Diners' Choice: British restaurants in Yorkshire

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Updated June 05, 2025

Looking for restaurants with the best overall British cuisine in Yorkshire? You’re in the right place. Each month OpenTable analyzes more than 400,000 new diner reviews. We sort the results by category to help you discover new favorites. It's a great partnership: you reserve, eat, and review. We listen...and deliver the results for all to benefit. Enjoy!

The Eskdale Castleton

4.9

4.9 (214)

£26 to £40

British

Scarborough

About the restaurant

The Eskdale is located in the heart of the majestic North York Moors National Park on the banks of the river Esk, a great northern trout and salmon river. Established in 1865 as The Station Hotel it has been in continues use as a public house since then.

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Elaine

Dined 3 days ago

Absolutely amazing pub Staff can’t do enough for you and are so friendly Food is 10/10 would highly recommend 😊

The Pepper Mill

4.8

4.8 (458)

£26 to £40

British

Bingley

About the restaurant

Bookings taken for dinner service only. Our Brunch/Lunch service is walk-ins only.*

Cosy and intimate casual fine dining restaurant, serving up superb local produce, fine wines, cocktails and delivering great service.

Based on Saltaire's bustling main road, it's at the heart of this World Heritage site.

Please note, due to the type of building, we are limited with disabled access. We can offer access on the main floor, but our toilet facilities are located on the first floor.

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Kate

Dined 4 days ago

Excellent food, great service, really dmjoyed our meal.

The Whitehall Restaurant & Bar

4.8

4.8 (1536)

£25 and under

British

Leeds

About the restaurant

The Whitehall Restaurant & Bar offers a modern British cuisine using classic ingredients to create simple yet imaginative dishes. We also offer daily specials which showcase our chefs passion and ensures the freshest quality produce.

The venue offers a spacious bar area in which you can enjoy a pre-dinner cocktail or after work drinks. Our wrap around terrace is perfect for alfresco dining in the summer months.

The nearest parking facilities are Citi Park on Whitehall Road. Alternatively, guests can benefit from a 10% discount at Q-Park Sovereign Square & Q-Park Albion Street when pre-booking your parking using the code WHITEHALL on their website: Q-Park Leeds - https://www.q-park.co.uk/en-gb/cities/leeds/.

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OpenTable Diner

Dined 2 days ago

The Food, Service and Ambience is always 10/10 at the Whitehall, with the friendliest staff. Sunday Dinner is the best in Leeds by far and now the outside is back open its great to be able to enjoy a drink in the sun. My Favourite place in Leeds👌🏽👌🏽

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Drake's Fisheries York

4.6

4.6 (210)

£25 and under

British

York

About the restaurant

Coming Soon!

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Tim

Dined on Jun 15, 2025

Fantastic food and service as usual. Many thanks!!

Hern

4.9

4.9 (51)

£41 and over

British

Leeds

About the restaurant

Hern is a relaxed but ambitious bistro from chef Rab Adams, located in the suburb of Chapel Allerton in North Leeds. Rab and his team build menus by focusing on products that are in season and at their best. Organic vegetables, local cheeses, heritage-breed meat and wild fish all feature heavily.

The restaurant is open:

Wednesday Dinner - a la carte menu
Thursday-Saturday Dinner - set menu*

*we serve both a short and long set menu, if booking between 5:30 and 6:30 you will only be offered the short menu due to turning tables. Guests with specific dietary restrictions will also only be offered the short menu.

Please note; we need all dietary and allergy information at the point of booking. Sample menus can be found on our website.

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Stuart

Dined on Jun 21, 2025

Lovely evening. Food and service were great. It was exceptionally hot the evening we went and the table didn’t have any air flow so we got extremely hot. A few more fans are definitely needed

Chef Jono V&V

4.7

4.7 (867)

£41 and over

British

Leeds

About the restaurant

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Emily

Dined on Jun 21, 2025

Absolutely wonderful evening at V&V, the food was exciting and delicious, drinks pairings were great and the wait staff and sommelier were really great and added a bit of banter to the night too. For ten courses we thought this was brilliant value and would love to come back to sample another menu!

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The Wensleydale Heifer

4.8

4.8 (715)

£26 to £40

British

West Witton

About the restaurant

Situated in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, The Wensleydale Heifer may be within easy reach of the A1 and M6 but it still feels totally rural. A traditional white-washed inn complete with leaded lights and swinging sign, The Wensleydale Heifer gives the visitor a real flavour of Britain meaning it’s popular not only with locals but with tourists searching for the real Yorkshire. From the lounge, with its comfortable leather settees, country pursuit paintings and imposing fireplace through to the wicker seating, beamed ceilings and eau de nil painted walls, the interior could have leapt from the pages of Country Homes magazine. The contemporary British menu includes seaood from across Britain plus locally sourced meat and veg, all prepared using the Wensleydale Heifer philosophy – keep it simple.

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Ashley

Dined 7 days ago

Excellent from start to finish. The staff are wonderful and make you feel so welcome and the food is out of this world

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The Inn on the Moor Hotel

4.9

4.9 (320)

£26 to £40

British

Whitby

About the restaurant

The Inn on the Moor is the friendliest of hotels nestled in the scenic village of Goathland. Often described as a hidden gem, The Inn on the Moor Hotel will greet you with the very warmest of welcomes the moment you step foot through the door.

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Ian

Dined 6 days ago

Great food and excellent service in this friendly hotel.

Queen's Head Inn

4.8

4.8 (263)

£25 and under

British

Harrogate

About the restaurant

The Queens Head at Kettlesing near Harrogate is a traditional Yorkshire Dales inn serving delicious home cooked food and well kept real ales.

We're a pub that serves great honest, great tasting food, done well!

With an enviable reputation for superb home cooked, traditional British food, the Queens Head is a popular venue lunchtimes and evenings.

Everything we do is home cooked by our dedicated kitchen team using quality local ingredients, wherever possible.

From sandwiches and light salads to hearty home made steak pie with Old Peculier, to our famous mixed grill (not for the feint hearted) and mouth watering desserts.

We're also well known for our succulent steaks. Tasty locally grown vegetables accompany our meals.

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Kamal

Dined on Jun 1, 2025

We had a fantastic Sunday Roast for three people. Delicious! Lovely staff.

Forde Horsforth

4.8

4.8 (709)

£26 to £40

British

Leeds

About the restaurant

Horsforth-born Matt Healy, known from MasterChef: The Professionals, has come home to Horsforth!

Matt’s ‘food to swear by’ brand has made a real impact on the Leeds dining scene, earning him a 2024 Michelin Plate for the 3rd consecutive year and a mention in The Good Food Guide. His focus on modern British cooking has won over both diners and critics alike.

MasterChef judge Marcus Wareing praised Matt’s sauces as “some of the best he had ever tasted,” while Jay Rayner’s Guardian review simply said, “Bloody hell, that’s good”—though not quite in those exact words.

With experience working alongside some of the best in the industry, Matt’s bringing together a talented team to deliver excellent food and service right here in Horsforth.

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Ian

Dined 3 days ago

Excellent ambiance, food and service. Highly recommend. Already looking forward to the next visit

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