A couple who quit their jobs to open their "dream" restaurant will throw open the doors to diners this week.
Fancy new fine-dining restaurant Faru will welcome its first guests this Friday, promising a seasonal tasting menu in the heart of Durham.
Married Jake and Laura Siddle met working at fine-dining venue House of Tides in Newcastle where Jake, 29, was head chef, with Laura, 30, in charge of the front of house.
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“It was always the dream one day to open our own restaurant and now we’ve took the leap,” Jake said.
“We were thinking ‘we can do this for ourselves’.
“We’ve been working on it for months in the background and we left our jobs at the end of January and since then we’ve been working really hard on getting to open.”
The restaurant on Silver Street in Durham City Centre, which takes its name from the old English for ‘journey’, will be open four days a week.
It will offer a ten-course tasting menu for £98 with dishes including aged beef, crab tart, duck and rhubarb all on the first menu.
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Laura said: “For us its about offering a tasting menu with the best of local and seasonal ingredients.
“We tend to use ingredients that everyone’s familiar with but cook them the best that we can. We just want people to come along, put their trust in us and our ethos and keep an open mind.
“We have been practicing behind the scenes but when we open on Friday that will be the first official service.
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“The restaurant is a good representation of ourselves. We had a vision of how we wanted it to look and it’s come out how we wanted it.”
It follows in the footsteps of rival fine-dining restaurant Coarse which opened in September last year and landed a place in the Michelin guide in January.
Faru will be open from Wednesday to Saturday with an additional lunch service on Friday and Saturdays with the menu designed to last between two and three hours.
The Northern Echo went along to take a look inside the restaurant ahead of it opening:
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