The Stirrup Restaurant at Haworth has won a major contract from a French travel company to provide gourmet lunches for its parties of Japanese visitors to the Bronte shrine.

Tourists on the Wagon Lits Travel tours of Britain will be dropping in to enjoy a gourmet lunch of roast beef and Yorkshire pudding during their five-day trips round the sights of England and Scotland during the summer.

The restaurant in Main Street has been owned and run by Jane and Frank Parkin for the last 33 years. Their daughter, also called Jane, is now taking an active role in managing the restaurant and produces many of the items on the menu, which is based on traditional English cooking.

But her real passion is prodction of the desserts, puddings and various 'specials'. Over the next few months the Stirrup is holding a series of themed evenings, the first of them a 'Pudding Party' on July 31 which will give Jane the chance to show off her skills.

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