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18 Claypath
Durham
DH1 1RH
0191 370 9595
www.oldfieldseatinghouse.com
It must tell us something about these post-everything times that nowadays everything we buy has to be described as “authentic”. Nowhere more so than in our restaurants. The words “real” and “proper” are plastered all over menus in the hope of convincing us that we’re getting – what? Something that isn’t fake?
“We’re proper cooks, serving real British food, cooked properly”: that’s the claim from Oldfields, or “Oldfields Noted Eating House” as it likes to be called.
I wonder: what does “unreal food” taste like? Do other restaurants have pretend chefs, rather than proper ones?
