100% Pub of the Week: The Cook Amanda Wragg February 27, 2018 Drink, Pub reviews 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.