The first thing they did was to get rid of the deep fat fryers. A breath of fresh air from Eastborough, Café View is fresh, cool and clean. The decor is silvery grey, with marble tables, chrome chairs, and an extravagant panoramic view of the whole of the South Bay, headland to headland. The staff are excellent, willing to chat to customers and tempt them to something on the sweet menu.

The food is a mixture of Mediterranean and Yorkshire: a ciabbata of Wensleydale cheese and Old Yorkshire Chutney (a delicious, spicy affair) or a bruschetta of tomato, red onion and basil. Café View's salads are a speciality: colourful, moist and fresh, full of the flavours of walnuts, grapes, and dark, Italian leaves. They serve unusually good coffee, and bright combinations of strawberries, raspberries, cream and meringue.

The children's menu was a relief. Usually the worst, here they serve toasted cheese triangles with bread, carrot and celery sticks, Dairylea, organic fruit juice and raisins: not a chicken dinosaur in sight.

The freshness of the food speaks for itself: fruit and veg from the market just across the road, meat from the local butchers, and specialists such as the Bothams of Whitby plum bread. This business understands its audience, serving a traditional lunch deal of sandwich, hot drink and teacake or scone alongside their more inventive dishes. And, essentially, the price is reasonable too.