Knaresborough, Fish & Seafood Restaurant Guide

This veteran fish and seafood specialist has been a fixture of the Montpelier Quarter for 55 years – and has, remarkably, maintained its standards and independence, most recently under the Carter family, the owners since 2013. “The food is always very good and often excellent” by all accounts.

An “original ambience” contributes to the charm of this eccentrically decorated hotel-restaurant, bedecked in grandfather clocks, chandeliers, tubas and drums – and part of the 18th-century Crab Manor, where the quirky décor continues in five globe-trotting bedrooms. “Tasty” fish is the specialism, but there was also praise this year for the “nice game”. Service can still occasionally lag – “maybe short staffed”? In Summer 2024, they added a sun-trapped terrace, further amplifying the “nice surroundings”.