From the striking stained glass window of Bibendum to a Stewart Swan piece jazzing up The Palmerston, art is a powerful vehicle of personality in a restaurant. We’ve lined up 31 great spots where you can enjoy art on the walls as well as the artistry on the plate.
The Good Food Guide has announced the ten regional winners in its prestigious Readers’ Restaurant of the Year Awards, and the winners are... OVERALL WINNER MIDLANDSCarters of MoseleyBirmingham REGIONAL WINNERS East of EnglandThe Ingham SwanIngham LondonCharlotte’s BistroChiswick North EastThe Spiced PearHolmfirth North WestLunyaLiverpool Northern IrelandJames Street SouthBelfast ScotlandThe Birch TreeDelny South ......
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His innovative, hyper-local style of cookery bought the Yorkshire chef fame at The Black Swan in Oldstead, a restaurant with rooms in a former pub. Now Tommy Banks has opened a proper pub, The Abbey Inn, just minutes down the road from the mothership, overlooking the ruins of Byland Abbey. ......
It must be the perfect country inn: an 18th-century former farmhouse of mellow stone, set in a beautiful, wooded valley, in the heart of the North York Moors National Park, four miles from Rievaulx Abbey and bang opposite the 12th century Cistercian, Byland Abbey. Jill Turton takes a first look at The Abbey Inn, Byland.
