Opening hours on the moors are not what they are in town, and some of these are seasonal, so check before you rely on one for lunch.
High and lonely
The Lion Inn on Blakey Ridge is the one everybody knows: 1,300 feet up, fires lit, food all day and beds for walkers. The Birch Hall Inn at Beck Hole is its opposite, two tiny rooms and a sweet shop in the bottom of a gorge, beer through a hatch.
Village classics
The Horseshoe at Levisham on its wide green; the Fauconberg Arms in Coxwold; the Fox and Hounds at Sinnington; the Feversham Arms at Church Houses in Farndale; the Inn at Hawnby, with rooms and a garden looking down the dale; the Board Inn at Lealholm, whose garden runs to the river.
In the towns
Helmsley has the Feathers and the Black Swan on the square and its own brewery on Bridge Street. Pickering has the White Swan. Whitby has more pubs than anywhere, from the Duke of York at the foot of the 199 steps to the tap room at the abbey brewery.
Breweries
Great Yorkshire Brewery at Cropton, Helmsley Brewing Company, Whitby Brewery by the abbey. All three have taprooms.
Many pubs close on Monday or Tuesday out of season
Dogs are welcome almost everywhere; muddy boots usually are too
