Forge is designed to offer guests a timeless, classic dining experience that transcends the ordinary. Making use of each of the beautiful four seasons and surroundings of its Yorkshire landscape, Forge takes direction from the Old Farmer’s Almanac, sharing notes from the kitchen, gardens and greenhouses. The aim is to highlight some of the passionate farmers and local suppliers who provide the restaurant’s produce - through their own labour of love and preservation of the outside landscape. Reservations are taken from Thursday through to Sunday, on evenings only.
Middleton Lodge was brought back to life by the Allison family, and is a 200 acre privately owned estate near Richmond in North Yorkshire. Forge is just one of the estate’s award winning restaurants, which sit amongst a thirty bedroom hotel, two self catered cottages and some treatment rooms. The beautiful gardens and parkland are home to incredible wildlife. A trip to Forge at Middleton Lodge is not just a great experience for foodies, but makes for an evening at one of the most gorgeous locations in the area.
Forge is a fine dining restaurant that is inspired by the grounds that it rests on. Here, you’ll enjoy either a six or ten course tasting menu. Begin with dishes like the mix of potato, St Ewe’s curd, guincale and barbecued kale, or the English mushroom biscuit topped with Barncliffe mascarpone and English truffle. Midway you’ll enjoy dishes like the dry aged fallow deer with a bitter leaf salad, fermented plum and yesterday’s bread cream - truly making the most of all of the food inside the Forge’s doors. Dessert is always delicious, and the perfect ending to a perfect meal. Expect a dish like that of the cranberry and preserved garden macaron.