Oak Tree Inn

What will you eat, when you’re in Yorkshire? This may sound like a silly question for those of you who haven’t really considered the matter, but for others, it will be spot on. Our national attention is becoming more and more focused on eating well and eating right. Not in the sense of counting calories, but in the sense of eating sustainably and seasonally. It is more and more important to us these days to know where our food came from and how it got to us. The result is, of course, that we are enjoying more and more delicious and nutratively valuable meals. When you pay attention to your food after all, the rewards are amazing.

Eating in Yorkshire

Yorkshire is the home to many traditional food products including:

• Cheese
• Lamb
• Beef
• Pork
• Ham
• Baked Goods
• Pies
• Fish
• Chocolate

When you couple these products, and other local produce, with a great deal of interest and innovation, you get amazing programs and restaurant options like the deliciouslyorkshire menu scheme. This program unites customers with the best that local food sources have to offer on the menus of member establishments. Be sure to check out the full roster of members on the deliciouslyorkshire website while planning your trip. You won’t be sorry.

Award Winning Yorkshire Food Products

Need some more inspiration? How about the recently held fifth annual deliciouslyorkshire awards? These awards are meant to celebrate the best that the Yorkshire food scene has to offer and you can take advantage of all the judges’ hard work by familiarizing yourself with the results. Yum!

• Yummy Yorkshire’s Ice Cream Company’s Lou’s Liquorice Ice Cream–Supreme Product, Best Dairy Product
• Stephanie Moon, consultant chef at the Clocktower Restaurant–Champion
• Shepard’s Purse, Monk’s Folly–Best Cheese Product
• Yorkshire Dales Meat Company, Aberdeen Angus 7 Week Matured Sirloin Steak–Best Fresh Meat Product
• Taste Tradition, Hambleton Lightning Ham – Best-Prepared Meat Product
• Little Valley Brewery, Withens IPA – Best Drink Product
• Ripley Fudge Kitchen, Homemade Chocolate Fudge – Best Confectionery Product
• Proper Maid, Dandelion and Burdock Cake – Best Bakery product
• Yorkshire Baker, Gluten Free Beef Steak and Mushroom Pie – Best-Prepared Food Product
• York Preserves, Double Fruit Raspberry Jam – Best Spices, Oils, Condiments and Preserves Product
• Mackenzies Yorkshire Smokehouse, Oak Roast Salmon – Best Fish & Seafood product
• WS Bentley Growers, Sprouting Peas – Best Fresh Produce Product
• Nethergill Farm – Breakfast Member of the Year
• Cedarbarn Farmshop & Cafe – Best use of Regional Produce on a Menu- Cafe/Tearoom
• The Black Swan at Oldstead – Best use of Regional Produce on a menu- Restaurant/Pub/Inn
• The Farmers Cart – Farm Shop Retailer of the Year
• Fodder – Independent Retailer of the Year
• The Balloon Tree Farmshop & Cafe – award for Innovation

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