Walkington, British, Modern Restaurant Guide

Matt & (twin sister) Michele Barker rule over this stalwart British restaurant in the wing of a Georgian courthouse (with a glamorous cocktail bar upstairs, plus a heated, covered terrace). By unanimous verdict, it’s the “really good value set lunch” which is the highlight of the “wide-ranging” yet “sharp” British offering, whose focus is on meats ‘a la plancha’.

2022 Review: John Robinson’s restaurant-with-rooms again wins very consistent support, especially from local fans of its “amazing and fresh-tasting menus”: a four-course menu for £35, or a nine- course taster for £65. He took the opportunity of lockdown to give the place a significant refurb – new kitchen, new dining room, new garden…

2023 Review: This “very good fish restaurant backing on Beverley railway station” (it occupies the old waiting room) was opened by chef-owner Tina Cerutti in 1989; she still runs it with her brother Tony, who closed the Hull branch in 2019. With roots in southern Italy, the family have been a fixture of the Yorkshire dining scene for 65 years.