Your Favourite "Regular" Restaurant Ever?

[goalscrounger]

I visited a new, local tapas bar last night and it was excellent. Last night won't be my only visit and I can see myself going regularly. This got me reminiscing about my favourite ever "regular" haunt (Spiros' Restaurant in Redcar). For those who never went, it was an amazing Greek place with wonderful family service (it was ran by Spiros and his family......I believe he is a chef at Virgo's in Saltburn now) with amazing fish and meat dishes. We used to go regularly on a Saturday lunchtime.

Excluding those wonderful "one-off" places that you may have visited while travelling, where is the best restaurant you've regularly frequented?

 

[Colgates_shaving_foam]

Scrann in Norton was a great restaurant. It's closed now unfortunately but we used to go in probably every other week at least.

 

[boroboy6872]

Mike's restaurant Cafe above the fruit & veg shop in Redcar high street

 

[joeydiaz]

Caruso’s in Stockton

 

[rkangel]

Ippudo on Villiers Street in London. I'm a bit of a ramen fiend and the Japanese chef who came over to open the restaurant and ended up staying for 2-3 years was fantastic and, as I used to visit regularly and worked close by, I became familiar with all the staff.

 

[NorthumberlandBoro]

The Delhi Belly van parked on the way to the Riverside would take some beating.

 

[grumpyoldgit]

Used to like Mamma Vittorias on Linthorpe Rd, just along from the Crown. Showing my age, I think it closed in the 90s? Other than that, Kaminaki in Stockton. Sadly that's another covid casualty.

 

[CuddyWifter]

Kaminaki I liked , also Bahai on Linthorpe road- both regular haunts , albeit not haut cuisine

 

[Right footed Left winger]

Regularly use Y'Thai in Stokesley, before then frequented Jamals in Boro a lot.

 

[gregorgregorovich]

I visited a new, local tapas bar last night and it was excellent. Last night won't be my only visit and I can see myself going regularly. This got me reminiscing about my favourite ever "regular" haunt (Spiros' Restaurant in Redcar). For those who never went, it was an amazing Greek place with wonderful family service (it was ran by Spiros and his family......I believe he is a chef at Virgo's in Saltburn now) with amazing fish and meat dishes. We used to go regularly on a Saturday lunchtime.

Excluding those wonderful "one-off" places that you may have visited while travelling, where is the best restaurant you've regularly frequented?

Was Spiros Restaurant the one on Coatham Road many years ago? Another vote for Kaminaki, it was fantastic. At the minute our go to places are the Jolly Sailors or the Arncliffe Arms.

 

[El Guapo]

Cafe Lilli in Norton is my favourite but unfortunately, being single again now, I don’t get to go anymore currently.

 

[goalscrounger]

Was Spiros Restaurant the one on Coatham Road many years ago? Another vote for Kaminaki, it was fantastic. At the minute our go to places are the Jolly Sailors or the Arncliffe Arms.

Yes, that's the one. Not the most advantageous place for a restaurant, but people (including us) travelled from outside of Redcar to eat there.

 

[OnTheDeck]

Jet Miners in Gt.Broughton is our family favourite, always great food and the staff in there are great.

 

[AytonMews]

Kaminaki I liked , also Bahai on Linthorpe road- both regular haunts , albeit not haut cuisine

Yes we used Bahia a lot when it was in the Forbes building. Don’t know why they moved to that massive location on the corner and became a sort of Nando’s clone… didn’t last long

 

[ForssAwakens]

Used to be kings grill in saltburn

 

[AytonMews]

Jet Miners almost every Christmas Eve, and we use whinstone view quite a lot… good variety on the menu, local, nice setting

 

[Juninhoburger]

Central Park...yeah, I know

But it was!

I suppose if you want to stretch the definition of "restaurant" slightly, then The Lion Inn on Blakey Ridge or Mister Chips in Whitby.

 

[BlindBoyGrunt]

Pyrgi in Linthorpe Village (where Olivello is now) was great. Fairly cheap, always rammed, fantastic atmosphere and you could spend your whole night out in there as a 1l carafe of house red or white was a couple of quid. When me and my wife were first starting out and living in the Village, we would be in there nearly every Saturday evening.

Also a shout out to joeydiaz choice of Caruso's in Stockton. Another place with great atmosphere.

 

[Corcaigh_the_Cat]

Peppermill, Station Road, Billingham.

 

[JustTheGent]

The Capital in Durham. Used to be there every few weeks.

It's probably a bit confidential, but we actually took a former Prime Minister there a while back. Was also chatting to Dominic Cummings in there and went for a drink afterwards with him. Don't think he was involved in politics at the time but was certainly plotting to do so by what he was chatting about.