The Hayburn Wyke, Cloughton: The Yorkshire pub which is the exception to my hatred for carveries

The illusion of bigger portions aside, you’re paying for the second best of everything. Just last week, though, I found an exception to this hard-held (and oft-evidenced) lifelong opinion.

The Hayburn Wyke, in Cloughton, has been a favourite of mine for a good while now and I always find time to pop there when visiting Scarborough.

For the first time ever, though, I went on a Sunday and I didn’t know (or had blocked from my mind) that they offer a carvery. Dismayed, but with the hungry faces of my kids staring at me, I relented, and we settled down expecting overcooked meat and sloppy veg.

What a delight it was, then, to find the Hayburn Wyke carvery is surprisingly palatable. The meat and yorkies and roast veg are kept well and regularly replenished (meaning you’re as likely to get new grub as old) and the other veg is as good as fresh, rather than slowly disintegrating while doing the backstroke.

A revelation, but one I should have expected from such a relentlessly marvellous boozer. The Hayburn Wyke doesn’t feel like your usual North Yorkshire country pub.

Yes, there are open fires and decent ale and a hearty welcome but the wooden floors and semi-timbered walls give more the impression of a West Country barn. Somewhere you’d swig rough scrumpy while jigging around to a country and western band.

Please note that I still hate carveries. I just like this single, particular carvery. It’ll take more than one plate of grub to turn me into a full-time carverphiliac.

Hayburn Wyke Inn, Newlands Road, Cloughton, Scarborough, YO13 0AU

www.hayburnwykeinn.co.uk

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