Hardens Guide to the Best Restaurants in Snape
Hardens guides have spent 34 years compiling reviews of the best Snape restaurants. On Hardens.com you'll find details and reviews of 4 restaurants in Snape and our unique survey based approach to rating and reviewing Snape 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. Hansom Restaurant and Wine Bar
British, Modern restaurant in Bedale
7 - 9 North End - DL8
Darlington-born Ruth Hansom and her team have “the air of knowing exactly what they’re doing” at her new 16-seater in a picturesque North Yorks town, greeted by some early reporters as “the best restaurant in the area by miles” thanks to her “epic” cuisine. The Times’s Gilles Coren also waxed lyrical in his February 2025 review, with his ten-hour round trip to visit fully justified by a venue he described as “full of love and truth”. Overall the food rating in our annual diners’ poll sums to “very good” rather than “exceptional” though on reports of food that’s highly capable without quite discovering the “beauty and genius” discerned by Giles.
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!
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