Mathew Carver to open cheese-focused restaurant in Yorkshire

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.