Restaurants in York

Once regarded as the second city of the realm, York began as a fortress built by the Romans, who named it Eboracum ('a place of yew trees'). Many centuries later, it's a city dominated by tourism and lives on its history: visitors from around the world come to see the magnificent Minster and get their thrills on the ghost walks.

York's restaurants play their part, and are attractions in their own right: they are keen to promote local produce and some even serve genuine Yorkshire puddings!

Blue Bicycle Tucked away down a cobbled street close to the Foss Bridge, this old building was a brothel in Victorian times. The red light is long-gone and the place now thrives as a bistro-style restaurant full of homespun charms

J Baker's Bistro Moderne The ground-floor dining room lives and breathes laid-back cosmopolitan style, with its light wood and subdued cream and brown colour schemes; a few modern pictures and a baby piano create just the right mood

Melton's After spending years learning his craft with the Roux brothers, Michael Hjort came back home in 1990 to run his own restaurant in an out-of-the-way backwater of York not far from the racecourse