Wooler Restaurant Guide

An “excellent restaurant” whose “super-friendly welcome” is a prelude to ultra-fresh local shellfish and seafood (the “best we’ve had for years”, according to one reporter), particularly if you go for the “delicious” titular crustacean, which comes in various renditions. Conditions “can be noisy” and, for the odd visitor, the trip “didn’t live up to expectations” given the elevated price, but the majority verdict is that all aspects are “very well done”. The team run a sister venue, The Whittling House, which lies just to the south in Alnmouth, and there’s a younger Potted Lobster spin-off in the Welsh seaside resort of Abersoch, offering catch from the Llyn Peninsula.

“Oh, this is good” – this strikingly designed, two-year-old Anglo-Saxon Museum and Whisky Distillery in the heart of Northumberland has a restaurant that does lunch, afternoon teas and also opens in the evenings at weekends. So far we only have reports on lunch (“light, but excellent… and the whisky is very worth getting to know too”), but they suggest the food offering here is worth exploration and for the evening meal, it’s £60 per person for a ’Dinner and Tasting Experience’.