Address: Lendal bridge
Average food price: £5
You wouldn’t want to mess with the staff at The Maltings. As I walk in I hold the door. “Thank you”, calls the barman to the person leaving. No response. “Thank you!” a little louder. Still nothing. “TOSSER”, the now irate barman hollers, to the amusement of the rest […]

Nick Ashby’s Mum’s Pasta Sauce
1 bag of spinach
1 tin of chopped tomatoes
2 medium onions
2 cloves of garlic
3 rashers of bacon
1/2 courgette
When we decided to try out this recipe, Will and I were still a bit the worse for wear from our restaurant review the previous night.
This pasta sauce with spinach and bacon, therefore, is commendably […]

Address: Petergate
Average food price: £12
In retrospect, the evening had gone wrong; mistakes had been made and lessons learnt. Before reviewing Café Concerto my fellow reviewer James and I had been sampling the fine Yorkshire ales at The Maltings pub (see review below). We had planned a ‘quick afternoon drink’, but it had turned into […]

Address: Micklegate
Average drink price: £3
I was, I think, desperate to be impressed by The Parish’s converted 14th century church. Imagine my disappointment then when, having been waved through by the supercilious bouncer, I was assaulted by thumping dance music so loud that I barely caught my boyfriend’s suggestion to get a drink. Moving in […]

Loch Fyne prides itself on serving freshly cooked fish dishes and ever since one of the restaurants opened on Walmgate I have been wanting to try it.