Dean Bailey heads to Durham and Shaun Hurrell’s Barrio Comida We’ve spent quite a bit of time in Durham this...
Dean Bailey heads to Heaton for Saturday brunch at Smoke & Sear If you drop a pin anywhere on a...
Dean Bailey finds his perfect Sunday at Whitechurch, Durham What makes a perfect Sunday? Is it lying in, a nice walk by the river, then whiling away the afternoon with a long, three-course lunch and a good bottle of wine as you watch the world pass by? It certainly is...
My well-laid plans are in tatters. After weeks of deliberating the merits of hundreds of restaurants, the one I wanted...
Sarah Cook savours Hexham’s acclaimed Bouchon Bistrot, and regrets her lack of photographic record People assume it’s all glamour, this...
Dean Bailey enjoys dinner at Corbridge’s much talked-about new dining destination, Sycamore As foodie destinations go, Corbridge is a good one. From quality dining to buzzing tearooms, you can graze its historic streets all day and evening should the fancy take you, and invest in quality local produce to take...
Jane Pikett spends a happy afternoon at Little Lobo in Sandyford, Newcastle In a former life, I was a Mexican...
Dean Bailey charts a course to The Ship Inn, Wylam Living within a few hundred yards of the River Tyne...
The contemporary new look at Bouchon is a fine setting for its classic food, discovers Dean Bailey The word ‘neighbourhood’, as attached to restaurants, is suddenly all the rage. A bit of a fad, rather like that silly craze for slates instead of plates and ‘deconstructed’ desserts instead of proper...
There was little to stir the Appetite team from its grumbling slumber during the long lockdown of winter 2020/21. Then...
Dean Bailey comes to talk with Dabbawal, Jesmond – again Dabbawal’s Jesmond kitchen is one of the best restaurant spaces...
Dean Bailey visits the new-look Knights Restaurant at Lumley Castle Every Englishman’s home is his castle, but when you dine in a proper stronghold – one with a new-look restaurant and an acclaimed new chef in post – it can emphasise the subtle differences between your three-bed semi and the...
