Quote Originally Posted by Aqualung View Post
This was featured on BBC News this afternoon. It sounds like a restaurant rather than a pub and they have been snowed under after the Trip Advisor award. At the moment I doubt that they would take kindly to anyone going there just for a drink.

Quote Originally Posted by sheffield hatter View Post
I detect a challenge!

I took in the Black Swan on my way from Hawes to Helmsley. It was a Monday afternoon, just after 3, but the place was open. No sign of any hand pumps or fonts, but I enquired of the young woman who greeted me if it was ok to have just a beer. She replied in the affirmative and asked me to take a seat and she would come to take my order. Uh-oh, I thought, this is a restaurant, not a pub.

She approached me and asked if I was ready to make my choice. Is there no draught beer, I enquired? No, she said, it's a restaurant not a pub. What a shame, quoth I, that means I'll have to delete it from Pubs Galore, the well-known pubs website. (Not really.)

I have marked it as closed, though.