The White Swan
Pickering, Yorkshire
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Good Hotel Guide Review
The Buchanan family’s 16th-century coaching inn offers a warm Yorkshire mix of traditional pub, smart food and modern bedrooms with character. Overlooking the market square, it’s a popular locals’ spot both for the ales in the fire-warmed bar and snug and the accomplished cooking. With most items, including bread and ice cream, made from scratch, chef Darren Clemmit delivers classic dishes with creativity but without pretension: perhaps a starter of cured chalk stream trout followed by roast rump of Yorkshire lamb with charred, dripping-braised carrots. There are pub standards, too. Meals are taken in the atmospheric dining room with candlesticks, polished tables and a fire. The extensive wine list, with its collection of St-Émilions, impressed one reader. Bedrooms in the main building have feature wallpapers, colourful fabrics and the occasional antique; one has a grand four-poster. More spacious and modern rooms with slate floors are in converted stables at the back. All have fresh milk and bathrobes. Breakfast is a feast including home-made granola, smoked haddock, mushrooms on brioche, plus a full Yorkshire.
Hotel details
Address
Market Place
Pickering
Yorkshire
YO18 7AA
England
Telephone
01751 472288
Bedrooms
21. 9 in annexe, 8 on ground floor.
Open
all year.
Facilities
bar, snug, lounge, restaurant, private dining room, bothy bar/lounge, event room, in-room TV, small courtyard (alfresco meals), EV charging, bike storage, restaurant, bar and snug wheelchair accessible, adapted toilet only in bothy/residents' lounge.
Background music
in bar occasionally.
Children
all ages welcomed, under-5s free, extra bed £20.
Dogs
allowed in some bedrooms (£12.50 a night, welcome pack, sausage or bacon slice for breakfast on request), bar and snug, not in restaurant (owners may dine with dogs in snug).
Credit cards
Amex, MC, Visa.
Prices
B&B doubles from £185, singles from £155. À la carte £40.
Other reviews
Good Hotel Guide articles about
The White Swan
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- Welcome to Yorkshire: 9 hotels in the Yorkshire countryside
- Evening Standard: Five of the best hotels in North Yorkshire
Excellent room, comfortable and well appointed. Enjoyable dinner. Staff very pleasant and proactive.
- Graham Child - July 2018
In its modest way, it is lovely. The rooms in the converted stables are a delight: airy, spacious, appropriately furnished and well appointed (splendid bathroom with a good big bath, walk-in shower and practical sink.) Nice bath-robes too. Plus what is effectively your own little patio. The restaurant menu is short and simple, so they can do it, and it’s fresh and beautifully cooked. The excellent breakfast has really good bacon, first-rate kippers and smoked haddock with poached egg. The service is excellent. Not a hint of the obsequious, just naturally friendly people doing their job and working happily as a team.
- Josie and Tony Green - August 1208
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