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10:24am Saturday 8th November 2008
WE ARE grateful to the many readers who alerted us to this relatively new venue. Run most professionally by volunteers associated with Haxby and Wiggington Methodist church, there is no overt religious connection.
10:50am Saturday 25th October 2008
EATING and drinking in a public library used to be forbidden. Now all that has changed. In fact, in Acomb library it is positively encouraged.
8:40am Saturday 18th October 2008
If you enjoy Italian food (not the pasta and pizzas associated with most Italian restaurants), this could be the place for you.
6:49am Saturday 11th October 2008
Don’t believe all you read in the papers. Was it the phraseology or our interpretation?
9:43am Saturday 4th October 2008
WE HAD completed a pleasant, if at times strenuous, walk round Millington. None of the country cafés and pubs were open mid-week, so the convenient town of Pocklington was our target.
11:01am Saturday 27th September 2008
THOMAS’S of Helmsley is a well respected bakery, with many branches in York and district. Not all have an adjacent café, but the Acomb branch is an exception.
9:00am Saturday 20th September 2008
WE never thought some good might come out of the closure of a post office. But it has in Bishopthorpe Road, where the premises are now occupied by a vibrant café.
10:46am Saturday 13th September 2008
The venue is self service, providing a variety of hot and cold meals, snacks and drinks.
11:23am Saturday 6th September 2008
HAD it not been for the Potters, we may never have spotted this refreshment spot.
10:45am Saturday 30th August 2008
THE controversy about A-boards prompted our visit to this venue. It is only just within Monkbar, so we can understand why guidance is essential.
12:39pm Saturday 23rd August 2008
WHEN there is a shared entrance, there sometimes appears to be a difficulty about who is responsible for keeping it clean.
11:20am Saturday 16th August 2008
ON our return from Beverley, where we had fulfilled one of our regular charity commitments, we called in at this garden centre.
10:42am Saturday 9th August 2008
READERS are very kind and regularly provide us with suggestions of cafés and snack spots we should try. Some of them we have already surveyed, others are new to us.
12:17pm Saturday 2nd August 2008
In this week’s Quick Eats, Graeme Robertson visits Peter Ward’s tea rooms at Pocklington.
10:50am Saturday 26th July 2008
DIFFICULT to spot from a distance, this café is one of the first such venues visitors pass on their way from the Castle car park.
I NEVER thought that when defending freedom of speech, thought and action, it would be the fascists I would be sticking up for.
Will the Government’s new proposals to tackle dangerous drivers work? STEPHEN LEWIS weighs up the evidence.
HIS achievements may never be bettered. He is the only trainer to saddle more than 1,000 winners on both the Flat and the jumps.
The Volkswagen Passat is a car of considerable ability – a workhorse that has won the hearts of many drivers looking for a reliable, economical and sober-looking saloon with top-notch build quality.
MEET Tina, Tammy, Sonya, Leyla, Nice and their fellow feline Lady Boys of Bangkok, and their tour manager/translator Anwar, in the Dress Circle Bar at the Grand Opera House.
FISH is in pursuit of his 13th Star on his latest album and on the road this autumn.
THE Man (Alistair Petrie) and the Woman (Katy Stephens) have everything.
PETER Smith, the award-winning naive artist, will support the nationwide tour of his *May Contain Nuts exhibition by making an appearance at Castle Galleries York, in Castlegate, York, on Sunday afternoon.
Exiled Cornish comedian and writer Paul Kerensa headlines Sunday’s bill at the Hyena Lounge Comedy Club, in The Basement at City Screen, York.
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