ristorazione — Sutton on the Forest · Yorkshire and the Humber
In North Yorkshire, a few kilometres from York, Sutton on the Forest is a village that keeps the rhythm of the seasons. In this unexpected setting, Il Paradiso on the Forest brings Italian culinary tradition — from seafood to pizza — into the heart of the English countryside.
The façade sits along York Road, in a village that does not expect to find Italy here. Domenico Di Maggio has built a sign that carries his name and his origins: a restaurant that does not imitate, but faithfully translates Italian gastronomy into a corner of the Yorkshire countryside.
The dining room is designed to welcome: weddings, private ceremonies, events that call for a carefully curated atmosphere and a space able to adapt to the occasion. Il Paradiso on the Forest has built its reputation on this vocation for hospitality too, where organisation goes hand in hand with a setting that knows how to strike the right note for every celebration.
In the kitchen, two souls of Italian tradition coexist: seafood, treated with the care such a delicate ingredient deserves, and pizza. Two distinct registers that tell the same ambition — bringing something recognisable to the table, without compromise, two thousand kilometres from Italy.
This page tells the story of everything Il Paradiso on the Forest has built, season after season, in this unexpected corner of Yorkshire.
