The founder of the Cheese Bar in London is to open his first restaurant outside the capital this autumn.
Mathew Carver will launch Rind next door to award-winning cheese shop the Courtyard Dairy near Settle in North Yorkshire.
He has teamed up with Andy Swinscoe, the Courtyard Dairy’s founder, to open a 40-cover cheese-focused restaurant.
It will serve wood-fired pizza, natural wine, and British cheese boards across lunch and dinner.
Dishes will include a half Lancashire, half Wensleydale pizza as well as an ever-changing selection of baked cheeses.
The restaurant will be housed in an old falconry centre and feature views over Ingleborough, the second highest mountain in Yorkshire.
“I’ve been a fan boy of Andy and the Courtyard Dairy since I got into British cheese nearly 10 years ago,” said Carver.
“His ethos on promoting and championing farm-made cheese and supporting our rural economies is so in line with our own values, I couldn’t think of anyone I’d rather have as our new neighbour.
“We aim to create restaurants that inspire us as a team and the opportunity to open a pizza restaurant with the most incredible views imaginable certainly does that.”
Carver started out selling grilled cheese sandwiches from a food truck at festivals in 2014 and opened his first restaurant, the Cheese Bar, in Camden in 2017. A second site with a rotating conveyor belt of cheese, Pick & Cheese, opened in London’s Seven Dials in 2017 and was followed by floating canal boat restaurant the Cheese Barge in Paddington Basin in 2021.
Source: The Caterer
