This has to be the worst Sunday Lunch I have ever experienced in my entire 66 years! As an ex-pat Harrogate Yorkshireman I travelled 200+ miles from my present home in Wiltshire eagerly anticipating a traditional Yorkshire "Sunday Dinner" at what I remembered as the best eating establishment for miles around Harrogate. Instead we were treated to a conglomeration of undercooked vegatables of a variety that never existed in my day in combination - courgettes, broccoli and carrots, a helping of mashed potatoes that could have been heaped on a teaspoon, a Yorkshire Pudding that was unrecognisable in all of shape, taste and consistency and most of all, gravy that looked like coloured water and tasted the same. An absolute disgrace for a meal that for a party of six including 2 children and merely nominal drinks cost £70+. This establishment should fire its chef and its present management for allowing such garbage to be served as "food" and for denegrating both traditions of "real" Yorkshire food and of a hostelry renowned in the past.
Smiths Arms – Harrogate