Author Amanda Wragg

Can a burger joint be classy? Yes, says Amanda Wragg, if it’s in the capable hands of Eric Paxman

Amanda Wragg checks out the Hare & Hounds and is left impressed

Aux Delices was one of the many victims of the Boxing Day floods, but having reopened, Amanda Wragg finds it has more than weathered the storm.

How anyone knows it’s there is unclear – I followed the Arts Trail map (they sponsored an exhibition in the village) and found it up a side street. In the end I should just have followed the sound of...

The drive over Wadsworth moor from Hebden Bridge is always rewarding, regardless of the weather. It feels truly wild, the scarred hills tumbling over each other into the distance. As you round the final...

Nothing stays the same as my wise old dad would say. The Victorian, Halifax is such a place. Once an Italian restaurant, it’s a handsome building on the end of Powell Street opposite Somerset House. Owned...

In a previous life as a student in Leeds there was a well-trodden pub crawl which started at the Fenton, took in Whitelocks via the Pig & Whistle and ended, messily, at the Bier Keller. One place it never...

Then there was the small matter of making the beer to sell – hopefully to customers. Smith has previous; he ran the Black Horse Brewery in Luddendenfoot 20 years ago.Horbury has learned quickly and together...

It’s a fair drive from Todmorden to Aysgarth. Always rewarding of course, even on a filthy February day, particularly when you can swing by the Keelham Farm Shop in Skipton. Not sure how, but I...

Dennis Peacock and Amelia Johnson ran Masons in York and lived the good life in their favourite city. One day Dennis drove past an empty, desolate Dales pub and bought it. Then told Amelia. It’s perhaps best...