Author Jill Turton

Richard Johns has returned with a new restaurant Rascills near York. About time too, says Jill Turton, as he has been missed.

Skosh is the latest addition to York’s Micklegate and while the plates might be small it clearly has big ambitions says Jill Turton

There’s a new head chef at the Box Tree, Ilkley. Jill Turton finds out how he’s faring

The cat’s pyjamas? Headingley’s newest Indian restaurant certainly is says Jill Turton.

When Polpo first opened in Soho in 2009 it was love at first bite. The reviewers swooned, the media crowd queued round the Beak Street block, the awards soon followed. Deservedly. It was different, great value...

The news of any sort of redevelopment at Whitelock’s, Leeds is enough to send a shudder down any spine. After all we’re talking about Leeds’s oldest and best-loved pub, wedged in the burrow of Turk’s...

There’s nothing else like it in agriculture – the low wooden forcing sheds of Yorkshire’s rhubarb producers are quiet, warm and dark. As far as the eye can see, there are slender pink stalks topped with...

Pintura promises a warm Spanish welcome, which is exactly what Jill Turton needed when another restaurant gave her the cold shoulder.

After 10 years and a major restoration, Jill Turton revisits the restaurant at the Royal York Hotel.

Turkish food often gets a bad press here. Think of the fat and salt and calorie load of doner kebab, indeterminate meat sliced from a rotisserie and shoved into a pitta, that favourite of the boozed-up...