Hardens Guide to the Best Restaurants in Grewelthorpe
Hardens guides have spent 34 years compiling reviews of the best Grewelthorpe restaurants. On Hardens.com you'll find details and reviews of 6 restaurants in Grewelthorpe and our unique survey based approach to rating and reviewing Grewelthorpe restaurants gives you the best insight into the top restaurants in every area and of every type of cuisine.
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1. Samuel’s, Swinton Park Hotel & Spa
British, Modern restaurant in Masham
Swinton Park - HG4
“Don’t just dine… stay… walk the deer park before dinner, take a G&T on the lawn, dine… retire to the billiards room… go to the spa in the morning” – that say fans is how you get the most out of a trip to this “romantic” location: a large country house hotel whose flagship dining room and its ‘Estate to Plate ethos’ is looked after by chef Struan Macintyre. The dining room itself is “interesting and intimate" but it’s the “tasty cuisine that’s its point of difference”. Gone are the multi-course offerings of the past here: the menu now is in a luxe brasserie style, with mains such as Swinton Estate Venison, Line Caught Sea Bass or sharing options for two such as Côte de Boeuf or Lobster.
2. Bruce Arms
British, Modern restaurant in Ripon
Main St - HG4
This “pretty village gastropub in the Yorkshire Dales” has a “really lively buzz to it”, with “great food and service however busy it gets” – it’s a “firm family favourite” and fans reckon it serves “the best roast dinner in North Yorkshire” (with signature leeks mornay on the side).
3. Shaun Rankin at Grantley Hall
British, Modern restaurant in Grantley
“A very romantic setting in such a fabulous hotel” helps intoxicate diners at this magnificent destination in fine grounds – a 17th-century house, with additional modern buildings nearby and ‘all mod cons’ sensitively introduced into a fine period setting. Shaun Rankin has been chef here since 2019 and delivers a very contemporary 14-course menu for £180 per person. If it all sounds too good to be true, it’s not, all reports are positive. Even so, some do question the value: “super place, but expensive compared to other places of this standard”.
4. Chef’s Table by Josh Barnes, Swinton Park Hotel & Spa
restaurant in Masham
Swinton Park - HG4
North Yorkshire’s ever-expanding Swinton Estate, now has a counter-dining option in the shape of this open kitchen countertop ‘watch-and-dine’ location, set in the estate’s cookery school. Former Galvin brothers head chef Josh Barnes presents a weekly changing menu – a keen forager himself, many of his ingredients are grown on the estate, with the rest sourced from nearby producers. It opened in 2024 but has yet to inspire feedback in our annual diners’ poll – reports please!
5. Fletchers at Grantley Hall
British, Modern restaurant in Grantley
“Such a beautiful place” – a quintessential English country house hotel in the Dales with a pampering spa and a clutch of restaurants, of which this handsome dining room is one, and enlivened by tartan textiles; wood-panelled walls; and views out to the terrace and garden beyond. Reporters had nothing but praise for chef Craig Atchinson’s “wonderful” food – influenced by the region’s larder and focusing on unfussy classics plus meats cooked on the Josper grill.
6. EightyEight
Fusion restaurant in North Stainley
Ripon - HG4
This “wonderfully decorated restaurant” offering a pan-Asian menu is one of five dining options at 17th-century Grantley Hall, where it is set in a modern pavilion overlooking the Japanese garden. Slick service (“they happily adapted the tasting menu to cater for our preferences”) adds to the occasion. Andy Lynam succeeded high-profile head chef Samira Effa last summer; she left after three-and-a-half years to head up her own private dining business.
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