Musings on food and drink from the travelling foodies.
Posted in Beer, Hotels, North Yorkshire, Restaurant Pub/Hotel, gastro pubs on Mar 7th, 2010
Sunday lunch is always a good benchmark for trying out new dining experiences and today we discovered a new venue that we definitely want to return to.
Waking to clear blue bright skies inspired us to throw the walking boots in the car and head off for a brisk country walk. [...]
Posted in Beer, Breakfast, Hotels, Restaurant Pub/Hotel, gastro pubs on Mar 6th, 2010
First post of 2010 for Johnny or for this blog ‘first past the post’. We had an invite from John & Mo to join them on a visit to top race horse trainer Charlie Mann’s training stable in Lambourn, Berkshire. With an early start required we decided to travel down and stay overnight [...]
Posted in Beer, North Yorkshire, Restaurant Pub/Hotel, gastropubs on Jun 22nd, 2009
Saturday saw us travel up to darkest North Yorkshire with friends Jon and Sam for a long awaited and well overdue dinner date.
Jon had booked the restaurant and so it was a lovely surprise when we found out we were heading for Ye Olde Punch Bowl Inn - the pub co-owned by Neil Morrisey of [...]
Posted in Restaurant Pub/Hotel on May 31st, 2009
When Pat emailed round and suggested £15 pp bed and breakfast at the Shibden Mill Inn in return for having a 2 course dinner we were a little sceptical as it sounded too good to be true. On Pat and Tony’s recommendation we couldn’t turn this offer down.
The weather was super sunny so with the [...]
Posted in Restaurant Pub/Hotel on Feb 8th, 2009
Budget breakfast in Leeds at Anthonys superb. Gurdev at the wheel, so in Helmsley before we knew it. The Feversham Arms our hostelry for the night was welcoming and as expected without complication. Jacki our receptionist making us feel as if it was our second home. A quick sojourn to the Star at Harome Andrew [...]