Oldfields Restaurant, Claypath, Durham City
	2:16pm Fri 4 Jan 08
	WE had better come clean straightaway. Bill Oldfield, owner of Oldfields restaurant in Durham, is a personal friend.
	User Rating: 7.4/10
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	The Comet
	1:00pm Fri 28 Dec 07
	THE recent history of the Comet at Hurworth Place, just south of Darlington, has been somewhat chequered.
	User Rating: 6/10

	Sassari, 135-195 Linthorpe Road, Middlesbrough
	1:33pm Fri 21 Dec 07
	THE furore over Middlesbrough's so-called shame as the worst place to live in Britain was partially played out in an Italian café/restaurant called Sassari in the town's Linthorpe Road.
	User Rating: 4.3/10

	Ochis, 30-32 Bondgate, Darlington
	12:32pm Fri 14 Dec 07
	I'M SURE someone will correct me if I've got this wrong but I think Ochis in Darlington is the area's only Caribbean restaurant.
	User Rating: 4.8/10

Jersey Farm Country Hotel and Eaterie, Barnard Castle

2:07pm Friday 7th December 2007

Hearty fare, good value at Jersey Farm

User Rating: 7.4/10

	The Abbey Inn, Byland Abbey, Coxwold, Thirsk
	11:52am Fri 30 Nov 07
	WE are sometimes asked whether our reviewers make allowances for establishments having an off night, when the owners are away, the chef's gone AWOL or a coach party from Doncaster has dropped-in unexpectedly.
	User Rating: 8/10
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	The Manor House Hotel, West Auckland, County Durham
	12:32pm Fri 23 Nov 07
	IF you don't live near the large village of West Auckland you may only have heard of the exploits of its football team in winning what was arguably the first world cup.
	User Rating: 7.8/10

	Stone House Hotel, Sedbusk, near Hawes
	12:43pm Fri 16 Nov 07
	THERE is nothing like sinking into a comfortable sofa beside a log fire after a superb meal and being served with coffee and chocolates.
	User Rating: 4.8/10

	The Old Deanery, Minster Road, Ripon
	12:23pm Fri 9 Nov 07
	WHEN I was little I had a spoon and pusher - a sort of cutlery aid that assisted the transition from feeding with one's fingers to a proper knife and fork. Mine, I recall from my Enid Bylton 1950s' childhood, were silver (EPNS, I am subsequently informed). Today they'd probably be plastic - but still a useful right of passage into the grown-up world of knowing how to hold one's cutlery.
	User Rating: 8.3/10

	Starters, 99 High Street, Yarm
	2:56pm Fri 2 Nov 07
	MANY'S the time I've heard people say they'd be happy to have two starters and a pudding rather than stuff themselves with a main dish.
	User Rating: 3.3/10

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