Cool place to chill out and clear your head :-) has a nice bar tooread more

Claire C and I stayed at the Rombalds the night before we started walking on the Dales Way. The…read morehotel was nice and very comfortable. It has the option to have breakfast included with your stay and I very much encourage you to take up that option. The eggs with lox on a English muffin is a great way to start any day. The eggs were tender and the muffin soft as a down pillow. We stayed in one of the suites and had a sitting room which would have been great had I needed to catch up on my correspondence, however, after traveling all the way from Colorado in the USA I was mostly interested in the bed which was highly satisfactory. Word of warning, for anyone taking the train to Ilkley with a large suit case, the hotel is at the top of a hill and wheeling your bag up there may be too much for all but the hardiest of souls. You may want to take a cab.

I pride myself on my varied range of Yelping. I like to mix it up a little and spread some joy…read more We've had budget busting and we've had budget breaking. This next one is purely for those flush moments, it's the Devonshire Arms. Let me put this into context for it. It is a hotel and restaurant in the exceptional Bolton Abbey area with money can't buy views. What is more it even has a Helipad. Yes I find that most useful when I tell Jeeves to pick me up after a few cheeky snifters of 1000 year aged malt. This place oozes class and elegance. The Burlington Restaurant is highly regarded throughout the country and the set menu will set you back £60. Think Foie Gras and lots of things I can't pronounce properly. Also think food that looks too good to eat and wouldn't be out of place in the Tate Modern. This is one dashing affair and has four AA-rosettes and a Michelin Star to prove it. However, if that is a bit out of sight for your finances then the Brassiere may be a better bet. You'll find it much more informal and easier to swallow when the end of the night bill comes in. here you can pick up a main course for under £12 and we are still looking at excellent quality food and more than your average pub grub. For me the cheese board is quite superb with locally sourced ones of the highest flavour and textures. Scrumptious. The hotel itself is out of this world and they do occasionally have special offers, bringing the price down a tad. If not you are looking at well over a £100 but it is so idyllic it's hard to argue against that cost. Sometimes you pay for what you get and that is simply the case here. The Devonshire Arms has the reputation and stature it does because it delivers on all fronts. Leave any thoughts of a cheap weekend away behind though and get the gold card at the ready.

As predicted a young front of staff acted as expected. Slow and to involved with each other and…read morewhatever was going on behind the bar. It took almost 30 mins to get our drinks and I further 15 for anyone to ask what we wanted to eat. That trend continued throughout the sitting. Very disappointing. I'm not sure what they were going for with the bread? Bits of over cooked potato sludge dotted throughout was extremely off putting. The butter, sorry cold yellow concrete that accompanied it was not getting spread on anything! Unfortunately my hopes of the butter making the bread palatable were dashed. God forbid when the mains arrive and our drinks are empty anyone asks us if we would like another! Pfff, just add it to the pile of events the Is establishment has failed deliver. I had the sausage with bubble and squeak, my girlfriend the "Dev" Burger. Now firmly in the mindset of not expecting much the mains were actually horrific. The sausages were as over hooked and charred and the burger looked like it was from Iceland. It was the toughest piece of leather ever passed as edible matter. I wish the potato sludge from the bread had stuck around in my mouth long enough to cover the taste of whatever I just ate. This was 100% the worst £50 ever spent.

It's not as bad as the one lonely other reviewer makes out. It's definitely a townie pub. One where…read morethe less polished people go for a cheap drink. And lately it's become a place for the gay crowd & alternative people to hang out. So no matter who you are they will leave you alone & not be judgemental. Other pubs you go in & people stop what they're doing, stop talking & stare at you. Kinda like the scene in 'American Werewolf in London' The new landlady has turned the pub around from its previous incarnation of being a unfriendly place for anyone who is working class British born. Like I said you could come on here in a gimp suit and no one would bat an eyelid. I'm an ale drinker so I'm often disappointed when joining into city centre pubs. However they do have Wainwright on draft. So it's better than nothing. I don't expect miracles:) This was the pub where I first got served a few decades ago. So it makes me feel good that the place is still going & it's going in the right direction.

I am pretty much a very positive person. However, even GHB, valium and copious amounts of tequila…read morecan't help me here. Bad, bad times. Imagine Vicky Pollard's rougher more scary asbo sister and you get the type of person here. Avoid like the plague unless armed with mace spray, a large gun and 100 % wits in tact!

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