The best restaurants serving British food in Ryedale Yorkshire and The Humber

Popped in for a quick pint saw they were making home made pizzas . Had a pizza and a pint combo along with a game of pool while I waited . Absolutely delicious. Was well worth been late home . So took one home for the wife too. . Happy days

A warm welcome from landlady Rachel at this traditional Farndale pub. Well kept ales on tap and a decent Rose wine slaked a thirst on arrival followed by a plump Sirloin Steak and trimmings and a plate of crispy scampi to keep us fed. Excellent value for money and all the traditions of top class inn-keeping can be found here in the glorious setting that is Farndale.

Had a lovely meal here on Saturday night. Menu had plenty of options. Food was well presented, very tasty, price point good. Staff were friendly and attentive. Nice atmosphere.

Never visited before. Not like most Costas. Needs a refit. They didn't have tea cakes etc will not rush back

Great location and atmosphere with singers on x lovely clean room with view over the square. Friendly accommodating bar staff will definitely be back

Birthday meal ruined - my partner booked us a weekend stay for my birthday and booked the restaurant for Friday and Saturday. After eating there Friday I realised unless I wanted the same meal for my birthday too, we needed to book somewhere else. Unfortunately due to short notice we could not book anywhere. My partner went to reception to ask if the chef could prepare a chicken dish for me as there was none on the menu and it was my birthday meal. The reception staff got back to my partner and said the chef would be delighted to prepare me a dish with a sauce, so far so good I thought. When ordering I made a point of telling the waitress the chef was preparing me a special chicken dish as it was my birthday. When the dish came it was the most bland meal I have ever had in a restaurant just a plain chicken breast, a few potatoes and broccoli, oh and a pot of red wine jus which I had the night before with beef. I am not a chef but know that red wine just does not go with white meat. There was no effort at all. I did not say anything at the time as my partner had gone to a lot of trouble arranging the weekend. When we got home I got in touch with customer services, after a while they did reply and I was put in touch with a manager who I spoke to, I was promised the chef would prepare my another meal if we went again and his excuse was that he was not told, even though when looking around the quiet restaurant there was only me having chicken as its not on the menu. I said it was too far to travel for us just for a meal, then I was promised bubbly in the room and discounted rates of £200 per night in April. We actually looked up the rates on the website for our dates and they were less than the "discounted rates" I was offered. When I queried this I have got no response to date, and it has been 5 weeks since. The customer service is almost non existant as I have had to chase this myself and then I get asked to send all my emails and who has promised us this deal as if I am lying. Well its just not worth the effort anymore and I do not want to come back, there are far better places to eat and stay with much better customer service!!

We had a very nice lunch with a friendly service from start to finish and good food. As another reviewer had commented, too many dogs, one in particular was very vociferous throughout our lunch. The owners were oblivious. We are dog lovers and have owned them in the past but we feel that everywhere you go to eat these days dogs are almost always allowed. The Courtyard Cafe has an outside seating area which ok isn’t great when it rains but please Castle Howard consider providing a dog free zone. Thank you.

My 'Hot Beef Sandwich ' consisted of a dried out roll, a few tasty onions+mushrooms, one very small piece of delicious looking beef and two dreadful slices of 'spotty' slices of beef from a supermarket packet which were 'hidden' under the unadvertised topping. Slight argument when I asked for a refund. Was told the beef had been kept warming on a hot plate but not for how long. My daughter had already had to return a packet of crisps with a best before date of 2023.

This is a very inviting pub but had originally gone for food as the reviews said, however we was told by the lady behind the bar that they Don’t serve food. So we had a drink then left, nice staff though.

Under new management but run by young lads who are confused. We arrived around 3:10pm on a Saturday. We went to order food and got told to sit down as it was table service. A lady wandered around tables chatting to friends. Gave up at 3:35. Went to front again. Told “sorry kitchen closes at 3:30”. Told them we had been waiting. Got a shoulder shrugged and smiled. Really disappointing.

just such a warm welcoming place we had cat fritters and fries some patron's just wont sit down and have some sort of weird obsession with mud you doo need to book tho