Hardens Guide to the Best Restaurants in Knaresborough
Hardens guides have spent 34 years compiling reviews of the best Knaresborough restaurants. On Hardens.com you'll find details and reviews of 56 restaurants in Knaresborough and our unique survey based approach to rating and reviewing Knaresborough restaurants gives you the best insight into the top restaurants in every area and of every type of cuisine.
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1. Fleur Restaurant and bar
restaurant in Leeds city centre
Inside the lights - LS1
Award-winning Master Chef Finalist, Great British Menu-famed chef Bobby Geetha and Team provides a stunning contemporary British cuisine inspired by world flavours.Fléur Restaurant was the finalist for best Brunch in Leeds. Reviewed as Top 3 best Bottomless...
2. Sukhothai
Thai restaurant in Harrogate
17-19 Cheltenham Pde - HG1
“Thai cooking of the same standard as the country’s best”, all served in a “busy and friendly” environment wins consistently all-round praise for this popular outpost of Ben Kaewkraikhot’s small Yorkshire group (which started in Chapel Allerton in 2002).
3. The Alice Hawthorn
British, Modern restaurant in Nun Monkton
The Green - YO26
“A great pub with rooms in a lovely village just outside York” which makes “a good meeting place in a village just off the A1” and whose contemporary style is very pleasing and slick (“dare one say it, very unlike the North of England....” says a Bradford-based diner). Service is “professional yet friendly” and “the varied menu remains consistent making it always a pleasure to go there”.
4. Tattu
Chinese restaurant in Leeds
29 East Parade, Minerva House - LS1
With its dramatic, Insta-friendly looks, it would be easy to dismiss this supremely glossy venue – part of a group originating in Manchester – as ‘just another pretty face’. Its mashup of Chinese and Japanese cuisine is respectably rated, however, and it’s also highlighted as “a great place for brunch”.
5. Aagrah
Indian restaurant in Leeds
St Peter’s Sq - LS9
2024 Review: “They always go the extra mile” according to fans of this city-centre outpost of Yorkshire’s nine-strong chain of well-regarded curry houses – a family-run business established in 1977.
6. General Tarleton
British, Modern restaurant in Ferrensby
Boroughbridge Rd - HG5
This comfortable gastropub with rooms is well-known to some who travel the northerly reaches of the A1 (off which it is to be found) and was in days long gone by a sibling to the Angel at Hetton. After an up-and-down performance in recent years, it’s now been relaunched since August 2025 as part of Tommy Banks’s expanding northern empire and provides superior pub classics and more ambitious fare at restaurant-level prices. Reports please!
8. The Lime Tree Inn
British, Modern restaurant in Great Ouseburn
Branton Lane - YO26
A brand new country Inn, opened its doors for the first time in September 2020.The Lime Tree Inn is a family run country Inn made of seriously good food in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.Our menu is seasonal with everything made in house from quali...
9. Sukhothai
Thai restaurant in Leeds
15 South Parade - LS1
“For a consistently great night out” fans still tip the flagship city-centre branch of Ban Kaewkraikhot’s local Thai group, which started in Chapel Allerton and which also has a branch in Harrogate. It’s a lavishly furnished two-floor venue with a huge, 200+ item menu.
10. The Tannin Level
British, Traditional restaurant in Harrogate
5 Raglan St - HG1
“Very enjoyable tasty food and friendly service” underpin a formula that’s won enduring success for this stalwart cellar in the lower ground floor of a solid Victorian mansion which celebrates its 40th year in 2025. The traditional-ish cuisine aims for ‘Yorkshire on a plate’ and the sensibly priced and focused menu covers all bases, including a selection of steaks.
11. Sukhothai
Thai restaurant in Leeds
8 Regent St - LS7
2022 Review: Feedback remains limited but remains very positive for this Chapel Allerton Thai (part of a local group), which hits twenty years old in 2022.
12. The Old Deanery
British, Modern restaurant in Ripon
Minster Rd - HG4
“Just fabulous on every level” hail fans – particularly of the cuisine at this restaurant with rooms in a Jacobean mansion facing Ripon Cathedral. “Chef Adam Jackson never fails to impress” with his “exceptional tasting menu” – eight courses for £95 per person in the evening – which enables you to discover the building, with different parts of the meal served in different places. (There are other options for lunch and afternoon tea). Top Menu Tip – “sea bass with a very delicate jalapeno sauce that just elevated the dish… and the drink paired with it was a sparkling Japanese sake....amazing”.
13. Clocktower Restaurant, Rudding Park Hotel
British, Modern restaurant in Harrogate
Rudding Pk, Follifoot - HG3
2024 Review: Attached to a luxurious spa hotel, this modern brasserie is open all day (with other options in the hotel being the more ambitious Horto, or afternoon tea in the Conservatory). One fan notes it as a good place for a relaxed business meal, but there is also the odd concern that its “good ambience can be let down by average results at excessive prices”.
14. Horto Restaurant at Rudding Park
British, Modern restaurant in Follifoot
2022 Review: This “lovely hotel” is so proud of its own produce that it named its main restaurant Horto, Latin for kitchen garden, and charged young head chef Callum Bowmer (who arrived for two weeks’ work experience in 2010 and never left) with the task of creating showcase menus from it. The resulting meals are “really enjoyable”.
15. Baltzersens
Scandinavian restaurant in Harrogate
2023 Review: This “quirky café with wonderful cinnamon buns and waffles” offers a “real taste of Scandinavia in Harrogate”. It’s “very popular with yummy-mummies in the morning so can get a little loud, but you can buy all the baked goods from their shop just by the theatre”. Owner Paul Rawlinson’s Scandi restaurant Norse is still missed, five years after its closure.
16. Sasso
Italian restaurant in Harrogate
8-10 Princes Square - HG1
“A local establishment offering consistent Italian dining” – this family-owned fixture has survived the passing of chef-patron Stefano Lancelloti, who died suddenly in 2023, shortly after celebrating the 25th anniversary of the restaurant he named after his hometown in Emilia Romagna. His son Nico is now part of the kitchen team looking after his legacy. Top Tip – “great for celebrations”.
17. Brio
restaurant in Harrogate
40 Kings Rd - HG1
“A real Harrogate stalwart, with excellent Italian cooking” – this town-centre venture has won a decent local reputation over four decades – “kids are kept happy with pizzas and home-made ice-cream”, while the menu covers the classics from stuzzichini and antipasti to pasta and secondi piatti, and there’s a “mainly Italian” wine list that explores the regions.
18. Bettys
Afternoon tea restaurant in Harrogate
1 Parliament Street - HG1
“A Yorkshire institution” that’s “not to be missed!” – These famous tea rooms owe their existence to Swiss founder Frederick Belmont, who opened them in 1919 and his family now also operate at four other locations across North Yorkshire. “A great, old school and classic experience” – they are “everyone’s favourite” and afternoon tea is “a real occasion” that’s “well worth queuing for”. Top Menu Tips – “scrumptious fat rascals” (a kind of Yorkshire scone).
19. Royal Baths
Chinese restaurant in Harrogate
Central Hall, Crescent Rd - HG1
The owners of this Cantonese spent an eye-watering £1.5m on its conversion and, while “the food is almost incidental to the splendour of the surroundings” (a “Victorian spa – full of wonderful tiling and soaring arches”), nevertheless “it’s not bad”, being “a notch above standard Chinese fare”, with the added joy that “they have a number of large round tables, so all the diners can enjoy the fun of working the lazy Susan”.
20. Drum & Monkey
Fish & seafood restaurant in Harrogate
5 Montpellier Gdns - HG1
This veteran fish and seafood specialist has been a fixture of the Montpelier Quarter for 55 years – and has, remarkably, maintained its standards and independence, most recently under the Carter family, the owners since 2013. “The food is always very good and often excellent” by all accounts.
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