Durham Times Leisure - Eating out

Old-style pub with top-end menu

3:18pm Friday 24th May 2013

AN old-style English pub serving up good, old English, hearty grub at an affordable price. Very little could be finer and it is one of the things the atmospheric Hamilton Russell Arms, in Thorpe Thewles, near Stockton does. But it doesn’t stop there.

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Chilton Country Pub and Hotel, Orangery Restaurant, Black Boy Road, Fencehouses

4:50pm Friday 17th May 2013

HAVING undergone an £80,000 refurbishment, it was high time the Durham Times visited the Chilton Country Pub and Hotel and its Orangery Restaurant again.

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The Court Inn, Court Lane, Durham

10:50am Friday 10th May 2013

THE importance of good service when dining out is never more apparent than when you receive bad service.

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Saddlers Coffee Bar & Bistro, 36 Saddler Street, Durham City

11:57am Friday 3rd May 2013

LUNCH breaks went out of journalism at about the same time as hot metal and office ashtrays.

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The Bridgewater Arms, Winston, County Durham

11:32am Friday 26th April 2013

I’M with Vince Cable 100 per cent on this one. The Business Secretary wants to set up a watchdog to sort out the pub companies and their fractured relationships with tenants.

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Bruno's Bistro, 4 Commercial Street, Willington

10:48am Friday 19th April 2013

WHEN Sue Snowdon was appointed as County Durham’s first female Lord Lieutenant, she could have celebrated at any of the county’s fanciest eateries.

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Oro at The Pump House, Farm Road, Houghall

10:12am Friday 12th April 2013

IT’S funny how it’s the small things that stick in the mind.

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George & Dragon, 4 East Green, Heighington, Newton Aycliffe

12:09pm Friday 5th April 2013

IN the South Durham village of Heighington, the locals are revolting. By that I mean they are up in arms, manning the barricades, on the warpath and generally unhappy, very unhappy in fact, about a plan for a Gyspy site on the edge of their village.

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The Top House, Park View Terrace, Voundon Station, County Durham

10:56am Tuesday 2nd April 2013

AS a Durham resident who works in Bishop Auckland, I drive past the Top House pub on Park View Terrace, New Coundon, every day.

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Crinnions of Lanchester, 25 Front Street, Lanchester

11:56am Friday 22nd March 2013

AS previously reported in the Durham Times, Lanchester has seen something of an explosion in eateries over the last two years.

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