Black Door Restaurant

Express Review on Black Door Restaurant
by Rothbury Resident - written on 25/01/09
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Morpeth's Black Door restaurant has good ambience. The food is an overpriced disappointment. Starters were small and basic (smoked salmon and roasted peppers). The waitress forgot to mention the specials board to us. The wooden platter served game and fish pies were inadequate main courses. The game pie, padded out with potato and carrot, was almost meat free and served with a puff pastry lid that was very similar to those available elsewhere in the town at half the price from microwave pub kitchens! The sweet courses were better presented but tiny and at the end of our late January Saturday evening meal the bar area had become yet another youngsters drinking spot making egress difficult.
My recommendation is try Blackmore's in Alnwick instead-it is more comfortable, no more expensive and having eaten there twice in late January I can confirm the the food and choices are infinitely superior.

Clayton's greatest (959 words)
by - written on 23/03/07 (Very useful, 368 readings)
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The sweeping façade of Newcastle’s Clayton Street has a good end and a bad end. The bad end hosts hideous furniture shops, big-is-best electrical showrooms for people with CCJs and nail parlours. It is a monstrosity of shop frontages raped into a Georgian terrace. The good end fares better. Relatively unsullied by commerce it has retained a grand simplicity in its classical black doors and large sash windows framed serenely in sandstone blocks. Its location too has an air of serenity, surprising given its hop-and-skip proximity to the central station and view over Newcastle’s most well know lane of ill repute. Nestling discreetly within this calm, lays the ...  Read the complete review