Change in store at Meltons and Chopping Block in York
THERE will be a changing of the guard at two of York’s longest running restaurants when they re-open in May. Michael Hjort, co-proprietor of the popular Melton’s restaurant in South Bank, is to leave the kitchen there in the care of head chef Calvin Miller and install himself permanently in the kitchen of the Chopping Block at Walmgate Ale House. Lucy, Michael’s wife, will be staying on as front of House at Melton’s which was opened by Michael and Lucy in 1990 and Michael admits that although he has not managed the kitchen directly for a few years, the change is the “end of an...