Food and Drink in Wetherby
Wetherby is a prosperous Wharfeside market town about 12 miles from Leeds city centre, granted its royal market charter in 1240 and shaped by its long role as the halfway coaching stop on the Great North Road between London and Edinburgh. Its food and drink scene reflects that history — traditional posting-inn pubs, tea rooms, fish and chips, independent restaurants and a Thursday open market still trading in the historic Market Place around the Town Hall. The Shambles (originally built by the Duke of Devonshire as a row of butchers' shops) and Wetherby Racecourse — Yorkshire's premier National Hunt venue, founded on its present York Road site in 1891 — sit just nearby.
Wetherby is a prosperous Wharfeside market town about 12 miles from Leeds city centre, granted its royal market charter in 1240 and shaped by its long role as the halfway coaching stop on the Great North Road between London and Edinburgh. Its food and drink scene reflects that history — traditional posting-inn pubs, tea rooms, fish and chips, independent restaurants and a Thursday open market still trading in the historic Market Place around the Town Hall. The Shambles (originally built by the Duke of Devonshire as a row of butchers' shops) and Wetherby Racecourse — Yorkshire's premier National Hunt venue, founded on its present York Road site in 1891 — sit just nearby.
