Yorkshire Tapas - Harrogate

This was our visit and just as good. For people, would recommend about dishes between you. We had, beef bon bons, rosemary potatoes, pork belly, fish goujons the Bradford curry, all were delicious. Sat in the window overlooking the gardens, just...a lovely experience all round and at less than for with drinks, I think it’s pretty reasonable too.

If you like to be in a really nice venue, served by excellent staff and eat over priced average food then this is the place for you.

Sited as it is, upstairs from the Blues Bar, this place should have all the ingedients for a great night. The atmoshere was superb, but unfortunately our experience was let down by poor service. In the on-line booking form there is an opportunity to say...whether the visit represents a special occasion, and as it was my wife's birthday I ticked the appropriate box. There were five of us, and things started well. This was an early doors booking, so there was no live music at this point but the DJ played a good selection and downstairs people were already dancing. We ordered drinks and food quickly, and after about half an hour the tapas started coming out. All the dishes arrived over about a twenty minute period except for two, the prawns and tatties bravas. After about minutes we asked if the missing dishes were on their way, and we were told they were. A further half hour later they still hadn't arrived, and we were told that the food lift had broken, and they would have to cook the dishes again. I did wonder how it was that others were being served if the food lift had broken, so I suspected that our dishes had been given to the wrong table. After a further minutes or so the tatties arrived, but no prawns. After more time, about another minutes I decided to cancel the prawns and asked for the bill. The charges for some of our drinks, and of course the prawns, were removed from the bill, and we were offered shots of tequila to say sorry....which was a nice gesture, but we declined. By this time the evening was at best a disappointment. The tapas we chose were ok, but not great. The goujons of haddock were very nice, but the Yorkshire Bhaji was disappointing. The portions were quite small, and the guidance was to order dishes between two people. I'd suggest you need more than that if you're at all hungry. It isn't an expensive menu, so represents reasonable value. The servers were very polite, but never once did they check whether we wanted more drinks or whether we had received all our food, we had to go and seek people out whenever we wanted something (except when we placed the initial order). It was quite frustrating having raised the issue of the missing food, that we didn't get one update once we had informed them, we had to go chasing on at least three occasions. As I said at the start it should have all the ingredients for a decent night out, but maybe not the place to go if you want decent food delivered in a reasonable timescale.

If you are up for a different dining experience and willing to try something different give this a go. This was truly an experience. We booked at very short notice and got a slot on a Saturday night. We had not been to the venue...before and we were rather taken aback with the lively party going on at ground level but guessed that High Top meant upstairs. That was a louder ding area than we would have chosen but interesting. Food was a clever Yorkshire take on Spanish idea. Not all the dishes were a success but it was worth the experiment. We probably would try somewhere else the next time we are in Harrogate but wouldn’t put anyone off giving Yorkshire Tapas a try, just don’t expect a quiet night,

I booked a table for one (a COVID related single booking) at through Open Table and was delighted to have the booking accepted, because everywhere else I'd tried was fully booked. When I arrived, the staff clearly knew nothing about the booking, and I...was invited to go downstairs to the main bar (which is great by the way) until a table became available, which would be soon I was assured. minutes passed, with no one inviting me to go back upstairs, I decided to abandon the whole thing. I had another very fine beer, telling the table server (who clearly had no idea what had happened) to cancel the booking, and left. If you are going to use OpenTable, make sure you have the TABLE and kitchen staff to deliver some kind of service!