond. The team at Swinton are the friendliest, most can do and authentically warm I think I’ve ever come across. P.s. perhaps for those planning a visit perhaps don’t plan on your pooch being looked after unless you’ve checked before - don’t want to start a trend…😱 A perfect Sunday lunch. Thank you all.

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.

I went to this pub with my little girl and partner and would not go back. Sat behind us was a table full of kids with no parents, they were so noisy, swearing and shouting. They had iPads and phones which they were playing games on/watching videos and the volume was turned up very loud. Presumably these kids were not customers they must’ve been children of the staff or owners. The food was also average. If you go out for some food the last thing you want is a table full of children with no parents just doing as they please. Really poor and would not recommended to anyone.

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