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Service ✪
Ambience ✪✪
Harbour Lights
101 Lawe Road
South Shields
NE33 2AJ
0191 456 0124
(No website)
[Note: This restaurant was original given a ✪✪✪✪ rating (based on this review in November 2011) but, as happens all too frequently in this region, the chef has moved on, and the place is now (2013) an above average gastropub. John Calton's opened a fabulous gastropub on North Shields Fish Quay called The Staith House, in the former New Dolphin pub. Harbour Lights, upon re-review, is now ✪✪]
Residents of South Shields would be the first to admit that their town is no gastronomic paradise.
It has arguably the world’s best fish and chip shop – Colmans. If you haven’t been there, you haven’t lived, though it’s only open in daytime. Up to now it’s been the only reason for foodies to venture east beyond Gateshead.
But all that’s changed, for, as I exclusively revealed last month, John Calton, the BBC Masterchef runner-up, has upped sticks from The Duke Of Wellington, near Corbridge, to South Shields.
