Author Amanda Wragg

The Runswick Bay Hotel is worth the climb as Amanda Wragg discovers

Alan Bennett’s priceless 1988 documentary Dinner at Noon set in the Crown Hotel in Harrogate is, in Bennett’s words, about ‘types’. He eavesdrops on guests, sipping champagne in the Brontë Room,...

Leeds Brewery has added another pub to its portfolio and the Lamb & Flag in Leeds is a real winner says Amanda Wragg.

There’s no indication that we have to, but if we did, we should fight tooth and nail for the life of this extraordinary Leeds landmark pub. It’s 30 years since I set foot inside the place and I’m ashamed...

I don’t pretend to understand how modern gastronomy works; my experience of this kind of cooking is about the same as yours, i.e. watching Heston in his space specs brandishing a blowtorch, vacuum-sealing...

But it’s a handsome building and the views over the endless, golden beach and beyond the magnificent pier to the Teesside windfarms are pretty impressive, particularly on a stormy November day. You walk...

It’s not every Tuesday evening I’m treated to a tour round a personal art collection while Billie Holliday divas away in the background. But then it’s been some time since I’ve been to Brook’s in...

When is a restaurant not a restaurant? Here Amanda Wraggs tells you about Friends of Ham.

My destiny seems to be to visit only fish restaurants as far from the sea as it’s possible to be. Be that as it may, you won’t find me complaining. Catch is the latest opening in what feels like...

This American-style brewpub is impressive on a number of levels. First off, the vast copper vats at one end of the spacious, light ground-floor building and the snaking pipes carrying the newly-brewed beer to...