About Best of Harrogate

Best of Harrogate is an independent guide to the places worth your time in Harrogate: where to eat, drink, stay, shop and spend an afternoon.

Harrogate is small enough to walk across in half an hour and busy enough, with its spa-town hotels, tea rooms and independent quarters, that it is easy to end up somewhere ordinary. This guide is here to help you find the good places, from the Montpellier Quarter to Cold Bath Road and from High Harrogate to Starbeck.

Every place we list gets a score out of 10. Scores start from public reviews, and we adjust them for what we find on the place's own pages, such as awards and the care that goes into a menu. A short list of good places is more useful than a long list of every place.

Our scores are never for sale. If a business pays to be featured, the listing is labelled, and it never changes a score or a place in a ranked list.