Willerby Restaurant Guide

2022 Review: “Amazing breakfast” and “great coffee” keep the regulars coming back to this all-day café “with gorgeous views of Hull Marina”. “The chairs are a bit on the wonky side, but that definitely adds some quirky charm”. Top tip: “the chorizo ragu with fried eggs”.

2023 Review: “Good food overlooking the marina” is reported in all accounts of this swish contemporary Indian. Even someone who feels its expensive-looking styling is “all a bit too grand for its own good” says “the food is well cooked and comes in generous portions”.

Set on the site of the medieval Dunswell Forge – and featuring a maze-like interior packed with thrifted curios – Hull’s first vegetarian restaurant has been marching to the beat of its own drum for over 25 years. Highly unusually, the “unique” concept it espouses means that the “menu is set by the first booker for that day”, meaning that you might turn up to find a spread of “great” Cajun dishes, but it could equally well be Mexican or Japanese. Another oddity: the starters are ferried to the table, whereas mains are served as an all-you-can-eat buffet.

With an “amazing restaurant” upstairs for “outstanding” small and large plates, and “an equally incredible bakery downstairs” for brunch, this collab between chef Ryan Telford, manager Ian Pexton, and baker Caitlin Ogden, ex-of The Ritz, is “well worth two visits” to this location near Hull Minster to fully sample its charms. “It is hard for cafés and restaurants to survive in our area, but this spot is making a good go of being both”.

Can ‘glamourous’ and ‘Hull’ exist in the same sentence? Perhaps so, with this Winter 2024 launch of a 200-seat rooftop cocktail lounge and meat-lovers haunt in a glass-and-steel rooftop add-on to a previously vacant 1930s building. At the heart of the menu – a variety of 32-day dry-aged steaks – served alongside a selection of burgers and non-meat options.