The Taste Bar & Restaurant

You're walking along the Esplanade on a decent day, and you clock this place perched right there on the front. The Taste is the restaurant arm of the Crown Spa Hotel—proper old-school Scarborough hospitality, the kind that's been looking after visitors and locals alike for years. Inside, you've got that seafront restaurant feel: decent enough space, the kind of place where you can actually hear yourself talk but it doesn't feel sterile. The kitchen takes its job seriously without getting pretentious about it. It's the sort of spot you'd take someone you actually want to impress, whether that's a date, your parents visiting, or just yourself after a long week.