One of Harrogate most famous names, Graveleys, is to make a comeback tomorrow.
The fish and chip restaurant and takeaway was a feature of Cheltenham Parade for decades until it was sold in 2019.
New owners Catch Seafood spent £250,000 refurbishing the property and introduced a champagne and oyster bar as well as cocktails.
But all five Catch restaurants ceased trading last year when the company went into administration, paving the way for Simon Pilkington, the son of former Graveleys owner Robert, to buy back the building.
The takeaway will reopen tomorrow at 11am.
The takeaway will open at 11am tomorrow and the restaurant is due to open in the next few weeks. A final date has not been confirmed.
Sarah Knox, manager of Graveleys, said the venue would be going “back to basics”, adding:
“The focus will be on fish and chips. We just want to get back to basics and serve quality products.
“We will listen to what customers tell us and adjust our menu accordingly. Come in and see us!”
Ms Knox, who has worked all her life in hospitality and was previously employed by Catch, said the new venture had come about quickly and she had spent the last week preparing for the reopening. New staff are wanted.
The takeaway will be open from 11am to 2.30pm and 4.30pm to 8pm from Tuesday to Saturday. It will be closed on Sundays and Mondays.
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Harrogate Restaurant Week: keep your tummy and bank balance happy
On Monday 5 February, Harrogate Restaurant Week will begin. Restaurants in and around Harrogate are taking part in a promotional week, serving up some tasty discounts and helping us enjoy the luxury of dining out for less.
Restaurant Week is running from Monday 6 – Friday 10 February.
To help you save your pennies, we have curated a list of six participating restaurants and their Restaurant Week offers.
The Fat Badger
The Fat Badger is offering a homemade pie with a pint of bitter for just £10 during the promotional week.
Customers can enjoy a hearty steak, mushroom and ale pie, washed down with Tetley’s Best.
For more information on the restaurant, visit here.
The West Park Hotel
The West Park Hotel is offering two courses for £15, or three courses for £20 during Restaurant Week.
Customers can choose their courses from the new Restaurant Week menu.
Click to find more information on The West Park Hotel.
The West Park Hotel will have a specific Restaurant Week menu.
Cosy Club
Cosy Club is offering customers a main and dessert for £15.
The Restaurant Week menu includes buttermilk fried chicken with fries, coleslaw and smoked red pepper aioli, along with a vegan baked vanilla cheesecake with raspberries.
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William & Victoria
William & Victoria will also be partaking in Restaurant Week, offering customers two courses for £15, or three courses for £20.
Customers can expect to see dishes such as honey glazed goats cheese, fresh Moules Marinière and affogato on the promotional menu.
The menu will be available during both lunch service from 12pm – 2.30pm, and dinner service from 5pm – 9m.
Rudding Park Hotel
Rudding Park Hotel’s Clocktower Brasserie is offering two courses and a glass of Prosecco for £20 during Restaurant Week.
The offer will be available from 12pm – 5pm during the promotional week.
Customers can choose their courses from the Restaurant Week menu.
For more information, click here.
The Clocktower Brasserie will be participating in Restaurant Week.
The Inn, South Stainley
The Inn, South Stainley between Harrogate and Ripon is also offering a starter and main course for £20.
The offer is available during lunch and dinner services.
The Restaurant Week menu includes a homemade soup and giant Yorkshire puddings.
New Masham restaurant wins Michelin Guide accoladeA restaurant in Masham that opened last year has been included in the Michelin Guide‘s list of favourite new restaurants.
Where there’s Smoke is based on the Silver Street site formerly occupied by Vennell’s for 17 years.
Owned by Jon Atashroo and his wife Arlette, it cooks locally sourced produce over coals and embers.
Mr Atashroo began his career training at the Michelin-starred Aubergine restaurant in Chelsea and was head chef at the fine dining restaurant at London’s Tate Modern before moving to Masham to buy the couple’s first restaurant.
Michelin Guide inspectors were so impressed by what the couple and restaurant manager John Goodyear have created they included Where there’s Smoke in a list of 24 favourite new UK restaurants following anonymous visits.
The organisation said:
“Cooking over coals is the USP here – hence the name – and the lovely aroma will hit you the moment you enter this good-looking restaurant.
“It sits in a delightful market town, and the seasonal set menu is comforting, easy to enjoy and comes from an honest heart.
“The chef-owner is also a potter, so take time to admire his creations; oh, and the bespoke wooden table-tops, he made those too.”
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Mr Atashroo told the Stray Ferret:
“It’s great to be put on the map. It’s really exciting for us.
“We are only a tiny restaurant with 16 seats and a small team.”
He said buying his own restaurant had fulfilled a lifelong dream and Masham had proved to be a great location after living in London for 37 years. He added:
“We got the same accolade at the Tate but this feels more special because we have built this restaurant up from the ground.”
The 24 additions to the Michelin Guide precede the naming of the new venues to receive Michelin Stars, Bib Gourmands and Green Stars in March.
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Rubin’s is based in a large unit that used to be a bathroom shop on Cheltenham Parade. It is next door to the former Catch seafood restaurant.
The venue opens at 10am for all-day breakfasts and then serves lunch at noon and evening meals from 5pm to 9pm. It also offers afternoon teas and has its own pastry chef making all the sweet treats.
Named after one of the business partners’ sons, Rubin’s can seat up to 98 customers.
Rubin’s is situated on Cheltenham Parade.
The restaurant, which opened last week, is expecting new signs next week and currently does not have an alcohol licence. Customers can bring their own alcohol until a licence is approved and there is no corkage charge.
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Manager David Rogers said:
“We make everything fresh and have created a nice atmosphere. It’s a big, comfortable place and we look forward to welcoming customers.”
The evening menu includes burgers, pasta, Neapolitan sourdough pizzas and Turkish pide. Vegetarian options are available.
The extensive range of pastries and ice-creams.
This story has been sponsored by the Provenance Collection.
A former Masterchef contestant has been appointed as the new head chef at the Coach & Horses in Harrogate.
Formerly executive chef at Harewood Estate and a semi-finalist of the 2016 MasterChef: The Professionals, Josh Whitehead will head up the kitchen at the pub on the corner of West Park and Tower Street.
His new menu will see seasonal produce sourced from the Provenance’s own kitchen garden, or from carefully selected partners across the region.
Pizza butter chicken kieve with polenta fries and dressed leaves. Photo: Claire McClean Photography
Josh, who will work alongside his best friend, Andy Castle, who was head chef at the Ox Club in Leeds, said:
“I am really excited about the Coach & Horses, with a great place in the history of Harrogate and a promising future, myself and Andy look forward to cooking up delicious British classics using the best possible produce with love and respect.
“Our aim to is cook dishes that are comforting and familiar whilst drawing inspiration from British pubs, exceptional ingredients and classic cookery, with a typical Josh and Andy flair.”
Starting his career washing pots in nearby Wetherby, Josh quickly shifted to front of house at Restaurant Bar & Grill, Harrogate, where he helped the head chef to prep shifts in the kitchen. Biding his time, he was promoted to commis, his first paid chef role.
Croissant and marmalade bread and butter pudding. Photo: Claire McClean Photography
However, it was during his training at Thomas Danby college, Leeds, he got a taste for working with fine dining restaurant Anthony’s.
Many subsequent roles, including Harvey Nichols, The Tetley, Northern Bloc Ice Cream and then the opening of House of Koko, all helped to prepare him for his role.
It was during this time that he also met his best friend, sous chef Andy, while working at the Ox Club.
While working as executive chef at The Harewood Food & Drink Project, he learnt about various aspects of livestock, wild game, vegetables and foraging.
To try the new menu, book a table at the Coach and Horses by calling 01423 789777 or visit www.coachandhorsesharrogate.com.
Sneak Peek: Starling shows off new spacious bar after major renovationHarrogate’s Starling Independent Bar Cafe and Kitchen has been showing off it’s impressive new space this week following a major renovation.
The restaurant and bar on Oxford Street serves craft beer, hot drinks and pizza, as well as a brunch menu.
The venue, which launched in 2017, now boasts a ground floor three times the size after expanding into the former TSB bank next door.
The refurbishment, which was completed in just three weeks, offers a more fully accessible space and a more vibrant bar atmosphere.
Dan Howard, general manager, said:
“The main idea was we didn’t want to reinvent the wheel. We didn’t consider the concept broken. We just wanted to expand on what we were offering already.
“We offer a great service and a great selection of products that people already liked. We definitely didn’t want to break that.
“We wanted to make sure people who come to Starling already would enjoy what we have done with it and that it would attract a new crowd as well.
“During a testing time in hospitality, we’ve managed to push through with the refurb and now it’s onwards and upwards.”
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Mr Howard said the increased capacity would also allow the upstairs area to be used more.
He said:
“We are looking at putting football on up there. We already get quite a lot of bookings for functions and we now have the space available to allow those to happen more frequently.”
Starling, which is owned by Simon Midgley, will still offer full table service during the day. This will continue upstairs, however from 3pm the new downstairs area will operate as bar service only.
Mr Howard said:
“We are hoping that will just create a bit more of a social environment. It will just create a bit more of a bar vibe on an evening and really get the place buzzing. We will still be offering the same great service we always have done.
“We have got much more of a presence on the street now and when you look in you can see what we’ve got to offer.”
Starling is also well known for its charity quiz nights, with ‘Dan’s Questionable Quiz’, returning this Sunday.
The quiz raises money for the Harrogate Hospital and Community Charity and will now be held in the downstairs bar area.
Sneak peek: New Harrogate grill and bar opens this weekendA new restaurant is opening in Harrogate this weekend with a special set list of musicians and DJs to entertain diners.
HG1 Grill and World Bar opens its doors for the first time at 4pm tomorrow. To celebrate the launch, the venue will be offering 50% off food until Sunday, November 27 which has been extended to thank its diners.
There will be limited spaces available as the restaurant looks to improve with feedback from customers during its initial, soft launch.
The 80-seat independent restaurant with a cocktail bar and terrace replaces the building formerly occupied by Samsons and Le Bistrot Pierre on Cheltenham Crescent.
Jas Gill, the owner, told the Stray Ferret:
“People are going to have a great time here. We’ve got a great team here, who are all passionate about food and are fully on board with our vision.”
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Jerome Lacheure, general manager, said:
“Everything is on track, I am really looking forward to it. Very excited, very nervous. A mixture of emotion. We’ve put a lot of work into the place during the last few busy weeks.
“It’s not just about the food or drink. We are here to provide a full evening for our customers and the music offering is going to form a big part of that.”
The menu will change with the seasons. Currently there is a range of dishes on offer from grilled whole fish to beef tataki, burgers and a vegetarian choices like ginger and chilli tofu stir-fry.
The drinks list will also be ever-adapting, focusing on new trends from across the world. There will also be plenty of the classics and local tipples to enjoy too.
Bookings are now open and can be made by clicking or tapping here.
Pic shows: Staff outside the venue, including head chef (centre right) Javier Oitana, general manager (first in from the right) Jerome Lacheure and bar manager (right) Joe Oliver.
New Harrogate restaurant offering live music to replace SamsonsA new restaurant offering live music is set to open in the Harrogate building formerly occupied by Samsons.
Samsons opened in the former home of Le Bistrot Pierre in Town Centre House on Cheltenham Crescent in March.
But it proved a short-lived venture, closing just months later.
Now signs advertising HG1 Grill and World Bar have gone up on the building.
The Stray Ferret understands the spacious restaurant will offer a seasonal menu featuring Mediterranean cuisine and seafood.
There will also be live music and a cocktail bar.
An opening date has yet to be announced but it is expected to be within days or weeks rather than months
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Catch Seafood, which bought the former Graveley’s fish and chip restaurant in Harrogate, has closed.
A spokesman for the company confirmed today all five Catch restaurants had ceased trading and the company had gone into administration, with the loss of 60 jobs.
It is the third major blow for Harrogate’s hospitality sector in a matter of days, with Samsons restaurant and restaurant and cocktail bar 63rd+1st also closing.
Catch bought Graveley’s in 2019 and reopened the restaurant on Cheltenham Parade in April last year after a £250,000 refurbishment.
Changing such a well known name was controversial.
Many people made a beeline for Graveley’s on trips to Harrogate, with former chat show host Michael Parkinson once describing his perfect day as watching Joe Root score a century in an Ashes Test at Headingley followed by a big plate of fish and chips at Graveley’s.
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A Catch spokeswoman said at the time the restaurant reopened.
“Graveley’s is an institution in Harrogate so we appreciate it is going to be a big thing to change the name.”
The new venue boasted a champagne and oyster bat as well as cocktails. But 18 months on it has served its last customer.
Catch also had fish and chip restaurants in Holmfirth, West Vale, Headingley and Street Lane.
The spokesman for the company said today he had been advised not to comment until the liquidation process was underway.
New owners prepare to open cafe at Millstones on A59 near Harrogate
A landmark restaurant on a major road near Harrogate will reopen under new ownership this autumn.
The former Millstones restaurant on the A59 near Kettlesing has been bought by Mark and Teresa Trickett, who have already begun work on the site.
As well as renovating the accommodation to create a family home, they are transforming the restaurant into a large cafe, with new kitchen, toilets and more.
It will be known as the Outside Inn, but the site will continue to be known as Millstones in recognition of its history.
Mark said:
“It’s a behemoth of a coffee shop. Most days we’ve been working until two in the morning for the last six weeks.
“What we’re doing to it reflects our personality: it’s not on trend, it’s just us – an eclectic mix that we like.
“I’m hoping when we open the doors people will say they like it and they will come back for another cup of tea.”
The couple have run a motorhome business for the last few years. However, they were looking for a new site after struggling to get the right permissions to operate the business from their home, just half a mile from Millstones.
Mark approached the former owner of Millstones, which was on the market, and the sale completed in July. The couple got straight to work with their plans for the site.
Aiming to be as sustainable as possible, they are re-using as many of the fittings as possible, such as repurposing skirting boards to create a counter in the ladies’ toilets.
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Millstones was well-known over many years for catering for large groups, from local organisations to coach trips passing by on the A59.
More recently, it had begun offering fish and chips, and had added a farm shop. However, Mark and Teresa plan to simplify what the venue offers and ensure it is good value, with Teresa drawing on her previous experience in the catering industry.
The couple said they hope to open the doors in the next few weeks. They have a clear vision of what they want the business to offer, as Mark explained:
“We’ll have a bit of retail but not a farm shop with veg and a butcher. If you’re trying to integrate into a community, you don’t want to tread on toes, and there are three or four farm shops around here already.
“The one thing Millstones did excel at was the Sunday carvery. We’re trying to reignite that for this side of Harrogate.
“We’re very nervous, because of the way things are going with the economy, but we’re excited because we feel we’ve got something where people would genuinely want to come.
“It’s my wife’s baby. She wanted somewhere that people could come and have value. If people can come here and have tea and cake for £5, £6, £7, and it’s good, they can walk out of here thinking, ‘that wasn’t half bad’.”