Hardens Guide to the Best Restaurants in Corbridge
Hardens guides have spent 33 years compiling reviews of the best Corbridge restaurants. On Hardens.com you'll find details and reviews of 13 restaurants in Corbridge and our unique survey based approach to rating and reviewing Corbridge restaurants gives you the best insight into the top restaurants in every area and of every type of cuisine.
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3. Battlesteads
British, Traditional restaurant in Hexham
Wark on Tyne - NE48
2022 Review: Claiming to be the only hotel in the UK with its own onsite observatory – and enjoying a location with clear skies, north of Hexham – this rural pub with rooms occupies an eighteenth- century farmhouse and is consistently highly rated all round. The food is mostly superior pub grub, but there is a fancy five-course and eight-course menu too if you want to push the boat out.
4. The Valley
Indian restaurant in Corbridge
Old Station Hs - NE45
This “lovely local Indian” is “a proper restaurant in a converted old railway station” (and also has spin-offs in Newcastle and Hexham). “It’s a favourite to combine with a day in the Tyne valley, followed by a couple of beers, then an excellent curry here”. Book their well-known ‘Passage to India’ for £56.50 per person, including travel from Newcastle, orders taken on the train, meet-and-greet at the station, and your meal (not including drinks).
5. The Rat Inn
British, Traditional restaurant in Hexham
Anick - NE46
Set on the village green in a charming hamlet a few miles from Hexham, a “lovely old inn” with a “warm fire in winter” and a conservatory offering sweeping views over the Tyne Valley. The blackboard-listed cuisine features some “very good local produce, e.g., game and fish” (plus “fantastic steaks”) making it “a favourite” in these parts; it’s been ably steered by chef Phil Mason and FOH wife Karen since 2007, and is the follow-up to their acclaimed former venture the Green Room, which occupied the old luggage office at Hexham railway station.
6. Bouchon Bistrot
French restaurant in Hexham
4-6 Gilesgate - NE46
Loire Valley native Greg Bureau is behind this “well-established and well-regarded” Gallic bistro: a jewel of this “lovely market town” (especially since they added a glass balcony) and long reputed for its “highly reliable” cooking and “tremendous value” sets. Linger over a meal amid vintage French posters and then amble over to the “fine abbey a short walk away”.
7. Hjem
Sandwiches, cakes, etc restaurant in Wall
The Hadrian Hotel - NE46
“Exceptional” ‘new Scandi’-style cooking has won widespread acclaim for Swedish chef Alex Nietosvuori and his locally born partner Ally Thompson at their five-year-old restaurant-with rooms – a 24-seat dining room with open kitchen, “in a beautiful setting in the wilds of Northumberland”, close to Hadrian’s Wall. “The food is created with passion, delivered to the table with unbridled enthusiasm and reveals combinations, textures and flavours which are a sensory revelation”. The couple’s spectacular new purpose-built venue, Frejya, in a walled garden within the Close House estate at Heddon-on-the-Wall, is scheduled to open in late 2025.
8. The Feathers Inn
British, Traditional restaurant in Hedley On The Hill
A “fabulous country pub” that’s been serving the local community for two centuries and sits on a hill in this charismatic village between Hadrian’s Wall and Tyne & Wear. Chef-owner Rhian Craddock was championing local and sustainable cooking long before it was trendy, and that ethos informs the “outstanding menu”, which is full of “quality food at very reasonable prices”. PS – they also sell bakery goods on Saturday mornings, with a pizza pop-up due to return in spring.
9. The Ship Inn
British, Modern restaurant in Wylam
Main Road - NE41
2022 Review: A “super-friendly and efficient” stone-fronted country boozer, where chef Paul Johnson (a Nathan Outlaw alum) delivers a “great menu selection” that saw it walk off with a CAMRA Pub of the Year accolade not too long ago.
10. The Beaumont
British, Modern restaurant in Hexham
Beaumont Street - NE46
“Fun restaurant serving excellent food” from an open kitchen in a classic Victorian hotel in the town centre that has been cleverly modernised in recent years. “It’s a super place to stay, too (and the breakfast is good)”.
11. Pine
British, Modern restaurant in East Wallhouses
Vallum Farm, Military Road - NE18
“This is the future of cooking!” – Cal & Sian Byerley’s “exceptional” converted cow barn near Hadrian’s Wall is one of the most enthusiastically rated in our survey and inspires a good amount of feedback. “It‘s quite small which adds to the occasion”. “While others talk about flying amazing produce from around the world, here we have magic being made from local and humble ingredients” by Cal, with the aid of Ian Waller. “The team really knows how to look after their guests, providing excellent information” and “interacting with the diners to give an immersive experience”. “The unique tasting menu” – £165 per person (£195 per person if you go for the chef’s table) – “is more than likely to stun you with a vegetarian dish (meat, fish and seafood courses are just as delicious, but are used to punctuate a journey as opposed to being relied on). Vegetables and herbs may not sound that glamorous but it is simply the most mind-blowing taste experience!”. Finally, there’s the “incredible wine list” presided over by Vanessa the sommelier, “who offers really well-thought-out pairings and unusual choices (that always come up trumps)”.
12. Freyja
restaurant in Heddon-on-the-Wall
Close House - NE15
Scheduled for a late 2025 opening, a modern Scandi-style restaurant to
be built in the walled garden of Close House in the Tyne Valley, now
part of a golf course. It's from the high-achieving owners of Hjem in
Wall – Swedish chef Alex Nietosvuori and his Northumberland-born partner
Ally Thompson – who will work their magic on produce from the garden and
meat, game and fish from within a 30-mile radius.
13. LANGLEY CASTLE HOTEL
restaurant in Hexham
Langley - NE47
2023 Review: “Suits of armour, spiral staircases, gigantic fireplaces” – this “stunning, preserved medieval castle turned into a country-house hotel” makes a “wonderfully romantic destination”, just “two minutes off the A69 between Carlisle & Newcastle” – “you’d rave about it if you found its like abroad, yet here it is”. “Service is attentive, friendly and professional”, while “the food is extremely good, if not top fine dining”.
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