Off Topic Scarbados

Mrs A and myself are in Scarborough for the weekend. Anyone recommend a reasonably priced restaurant? Also any pubs you'd recommend?

 

For pubs The Merchant on Eastborough, which is the road that runs parallel to the sea, south of the Castle, and The Waterhouse, which if you follow that same road way from the castle to the main lights, is at the head of the street to your right (St Thomas Street).

The curry houses along from The Waterhouse are reasonable.

 

Mother Hubbard for fish n chips get the summer special and you get bread n butter pudding or a lemon posset
Excellent
There’s an really posh Italian if you’re treating the Mrs askew can’t remember it’s name off the top of my head
I’ll have a gooogle
I love Scarborough

 

Lanterna restaurant

 

The only restaurant that can class itself as nice in Scarborough is called The Farrier in Cayton. Everything else is pretty poor IMO

 

Hmm
A Yorkshire institution, La Lanterna Ristorante has stood on the same site in Queen Street for almost 40 years now. Chef-patron Giorgio Alessio bought it in 1997, and has worked tirelessly ever since to live up to the accolade given it by the influential Italian daily newspaper La Stampa – ‘the English temple of Italian cuisine’.


This is not a restaurant to visit if you’re after pizza. This is an altogether more refined form of Italian cucina, hailing from Giorgio’s native Piedmont in northern Italy, where the cooler climate and misty autumns call for comfort food of the highest order – game, risotto, pasta, hazelnuts, chocolate – and, of course, the Lanterna’s speciality, truffles.

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Giorgio mouthwateringly blends the deep, warm flavours of his youth with the freshness of the local produce that surrounds him in his adopted town – most notably, the fish. Each evening the Lanterna menu has a mind-boggling specials list of fish dishes – and every last piece guaranteed to be so fresh, you can still smell the sea.

What the reviewers say…

• "The sheer brilliance of Giorgio Alessio’s cooking and his fanaticism about using only the finest ingredients make La Lanterna the unlikeliest destination restaurant in the land."
  
  Matthew Norman : The Telegraph : May 2014
  
  
• "Alessio's spaghetti with a cream-bolstered sauce of velvet crabs is the sort of thing that has you sweeping about the bowl with the pad of your finger."
  
  Jay Rayner : The Observer : July 2011
  
  
• "...a great cook in thrall to great ingredients. It’s the soul of real Italian cookery."
  
  Tom Parker Bowles : Daily Mail :
  

 

A long walk from train station in Scarborough

 

I find the interior quite dated, plus find the menu heavy on seafood that I don't eat, but I also think it is expensive for Italian cuisine. It was only an opinion by the way - but The Farrier is far better

 

Is that the place that was on one of those hotel competition programs, hotel inspector, four in a bed?

 

You’ve messed up. Scarborough aren’t even playing tomorrow. I assumed you’d planned to take Mrs A to the ground to pay your respects to Filey?

Otherwise simply avoid all the pubs we went in when we went and you should be ok, particularly the Leeds one that we sprayed darts around!

 

Agnolotti al Sanguinaccio con crema di senape Inglese
Ravioli filled with Black Pudding, with an English mustard sauce

I've not been in the place since I was a kid but how can you not love a place with Black Pudding Ravioli on the menu

Proper fusion cooking that is.

 

I was in Cayton for 2 weeks this summer and didn't go in The Farrier once.

It looked snooty.

Not for the likes of me and my hound.


I used The Star instead.

Nice pint but didn't do food as they didn't currently have a chef.






No use to you whatsoever, this information Askew.


As you were.





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Don't go in The ****ing Grand.

 

I once stayed at the Grand, once...
It was not grand, like a low-fi version of Flowery Twats, though in its own way ironically funny..

 

I went in for a look round a few months ago Ernie and there’s still some brilliant architecture in there
How a hotel chain has been allowed to do what they’ve done to what is surely a listed building is criminal.
the sun terrace looking out over the whole bay should be a marvellous place to go
It was covered in tab ends.

 

Can you imagine how many millions it will take to get it upto specs?

 

Bit of history for ya


The hotel was designed by the Hull architect Cuthbert Brodrick,[1] who was better known as the designer of several Leeds buildings, and when completed in 1867 was one of the largest hotels in the world, as well as one of the first giant purpose-built hotels in Europe. The hotel's yellow (also referred to as tawny) brickwork was made locally in Hunmanby and is complemented with traditional red brickwork around the windows. The architectural sculpture was executed by Burstall and Taylorof Leeds.[2]

The building is designed around the theme of time: four towers to represent the seasons, 12 floors for the months of the year, 52 chimneys symbolise the weeks, and originally there were 365 bedrooms, one for each day of a non-leap year.[3] Following the renovation the room count was reduced to 280. The hotel itself is in the shape of a 'V' in honour of Queen Victoria. The hotel's peak was arguably during Victoriantimes, when wealthy holidaymakers made up the establishment's clientele. As Scarborough was a spa town, the building's baths originally included an extra pair of taps, so guests could wash in seawater as well as fresh.[4]

The design has similarities to contemporaries of the period that were stylised as "French Second Empire mode".[5] The windows on the ground and first floors are round headed. Those on the first floor also have a continuous iron rail balcony. All first to third floor windows have a cornice over the top denoting the floor boundary. The Eaves level windows are located between the projecting brackets for the eaves. The attic windows are squared dormer on the lower level and rounded on the upper. The attic levels, being part of the roof are covered in slate. On the narrow end of the building there is domed structure between the two towers. Facing the sea, the three basement levels can be seen clearly extended the full length of the building. A glass-enclosed terrace has been added on top of this.[6] The building was first listed on 8 June 1973 with number 1243163 under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

 

Agreed. It's a fantastic building. I love it. Absolutely iconic.

It's a real shame that Brittania Hotels run it the way they do, cos it's an absolute shambles, but as Rover says it would cost too much now to get it into shape to make it as a viable quality hotel concern.

 

May be Gianni’s… quality scran!

 

I used to play for the Star in Cayton in Scarboro Sunday league, nice pub.

 

My favourite chippy in Scarbs is The Lifeboat.