Yarm +/- 5 miles

[PaulHogan]

Need a good pub/restaurant in/near Yarm for a lunch sitting that I can take my aged Aunt to on Thusday. Any recommendations (or places to avoid) gratefully received afore I have to resort to pot luck.

[lockhart flawse]

When I took my mother to the Golden Lion in Osmotherly for lunch recently I met someone else I knew who had taken her mother-in-law there for lunch as well.

So sounds like a good place for mothers.

L.F.

[PaulHogan]

Thanks for that.
Anyone else got any endorsements/other suggestions?

[Papoo]

I'd vouch for the Golden Lion, too. A little over 5 miles, but it's a nice little place.

Santoro is always pretty decent, apparently some great value lunches have recently emerged.

85 as suggested, they have a good fixed price lunch menu, nothing great, but good value for money. Chadwick's is now Everly's, and is apparently shocking. I actually thought Chadwick's was poor, too.

Tontine - on the way to the Golden Lion. Always very good. The most expensive, but probably the nicest in culinary terms. P&M, how is the Bay Horse? I could be confused, but I believe it's the McCoys (own tontine/golden lion/couple of others), and I heard that while it is nice, it is now an overly fancy, small portion, style over substance place. I'd like to be wrong, though.

[Papoo]

Pretty exhaustive post there, Sir!

You're right about my status about BBQ stateside. However - born and raised in God's own North Yorks. My folks and a few friends are still in the area, I get back every now and then. Needless to say I'm slightly out of the loop. Room for a BBQ restaurant on the High Street?



ETA: I'm not sufficiently out of the loop that I don't remember the Nazi's on the cobbles handing out ticket after ticket.

Edited by Papoo on Wednesday 16th December 22:02

[PaulHogan]

Thank you for the replies.

I would have said budget - doesn't matter; style - not spicy.

But I've just heard the old girl was rushed to hospital yesterday with a collapsed lung. They've re-inflated it and she's comfortable. So tomorrows lunch out is being replaced with a trip to M&S to buy her a selection of choice nibbles to have instead of hospital food

[Papoo]

Paddy_N_Murphy said:

Papoo said:

Room for a BBQ restaurant on the High Street?

Your Smokin, my spit roasts..... mmmmm

there is a shop let up for grabs and whilst I am a fan of the cuts of Meat old Riggsy keeps in his butchery, the place & hygiene does give me shivers every now and again.

A bloody good butcher would be great.

DAVID RIGG! He still alive? I remember as a kid my mum would be in there buying away, and my brother and I would stand on the high street stare through the doyley curtains at his wife in the living room next door! Is that still the set-up?

A smokehouse back where that crazy guy had a sarnie shop that was up by the travel agent/boyes should do it. Pulled pork/brisket sarnies, slabs of ribs, what's not to like? It'd be the antichrist of the Waiting Room, though.

[taldo]

im a fan of Santoro, used to go quite regular when i had time, but cooking for a living tends to take up most of my free time these days!

[Papoo]

Paddy_N_Murphy said:

Papoo said:

DAVID RIGG! He still alive? I remember as a kid my mum would be in there buying away, and my brother and I would stand on the high street stare through the doyley curtains at his wife in the living room next door! Is that still the set-up?

A smokehouse back where that crazy guy had a sarnie shop that was up by the travel agent/boyes should do it. Pulled pork/brisket sarnies, slabs of ribs, what's not to like? It'd be the antichrist of the Waiting Room, though.

Alive? Oh Yes. Most of him is anyway Nothing has changed with him.
He does do good meat, as in Joints of meat, but his hygiene is how shall we say - 'Agricultural'

I have a 10lb Gammon to collect this week from him !

Crazy guy with the Sandwich shop? you mean Hash ? thats still there.
Nooo, "our" new shop would be Fruit Fayre - the fruit shop thats closed.

Not sure about HASH, same location, but it was under a different name. We would call it 'Gay Rons', because his name was Ron, and he liked it up the batty (supposedly).

Fruitfayre would work. Next to HSBC, if I'm not mistaken? Only memory of that place was getting stung by a wasp who was in there scamming free food.

[Papoo]

Paddy_N_Murphy said:

Papoo said:

We would call it 'Gay Rons', because his name was Ron, and he liked it up the batty (supposedly).

rings a bell ! I used to live out the back in the Old Market.

now that I is all grown up (with a resident Mental) I live on Yarm Road

I am guessing our paths have crossed in the past

I suspect you might be right! Small world ey? congrats, Yarm Road is the road of the accomplished! right until you get to the roundabout! Still, the roundabout always smelt good..