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Hardens Guide to the Best Restaurants in Middleton Tyas

Hardens guides have spent 34 years compiling reviews of the best Middleton Tyas restaurants. On Hardens.com you'll find details and reviews of 2 restaurants in Middleton Tyas and our unique survey based approach to rating and reviewing Middleton Tyas restaurants gives you the best insight into the top restaurants in every area and of every type of cuisine.

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1. The Orangery, Rockliffe Hall British, Modern restaurant in Darlington

James Close with wife Maria closed his acclaimed Co Durham restaurant the Raby Hunt (a regular on our UK Top 100 list) after 14 years and relaunched in the Orangery of nearby Rockliffe Hall in mid 2024, after our annual diners’ poll had ended. Initially billed as ‘A modern bistro by James Close’, from October 2024 the site has launched new tasting menus – ‘Expresssion’ (£105 per person) and ‘Experience’ (£170 per person) – that aim to take the diner on a ‘global culinary journey’. The ultimate aim is clearly to establish the dining room as one of the best in the UK.

2. TERRA by James Close, Rockliffe Hall French restaurant in Darlington Hurworth on Tees - DL2

James Close shut the Raby Hunt to become culinary director of this five-star property. Completion of a new 584 square metre pavilion with 36 covers is anticipated in the second half of 2026, but while you are waiting, you can sample his cuisine at various pop-ups around the resort, as well as at Café Terra. Reports on the temporary operation say it can seem “expensive in what is a temporary stop-gap location” with food that’s “very good, but not to Raby Hunt levels and difficult to justify at these prices and in this setting (but I expect the new purpose-built restaurant will be fantastic and reach the culinary hit lists)”.