Northumberland Holiday Guide 2009
Dining in
DINING OUT
Whether you’re staying in one of Northumberland’s cosy country pubs, romantic country
house hotels, welcoming B&Bs or historic self-catering cottages, there’s plenty of opportunity
to give your taste buds a treat...
Northumberland is a spectacular county with a coastline Belford – Best breakfasts in the Borders
peppered with fishing villages, a countryside containing South of Berwick, just off the Great North Road (A1) is the little
countless farms, woods and hillsides abounding with game and town of Belford and the charming, Michelin recommended,
rivers full of fresh salmon and trout. There are also numerous Market Cross B&B (01668 213 013) whose lunches, dinners,
artisan food producers making everything from cheese to and breakfasts in particular, are inspired. There’s more excellent
chutney and the county’s expert chefs and cooks make local cooking at the Blue Bell Hotel (01668 213 543) whose
marvellous use of this bounteous larder. contemporary-British Garden Restaurant, specialises in local
fish, meat, game and cheese.
The county’s chefs and restaurants have a refreshingly different
attitude to food: in Northumberland food is something to be
Black Bull, Etal, Allan McPhail
enjoyed, dinind out is a pleasure and a performance wherever
you stay you are never far from a fantastic place to eat
Berwick-upon-Tweed – Where England meets Scotland
Northumberland ends, or begins, at the Scottish border and
within sight of the frontier is the Marshall Meadows Country
House Hotel (08456 038 892). This privately owned Georgian
mansion has two dining rooms, contemporary-British food style
and the chefs take pride in using fresh, seasonal produce.
In Berwick itself the award winning boutique guest house
No1 Sallyport (01289 308 827) has won numerous plaudits
and accolades from hotel and restaurant critics, whilst the Nearby, the tiny village of Lucker is well worth seeking out
newly opened Cafe Curio (01289 302 666) in Bridge Street for The Apple Inn (01668 213 450) whose menu offers a
has won food awards in its first season. Just outside of sophisticated twist to traditional pub grub whilst The Percy Arms
Berwick, at Allerdean, there is The Plough (01289 387 206) (01668 215 244) at Chatton recently won its ‘Best Bar Food’ title
a traditional Border’s pub whose signature dish is chicken for perfectly prepared dishes featuring local lamb and beef .
stuffed with haggis.
Lindisfarne & Bamburgh – Capitals of Saxon Northumbria
Whilst we’re on the subject of Scotland’s national dish,
Beal is the village where the tidal causeway to Lindisfarne
technically The Cross Inn (01289 386 267) is just over the
(Holy Island) joins the mainland and Barn at Beal (01289 381
border in the Scottish village of Paxton, but the menus
477) is a new ‘open farm’ and visitor centre whose restaurant’s
impressed the regional Local Food Award judges enough to win
menu is a gazetteer of local food. On Lindisfarne itself, the
a gold medal so naturally we had to include it here.
Manor House Hotel (01289 389 207) is open to non-resident
Cornhill-on-Tweed – Enjoy the bounty of the Borders
‘pilgrims’ visiting the island’s early Christian abbey and foodies
Following the border west, The Collingwood Arms (01890 882
hoping to sample the famous Lindisfarne oysters.
424) in Cornhill-on-Tweed is a charming and recently refurbished
coaching inn with a mouthwatering brasserie style menu. Great Northumberland Breakfast
Further up the Tweed Valley is the Tillmouth Park Country House
Hotel (01890 882 255). A candlelit dinner in front of a log fire is
the perfect way to end a day exploring north Northumberland
and as you would expect at this sumptuous Victorian shooting
lodge the menus feature seasonal game.
Following the Till Valley south brings us to the village of Etal with
a splendid castle ruin and Northumberland’s only thatched pub -
The Black Bull (01890 820 200). The Red Lion (01668 216 224)
in nearby Milfield may not be thatched but like its neighbour
serves superb traditional food made with local produce
wherever possible.
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