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20 Grange Road
Darlington
County Durham
DL1 5NG
01325 483 787
www.trufflerestaurant.co.uk
There is something wonderfully defiant and old-fashioned about a restaurant with a proper cheeseboard.
To me, it shows that the place really cares for its produce (maintaining a good cheese board is both a science and a labour of love); it forces front of house staff to really swat up on the subject (you can’t just invent the names on the board – well, you could, but one day you’ll be caught out by a real fromage-fancier); above all, it offers customers like me a serious treat at the end of the meal, a journey of adventure with unexpected flavour bombs enroute.
As an unreformed cheese addict who finds himself rather underserved in our region, this board was the first thing I spotted as we sat down to dinner at Truffle in Darlington. I took it as a very good sign indeed.
I was mostly right.
