Reviews

Corner Grill House

Pushing on for ten years ago I was lucky enough to be invited to a small bistro on the corner of Merchantgate to check out the food offering. Corner Grill House was doing good things at the time, with unpretentious dishes showing off superb produce and friendly service in an extremely intimate environment. I’ve stayed…

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Bettys Evening Service

York has many institutions to which many people, residents and visitors, are hugely loyal. People come from all over the world to see York Minster, wonder at the enormous coprolite in the Jorvik Centre, revel in nostalgia while looking at the exhibits in the National Railway Museum and many other things. One of these pastimes…

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Tiger Inn Coneythorpe

A village pub should be many things, all of which should embed it in the local community. Social hub, place of refuge, venue for community groups, destination for visitors, provider of employment and (most pertinently here) somewhere to eat and drink. The Tiger Inn Coneythorpe has had a turbulent few years – an extended closure…

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Black Wheat Club

It’s hard work opening a hospitality business at the best of times, let alone downstream of a global pandemic, Brexit, worrying levels of inflation and “global political uncertainty” (wasn’t sure how to best phrase that without profanity). Still though people persist, for which I’m enormously grateful as should the rest of York be as the…

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