Middleton Lodge Hotel

North Yorkshire

With the Yorkshire Dales to the west, the Moors, east, and the Pennines to the north, it’s little wonder this award-winning Georgian country manor takes its culinary cues from nature. Centred on the flagship Coach House and Forge restaurants, the family home of James and Becky Allison sprawls across 80ha of farmland, with 45 inviting rooms.

At the Coach House, chef Gareth Rayner’s menu features Yorkshire ingredients (many from the walled kitchen garden) packaged into Mediterranean-leaning mainstays: think chargrilled lamb with hispi cabbage, harvest salads du jour, and knockout Sunday roasts. The Forge, meanwhile – all beams and raw brick – is a more refined take on garden- to-plate dining: the likes of broccoli, artichoke and Parmigiano-Reggiano and chicken skin with edible flowers. It’s an easy-going atmosphere of modern hospitality sure to restore city dwellers’ weary souls with woodland walks, shooting, spa treatments and sublime suppers.

Doubles from £189. 0132 537 7977, middletonlodge.co.uk

Words by Blossom Green.

This review was taken from the October/November 2020 issue of Food and Travel.

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