Drink

It was sensible to arrive early at the Martinez Wine extravaganza in Ilkley. With more than 200 wines available to taste I was keen to get round as many of them as possible. Clearly many others thought the...

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...

The Shibden Mill is over 300 years old and nestled in the West Yorkshire valleys of Shibden. Offering high quality food & drink as well as five star accommodation, the 17th century inn is set in an idyllic...

The fingerprints of The Beautiful South are currently all over the northern pub trade. Singer Paul Heaton owns a fabulous boozer called the King’s Arms in Salford, drummer Dave Stead has a finger in several...

The Keys (once The Cross Keys) has been a fixture of Hoyland life for a good few generations. But, like so many other pubs in Yorkshire, it fell upon hard times and for a while was boarded up and looked almost ready for demolition. But those days are now behind it and, re-vamped and re-named The Keys, it is mercifully once again open and doing rather well.

If you like artisan gin then you'll love the Spirit of Harrogate, as Catherine Scott discovers

At just 34 years old Stéphanie de Boüard-Rivoal is very young to be in charge of one of St. Emilion’s top estates, but they take inheritance seriously at Ch. Angélus. “I am the eighth generation of the...

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...

During the off-peak months there is much satisfaction to be had from sitting in the lounge at the  Old Scalby Mills, Scarborough and staring through the huge picture window which overlooks the whole of the...

The Pheasant Hotel, Harome The Star Inn gets all the glory, but the bar of the Pheasant across the road ticks every box for cosy: sofas, fires, cushions, piles of magazines and sausage and mash and...