Author Dave Lee

Very much a pub of two halves, the Travellers Rest sits on the marvellously-named Crimple Lane, right on the edge of the showground in Harrogate.

Hull’s latest vegan restaurant The Purple Robot is just a bit too ‘meaty’ for Dave Lee.

Somewhat confusingly, a different pub in Beverley used to be called the Tiger

If you’re a good enough restaurant then the punters will come and, writes Dave Lee, J Johnsons is one of Hull’s best.

To steal a line from Brian Clough, the Punch might not be the best-looking pub in Hull, but it’s in the top one.

Newly opened Home is billed as somewhere to hang out where you can also get food and drink. Dave Lee has already made himself part of the furniture.

It was a country pub needing an injection of love. It got one thanks to Ian and Zoe Burdass. Dave Lee celebrates the reinvention of the St Quintin Arms.

The rapid increase in new-build housing in Brough over the past decade or so has left the town lacking in drinking dens and so the recent appearance of micropub the Centurion Arms has proven a much-needed fillip for local sensation seekers.

Chamas in Beverley is not only a meat feast, but it’s also doing its bit to revive the salad bar, says Dave Lee.

Run by Russell and Sarah Jeffrey for the last 20-odd years, the Wellington is the sort of solid, stable, well-drilled foodie pub that you more usually find in the Dales or North York Moors.