The Feathers Inn - Newspaper reviews

The Sun newspaper on Saturday 30th May lists the best pubs in England and we are featured.
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The latest edition of the Good Pub Guide is here and we have been selected as County Dining pub of the year 2009 for Northumbria (County Durham, Northumberland and Tyneside) for the second year running.

Of the awards the Good Pub Guide says

"For 27 years The Good Pub Guide has sought out the best pubs in Britain. Each year we present Awards to those pubs that have reached the pinnacle of achievement in our given categories, hugely surpassing contenders nation-wide"

This is a tremendous honour to us and we hope we can maintain our standards this year and provide the best regional food at pub prices in a pubby atmosphere.
Here is what the guide says about us...

"Overlooking the Cheviots, this comfortably pubby hilltop tavern attracts a good mix of locals and visitors. Three neat bars have beams, open fires, stripped stonework, solid furniture, including settles, and old black and white photographs of local places and farm and country workers; a selection of traditional pub games, with dominoes, bar skittles and shove halfpenny. Small-scale breweries are well represented and might feature Mordue Workie Ticket, Wylam Northern Kite, Hadrian & Border Gladiator and Orkney Red MacGregor on handpump; 31 wines by the glass, a fair range of bourbons and malt whiskies, and quite a choice of soft drinks. They hold a beer festival at Easter with over two dozen real ales (and a barrel race on Easter Monday). Picnic-sets in front are a nice place to sit and watch the world drift by."

The Feathers Inn has been included in the new Michelin Eating Out in Pubs guide 2009.
We are very pleased to be a new addition to the guide book and also very proud to be an inspectors favourite.

The 2009 edition of Michelin’s Eating Out in Pubs guide is launched on Wednesday 3 September, priced at £14.99.

This year’s guide includes 563 of the best pubs serving good food in the UK and Ireland and of these, 84 are new additions (we are one!).

The guide is divided into regions and counties, and each region is preceded by a brief overview of that area followed by a map showing the location of each pub – ideal for planning a journey or holiday.

Every pub has a full page entry with a colour picture and descriptive text giving an insight into its character. Other essential information includes contact information, opening times, location, prices, typical dishes and the beer they serve.

All the pubs in the guide have been selected for the quality of their cooking. However, a number of them deserve a special mention as they boast at least one extra quality that makes them particularly special. This could be the delightful setting, the charm and character, the excellent service, the overall value for money offered or the exceptional cooking. To help identify these we highlight them with our inspectors’ favourites Bibendum stamp. There are 110 of them in this year’s guide (We are one!).

Commenting on the evolution of pub food and its rise in popularity, Derek Bulmer, the guide’s editor said: ‘The standard of cooking in British and Irish pubs keeps getting better and better. We are seeing a growing confidence in our culinary heritage, greater use of local, seasonal ingredients and a rediscovery of regional specialities’.

Good Food Guide 2009

The Feathers Inn has been included into the 2009 edition of The Good Food Guide. This is a very proud achievement for us in our first 17 months.
Now in its 57th year The Good Food Guide is one of Britain’s leading restaurant review. All inspections are anonymous, every reviewed meal is paid for and they don't accept sponsorship, advertising or freebies, making The Good Food Guide one of the only truly independent review.
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