The beautiful but tiny UK village that boasts Britain’s ‘best’ Sunday pub roast

The Abbey Inn serves the UK's champion Sunday Roast (Image: @goodfoodguideuk via Instagram)

A pub has been crowned arsenic the champion spot successful the UK for roast meal - and it's successful a gloriously beauteous location.

According to the Good Food Guide, the Abbey Inn, successful Byland, North Yorkshire, has clinched the fig 1 spot successful the Top 50 Best Sunday Roasts successful Britain for 2024.

The pub, owned by cook Tommy Banks who has won 3 Great British Menus awards, has been unfastened for conscionable implicit a year.

However, it's earned a accelerated pursuing owed to its unthinkable Sunday roasts, which diagnostic rare-breed Berkshire pork and Herdwick Lamb consecutive from the Bank’s household farm.

Not lone does it service an bonzer lunch, but the pub is located successful the beauteous countryside colony of Byland making it the cleanable spot to bask a peaceful, quiescent lunch. The Abbey Inn besides has rooms that place the historical ruins of Byland Abbey giving visitors the eventual view.

The pub offers a presumption of Byland Abbey (Image: Getty)

Tommy Banks said: "At this clip of twelvemonth there's thing amended than going to the pub for a roast dinner, it's a large portion of our civilization and thing I ever look guardant to. We've worked hard to guarantee that each constituent of our Sunday meal shines.

“The Yorkshires, the potatoes, the meat, the gravy, it's each truthful important – everyone tin marque a bully roast astatine location but it's hard to marque perfectly everything conscionable right.

"The Best Sunday Roast Award is simply a testament to the hard enactment of the squad successful doing truthful and we're precise blessed with it."

The Good Food usher received implicit 18,000 nationalist nominations, sharing that 75% of their readers said that a roast is Britain's astir fashionable dish.

Inspectors visited pubs, cafes and restaurants crossed the full federation to effort retired their roasts and spot which would marque the UK's database of the apical 50 and successful those visits recovered that the state pub's was successful information the best.

A Sunday Roast is Britian's favourite crockery (Image: Getty)

Chloë Hamilton, co-editor of The Good Food Guide, congratulated the establishment, saying: "Tommy Banks' handsome pub combines a striking mounting beneath Byland Abbey with the lovingly home-reared, home-grown nutrient that underpins each large roast. There's delicacy and thoughtfulness connected the sheet without being excessively fancy.

“The down-to-earth deliciousness from 1 of Britain's apical chefs makes it a worthy victor of our inaugural 'Best Sunday Roast' accolade.

"The Abbey Inn led a beardown and incredibly divers list: each 1 genuinely hard to fault, accomplished successful presumption of prime of ingredients and execution, and warm, affable service."