TOP 50 GASTROPUBS 2016
5. The Star Inn, Harome, North Yorkshire
The second Yorkshire pub to feature in 2015's top ten, the Star Inn was one of the first pubs in the country to gain a Michelin star for chef Andrew Pern's cooking. Although the Star Inn lost it's Michelin star in 2011, it regained it after tireless work in 2014.
Last year saw the opening of the Star Inn's sister site in York, the Star Inn The City, as well as the extension of the Star Inn's hotel facilities.
Sample dishes: North sea octopus "Carpaccio" with black olive sorbet, roasted peppers, soft boiled quail egg, anchovy fritters and garden lovage mayonnaise, twice baked Yorkshire blue cheese and lovage soufflé with pickled beetroot, mulled pear and allotment leaves, pot-roasted red leg partridge with Harome honey puffed wheat, parsnip and hazelnut milk and game jelly.
