The Pipe & Glass

Licensee: James MacKenzie & Kate Boroughs

Tenure: Freehold

Head chef: James MacKenzie

Covers: 65, plus 22 in the bar

Covers per week: 750 to 1,000

Best-selling dishes: hare ham hock and foie gras terrine (£6.95); lamb & kidney casserole with rosemary dumpling & honey roast carrots (£13.95).

On the menu: Starters: tartare of fresh and oak-smoked salmon with Lowna Dairy crowdie (£6.95); cold-pressed terrine of local shot hare, ham hock & foie gras with pease pudding and toasted rye bread (£6.95); home-smoked deer with celeriac coleslaw, haggis beignet and toasted walnut dressing (£6.95); little jar of potted spiced Gloucester old spot pork with sticky apples and crackling salad (£6.45).

Mains: Burdass lamb & kidney casserole, rosemary dumplings & Tibthorpe honey-roast carrots (£14.95); James Whites pork sausages, bubble & squeak, ale & onion gravy (£8.95); baked parsnip & chestnut tart, warm pickled girolle mushroom salad (£11.95).

Desserts: trio of Yorkshire orchard apples - apple and bramble crumble, steamed sticky apple sponge and apple sorbet (£6.45); warm plum & almond tart with eggnog ice cream (£5.95); ginger burnt cream with stewed rhubarb (£5.95).

New for 2008: The owners are hoping to add eight rooms.

Favourite ingredients: Anything involving game, such as partridge and roe deer - favourite dishes at the Pipe & Glass include roasted local shot partridge with parsnip dauphinoise, parsnip & smoked bacon fritter and mulled quince juices; and home-smoked Dalton Estate roe deer with celeriac remoulade, haggis beignet and cobnut dressing.

Best-selling beer and wine: Wold Top, £2.30 a pint from local brewery; Seven Terraces Sauvignon Blanc 2006; Marlborough, New Zealand, £19.95 bottle, £5.50 glass.

Pipe & Glass West End, Beverley, South Dalton, East Yorkshire 01430 810246 www.pipeandglass.co.uk​