The Good Food Quest :

Chesters Grove Garden Centre

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I usually visit Chesters Grove - Garden Centre in Chester Moor, (on the road to Chester le Street) for my bedding plants, shrubs and fruit bushes. However, I was recently drawn into the coffee shop by the mouth-watering smell[...]

Broom Mill Farm Shop

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REAL CHIPS My wife and I visited Broom Mill Farm Shop near West Auckland, County Durham. We popped in to pick up vegetables for the week and were tempted by the Shepherds Pie and home made chips on the tea room's menu. Always the sceptic, I[...]

Cafe Rouge Durham City, 21 Silver Street Durham, County Durham DH1 3RB

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This blog was never intended to be a vent for negative feedback. From the outset, I decided only the best would feature! Eating places where both my family and I enjoyed[...]

Oldfields Restaurant, Durham City

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Never be put off by a name. Oldfields Restaurant or ?Noted Eating Places? seems to have borrowed a few good ideas from other people to offer a presentable[...]

The Gingerbread Mam-Middleton in Teesdale Farmers' Market

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Looking for a Sunday afternoon filler, we decided to visit the (indoor) Farmers' Market in Middleton in Teesdale. on Sunday the 28th February. It was a freezing cold day so we were relieved when we finally found the entrance to the market. I have to[...]

Royal Fisheries, 48 Baxtergate, Whitby, North Yorkshire

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It?s a fact. Whitby is famous for its fish and chips, or should that be number of chippies? Most famous is the steep stepped ?Magpie? that attracts a long queue even on the very coldest of days. Yes, the Magpie is very, very good, but[...]

Caffé Vivi, 29 Broad Chare, Quayside, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 3DQ

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Saturday 19 December 2009. Remember that dreadful Saturday night when snow traveling down from Scotland fell as heavy as.. well, snow? Along with some friends, we'd booked a concert at Newcastle City Hall and opted for an early evening meal[...]

The Langon Beck Hotel-Upper Teesdale

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Travel the lonely road from Middleton?in-Teesdale, that winds past High Force looking out across the rock and grasslands of Upper Teesdale, and eventually tucked in the corner of a bend in the road, you happen upon a tiny small hotel by[...]

The White Horse & Griffin-Whitby, North Yorkshire

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I should start by saying ?the White Horse & Griffin is a very nice restaurant in the centre of Whitby-North Yorkshire?. We?ve enjoyed several meals here, some with our young children and we?ve always found the food and service[...]

Amalfi Restaurant 148 West Nile Street, Glasgow

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We thought we?d take the children for a pizza and this Italian Pizza house did a pretty decent job. Situated in the centre of Glasgow, the Amalfi restaurant may not look a great deal from outside, but it?s the food that matters and[...]