Fauconberg Arms

Pub Details

Address: Coxwold

Yorkshire

YO61 4AD

Telephone: (01347) 868214

Opening Times: Weekdays
11 - 3, 6 - midnight

Location

Good Pub Guide Recommended

Friendly family-run inn with enjoyable generous food, a good range of drinks and seats in the back garden; comfortable bedrooms The extremely friendly and hospitable Rheinberg family always make their customers feel glad they came for a drink, a meal or an overnight stay in this nicely updated 17th-c inn; the breakfasts are especially good. The heavily beamed and flagstoned bar has log fires in both linked areas - one in an unusual arched fireplace in a broad low inglenook - muted contemporary colours, some attractive oak chairs by local craftsmen alongside more usual pub furnishings, nicely chosen old local photographs and other pictures, and copper implements and china. Hambleton Bitter, Theakstons Best and Wold Top Gold on handpump, a thoughtful choice of wines by the glass and 28 malt whiskies. The pub dogs, Peggy, Bramble and Phoebe, welcome other four-legged friends, if well behaved. The candlelit dining room is quietly elegant with a gently upmarket yet relaxed atmosphere. The garden behind the inn has seats and tables on the terrace and views across the fields to Byland Abbey; picnic-sets and teak benches out on the front cobbles look along this charming village's broad tree-lined verges, bright with flower tubs. This year, they've opened a shop selling home-baked bread, their own cheese and other groceries.

Good Pub Guide Food

Cooked by the landlord and his daughters using seasonal local produce and game, the excellent food includes lunchtime sandwiches, a daily-changing terrine or pâté, black pudding with crispy, dry-cured bacon on a cucumber and red onion salad, fresh whitby cod in beer batter, ham and eggs, home-made burgers, vegetable pancakes, corn-fed chicken, prawns and mushrooms in a pernod-laced creamy sauce, daily fresh fish dishes, and pork medallions flamed in madeira with walnuts, figs and ginger.