Obsessed

yoyo · Post by **yoyo** » 12 Jul 2008, 1:03pm

Bikes would not fit in Betty's in York but the food is simply yummie if somewhat pricey. Not to be missed IMO if one is cycling through the beautiful city of York

mrs doubtfire · Post by **mrs doubtfire** » 12 Jul 2008, 10:17pm

City of York.A Cycle chatter here.From Cycle Chat.York a latte and chocolate fudge cake and cream six quid.Mind you the view of The Minster was brilliant.

JohnW · Post by **JohnW** » 13 Jul 2008, 7:50pm

Betty's in Ilkley is marginally better than in York. They do not, however, do egg&chips - so I don't go there.

However everyone, p[lease don't be under the impression that Betty's is the only good thing about Yorkshire.

patricktaylor · Post by **patricktaylor** » 13 Jul 2008, 9:09pm

Yorkshire is wonderful, and not just for eating eggs and potatoes. The Dales are Heaven on Earth. And it's true that Betty's doesn't do egg & chips, but they do serve Swiss Rösti. Delicious. A sort of grated potato pancake served with runny egg on top.

JohnW · Post by **JohnW** » 13 Jul 2008, 10:27pm

Yeah Patrick - yesterday I did Wharfedale, Littondale and Ribblesdale.

I know it's true, and yet I can't believe it myself - I promise you - it didn't rain all day!!!!!!!

Last Tuesday I did Wharfedale, Langstrothdale, Wensleydale, Swaledale, Widdale and Ribblesdale - and before I got home, it rained like it had never rained before.

There's majesty in bad weather. But it's also a pain in the neck.

JohnW · Post by **JohnW** » 13 Jul 2008, 10:33pm

Actually Patrick - you're from Horwich, so you must have been to Glasson Dock. The "Lantern O'er Lune" cafe there is known for it's fish, but their egg&chips, at lunch on the "Red Rose" Audax, were the best I've had this year.

And it didn't rain then either.

patricktaylor · Post by **patricktaylor** » 13 Jul 2008, 10:53pm

Yes, I rode to Glasson Dock last year (from Preston). I stopped at a cafe on a corner on the waterfront but I didn't notice its name. It was raining majestic buckets (left) but my glasses didn't like it.

On a recent visit to Harrogate I got a book called 'Cycle Tours Yorkshire Dales' by Nick Cotton. One-day rides. The aim is to persuade my wife (who received a new touring bike for her birthday) to accompany me on some of those rides. She isn't yet obsessed with cycling but I'm part way there. Hills (like Whisky) tend to be a man-thing, I find.

JohnW · Post by **JohnW** » 14 Jul 2008, 3:35am

patricktaylor wrote: Hills (like Whisky) tend to be a man-thing, I find.

I was once riding up Park Rash (from Wharfedale into Coverdale), when I was overtaken by Beryl Burton - presumably just on one of her mid-morning training rides. I'd climbed the initial hard climb, and I was sweating like a monsoon, proud as punch at having climbed it at all, when she breezed past me, cool as a cucumber, feathers unruffled, with a cheery "hello", and left me for, if not dead, close.

Yeah - hills are a "man thing" - I always maintain that no good comes from wasting a good hill - but it does depend upon the woman.

Talk of Park Rash leads me into Wensleydale (via Coverdale) , and if anyone knows of a good egg&chips emporium in Wensleydale, particularly the upper dale, can they tell me please? Hawes has "twee" - quite good if you like twee and want to pay tourist prices - and a greasy spoon, but quality egg&chips I've not found since my previously usual cafe became a greasy spoon.

What am I doing out of bed at this time of night? Well, I can never sleep if I haven't climbed a good hill during that day, and today (or rather yesterday) I didn't.

vernon · Post by **vernon** » 14 Jul 2008, 5:14am

patricktaylor wrote:Sounds idyllic (yes, weather permitting) but in my case I'd be looking for pasta cafes, not something you'd expect to find in the hills of the West Pennines. Egg & chips does seem more Halifaxian than Cornwallian.

Of course Yorkshire is also known for Bettys but I doubt if they'd let you take your bike inside.

Can't beat a good pie shop.

A recently as Friday night I was being ridiculed for my ability to describe bike rides in order of diminishing pleasure according to the quality of pies available en route.

Last Friday night was a four pie night in the Station Inn at Ribblehead where not only do they serve championship pies from Clapham including pork and black pudding pie x 2, a straight forward growler x 1 but also make a mean steak and ale pie x1 made in house. On the way home a quick visit to Elijah's in Hawes for a Taylor's pork pie then Otley for a Weegmann's pie. I could have incorporated a visit to Skipton for a Stanforth pie then i could have slotted in Ilkley for a Lishman's pie before Otley but then I would have had room for a Dalby's pie from the family butcher at the end of my street in Meanwood.

Obsessed? Me? Nah......

vernon · Post by **vernon** » 14 Jul 2008, 5:18am

JohnW wrote:Betty's in Ilkley is marginally better than in York. They do not, however, do egg&chips - so I don't go there.

However everyone, p[lease don't be under the impression that Betty's is the only good thing about Yorkshire.

Betty's is eclipsed by pie shops and top notch pork butchers. Having said that my wedding lunch was held in Betty's where we had bacon sandwiches (no crusts) and Gerwurtztraminer (sp?) wine.