Cross Butts Stable Restaurant with Courtyard Rooms - fine dining and accommodation in Whitby, North Yorkshire.

ALONE to Whitby, on what once would have been the milk train. "Not even the Queen gets a train to herself," says the guard from Middlesbrough, cheerfully, though the school run gathers pace as we head down the Esk Valley.... (click for more)

The Northern Echo, Eating Owt By Mike Amos, Lunch among abstracts

A reader tells me about "a gem" near Whitby. "Cross Butts Stable & Hotel Restaurant was once a working farm," she says, "but after foot and mouth left the place 'cow-less', the owners decided to turn it into a hotel." The story is on its website..... (click for more)

Paddy Burt, Daily Telegraph

WHEN John Morley switched from milking udders to taking orders in his new farmyard restaurant he decided the new business would be open until the cows came home...... (click for more)

Success on the menu for farmer
By Mark Branagan