Fourth restaurant for top Yorkshire chef

One of Yorkshire’s leading chefs. Andrew Pern will take over Whitby’s tourist information building for a new brasserie-style fish and seafood restaurant.

Born and raised in Whitby, Pern won a pitch to Scarborough Council to take over the building on Langborne Road, close to the harbour and overlooking Whitby Abbey.

The new restaurant will be called The Star Inn The Harbour and is due to open next spring. It will cater for tourists and locals alike, and showcase the region’s finest fresh fish and seafood.

This will be Pern’s fourth Yorkshire eatery, following the recent opening of Mr P’s Curious Tavern, near York Minster. He also runs the Michelin-starred Star Inn at Harome and York’s Star Inn The City restaurant.

Pern, who represented the North East in the BBC Great British Menu, says that the North Sea is a major part of his kitchen larder, with the quality of the fish and shellfish being the envy of the world.