Tagged Amanda Wragg

A few tweaks and the food at the Alma will be as good as its views, says Amanda Wragg.

The Cook, as it’s known locally, sits solidly at the top of the vertiginous bank that drops down into the historic, quirky fishing village of Staithes; once it was the Station Hotel which serviced the Whitby, Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway. The trains ran over the now dismantled Staithes Viaduct.

Anyone visiting Hebden Bridge will, at some point, find themselves in St George’s Square. There are so many tempting retail possibilities you’ll need a sit down, and the Shoulder, or Bottom Shoulder, as local folk have it, is the perfect place to recharge your batteries.

Luke Downing has showed his considerable talents at Vice and Virtue, but Amanda Wragg finds something lacking at his new Italian venture.

The Hawthorn is Haworth’s newest eatery and, says Amanda Wragg, ‘Dear reader, relax there’s not a single reference to the Brontës’.

What do you get when three young, visionary types put their collective minds to injecting some zing into Halifax’s burgeoning drinking and music scene? The Alexandra Beer House and Lantern, that’s what.

Upstairs in a Bradford tennis club may be an odd location, but the good people behind the Hidden Kitchen have served an ace, says Amanda Wragg.

Amanda Wragg finds things are changing very much for the better in one corner of Calderdale when she visits Cage Thai Tapas

Closed following an arson attack, Amanda Wragg finds the Fleece in Addingham has definitely risen from the ashes

Gimbals is that rare thing – a restaurant that can do no wrong, says Amanda Wragg. Pictures by Scott Merrylees.