East Yorkshires moment in the foodie spotlight has been grasped by the relaunched Tickton Grange, though some of the hotels rooms still boast a wonderful bygone charm
Well, by eck. Things have been happening to East Yorkshire in the decades since I hightailed it out of there at 18 in search of bright lights. First there was David Hockney swapping glam west coast US for east coast UK, and his acclaimed paintings of what Id thought of as an unremarkable landscape being shown at the Royal Academy. Now the county is having a bit of a foodie moment, as people wake up to the coasts fantastic fish and seafood plus meat, cheese, beer and extra-virgin rapeseed oil from countryside that, if not always rolling, ripples prettily in places.
A pub I remember from long-ago family lunches, the Pipe and Glass in South Dalton, has only gone and got itself a Michelin star. The New Inn in Tickton, three miles from historic Beverley, is as down-to-earth a boozer as you could find Formica tables, good beer, carrot-growing competition but its blackboard lists hyper-local suppliers of beef, duck, herbs, award-winning cheese and smoked fish. Wot, no scampi?
Continue reading...