Legacy review: a star in the making in York

This intimate restaurant at The Grand hotel is a fine setting for Ahmed Abdalla’s assured cooking

Fine-dining restaurant Legacy opened in August 2022
Fine-dining restaurant Legacy opened in August 2022
(Image credit: The Grand, York)

A confession. I visited The Grand, York hotel’s new restaurant Legacy late last year, not long after it had opened and held off on this review. Why? Because rather than take my word for the quality of the cooking or, in the one or two early weaker spots, the obvious potential, I wanted to give it the chance to bed-in a little, and fully expected Michelin to have backed up my vaguely inevitable gushing. And it has.

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