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Gilt trip

NORTHERN DELIGHT: Wynyard Hall proved to be a popular meeting place for Edward VII and Mrs Alice Keppe

11:01am Tuesday 16th March 2010

Challenging times – to eat a burger with decorum in what was once the setting for royal assignations.

High Force Hotel, Forest-in-Teesdale

WHOLLY ENJOYABLE: The hotel serves up an excellent Sunday lunch

12:12pm Tuesday 9th March 2010

CLEANLINESS is next to godliness. We were taught as much as bairns, though it didn’t explain why we landed home filthy every night. Perhaps, come to think, it explains everything.

Kneads must

AIMING HIGH:  Staff member Tom Munday makes pizza bases

11:38am Tuesday 2nd March 2010

A £40 voucher, express delivery, proves the lure to a ‘unique, exclusive and specially-created’ experience.

Rustique nailed

BISTRO-STYLE:  Rustique Bistro, Richmond,

10:58am Tuesday 23rd February 2010

The accent’s on French cuisine as the column stays on dry land for a spot of gastronomic Channel hopping.

There’s a rabbit off

CHEAP AT THE PRICE: Henry and Vera Dyson, enjoy at meal at 1964 prices, paid for with 1964 money

11:36am Tuesday 16th February 2010

The builders move in, the Masonic Hall is shuttered, so happily the column plumps for plan C.

Squashed flat

GRAND BEGINNINGS: Taylor’s Cafe, in Lingfield Way

11:45am Tuesday 9th February 2010

From a meal that’s worse than the weather to breakfast fit for a king and some cracking fish and chips.

Como sapiens

PERRY GOOD: Mr Como knew a thing or two about falling stars

11:15am Tuesday 2nd February 2010

The chef may have moved to pastures new, but Seaham Hall is not fading away just yet

Bicycle kick

NEW VENTURE: From left, Dave Brownless, Gary Gill and head chef Matthew Routhwiss

10:11am Tuesday 26th January 2010

Make-do and mendicant, there’s talk of two-wheeled beggars, impressionable cushions and an excellent lunch.

Cold comfort

ICY OUTLOOK: Winter chills at the Scotch Corner Hotel

10:55am Tuesday 19th January 2010

The column may be all adrift but it finds that there’s a Burns Night nip in the air

Punch lines

HEAD CHEF:  Gemma Price

11:52am Tuesday 12th January 2010

Around 2,400 pubs closed last year. Around one reopened. The Column goes first footing.



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