It all feels a bit too good to be true, to be cheersing pints in the shadow of York’s ancient city walls, bags plonked down next to the four-poster bed upstairs, just two hours after pulling out of King’s Cross.
But this is the beauty of a stay at The Fat Badger, York’s newest pub-with-rooms from British pub group The HRH Group. The four-star fine-dining inn and hotel opened in May after a £1 million renovation that saw it transformed from the former Lamb & Lion inn into a shiny new sister of the much-adored Fat Badger pub in nearby Harrogate.
