The chef Shaun Hill has spent five decades behind the stoves. After finding fame feeding the diners of Ludlow (The Merchant House) and Devon – where he put Gidleigh Park on the gastronomic map – Shaun Hill reopened Franco Taruschio’s much-loved Walnut Tree in 2008, and quickly restored it to its former glory: though ‘glory’ may be too pompous an epithet for this whitewashed country inn on the B4521 near Abergavenny.
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.
Mark Hix will permanently close his Dorset pub The Fox Inn in July after only 18 months of trading.
Pub-goers in the Cotswolds have two more options for lunch, dinner or just a drink with the news that chef Tom Noest and manager Pete Creed have expanded their growing collection. The Sherborne Arms in Northleach, and The Fox Inn, Broadwell, bring the pair’s pub portfolio to five, joining the ......
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. ......
