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Ramside Hall Hotel
Carrville
Durham
DH1 1TD
0191 386 5282
www.ramsidehallhotel.co.uk
Dinner in The Rib Room didn’t start well for Mrs Diner.
“Outrageous,” she spluttered. “Is this in a 1950s timewarp?”
She wasn’t talking about the huge signs in the hotel car park, which would have out-brashed any Harvester Inn. Nor did she mean the tired, swirly carpets, or the strange combination of castellated manor house and log cabin, with its plain vaulted wooden ceiling and heavy Victorian interior.
Nor did she mean the restaurant itself, a cross between Angus Steak House and French brasserie. She was staring at the menu in front of her, mouth agape.