Got family coming up. From Southampton.

Any recommendations for 12?

Ta.

KFC.

Akbars in the Boro.

Do you want somewhere that is less than £4 a pint?

Farrars used to be excellent but has only been average the last couple of times we've been.

The Indian in Whitby Street whose name I can't remember (the one in Bianco's old gaff) used to be top notch but now I wouldn't feed a loid there.

Never ever had a bad meal at Marco Polo's though, but I'm struggling to think of where I will take the wife next time we go out as there aren't any top of the shop candidates jumping out.

Quite strange really as not so long back we had quite a few good restaurants to choose from.

Matteos

Cinnamons

The White Hart

Baan Thai on Church Street is lovely, a bit on the pricey side but they do special nights though. Worth a look all the same.

Take a tent and pitch up outside Verrils for a week till they open

Masala lounge is fooking lush

I took the family to the Poachers Pocket at metal bridge last night, very nice scran they do chips to rival Monkeybutts

I have always been puzzled by the London Pizza. It's basically a Pizza with chips lobbed on top, which is lazy at best but then you get to the London bit? Chips on a Pizza hardly evokes images of Chas and Dave having a knees up. What the fuck has it got to do with London?

Where is Masala Lounge?

And seeing as part of the fun of going out is to have a good drink, how straight are the roads back from Metalbridge, are they at least straight enough to give me a chance of getting the car home without any major dents?

Why, do they advise on the best routes home when you're a bit blaked?

Masala Lounge, although a few on here have said the service can sometimes be slow. I have heard the Indians on the front at Seaton is very good as well. Failing that, the money you've got Dibbs you should be taking them to the Castle Eden Inn!

I think the number one ranked eatery in Hartlepool according to Trip
Advisor is a Chippy in Seaton. Also the people who write on it always strike me as sad fuckers. I remember once looking at a hotel abroad and some hell raiser was complaining of the bar still playing music at 10PM. You're on fucking holiday!!

15 comments and not one from Monkeybutt!

The best restaurants I've been to recently have been The Grill on the Corner in Glasgow and the Ellora in Knowle where I'll be on Saturday.

Been busy Jo Mac

The Flagship, restaurant at the front of the college is very good.

Blue bells at Newton Bewley

or if you want excellence at affordable prices................................................. wait for it................................................................................................................................................................................................................ta da STAGES do the best fish and chips anywhere and a banoffee pie to shut up a big mouthed drama queen, do you like bananas?

Best restaurants in my neck of the woods, Chapters Hotel at Stokesley is first class, Bay Horse in Great Broughton does a great surf and turf and if you want to impress by size of steak try the Club Steak at the Dudley arms at Ingleby Greenhow, a bit further afield and still good food is the Haynes Arms on the A19, just south of the Osmotherly turn off. All worth the trip.

"Lush" you've changed since posting on here

for me it has to be monkeybutts cafe.. you just don't get better..

failing that gadds town house in durham

cafe lilli, norton

Lush where did i pull that from i think i must have had a outer body experience but it is LUSH though

Chef from the white hart has left apparently

Extra chips for you next visit, best fish on Friday and meatballs tomorrow.

Golden gate on groupon

Went for tea on Monday and it was quiet but spot on.

Newcastle, Blackfriars to be more specific.

Don't make them drive all that way - meet them somewhere in the midlands. I can highly recommend a few in Nottingham - The Victoria in Beeston for the best pub scran ever, Kayal for excellent South Indian scran, Marrakesh for great Mediterranean/north African fayre, and Sukho in Beeston for amazing Thai food.

In Hartlepool they'll really appreciate proper fish and chips if they're southern. Take them for a sit down in what used to be Don Bees.

nobody that has any taste buds whatsoever will appreciate bloody fish and chips, no matter where they are from.

FACT.

Honestly, the love and need for fish and chips on this place is fucking nuts.

I am no foodie but even I know fish and chips are rank.

and the usual suspects, please dont come and tell me to try a different chippie.

I dont want to try any of them.

I have never liked chips. And deep fried fish can fuck right off.

I suppose I could hide them in gravy.

Cant go wrong with sambucas in church st, a nice steak in there.

Dead to me.

going to really upset you now.

I dont like Greggs.

Greggs in rank but the dismissal of Fish and Chips is the words of a madman.

Haddock and Chips at the Frying Pan after three away points 'rank' Take him away boys he's a looney.

I am not a loony. Why should I be tarred with the epithet 'loony' merely because I dislike fish and chips?

I've told you where to go, why are you still arguing about it?

Maybe that is a little harsh.

Oddball or social outcast are probably fairer.

I've read one or two (thousand) comments over years suggesting you are slightly rotund. How did achieve this weight without three of the staples of any decent kite Fish and Chips, Gravy and Premium over priced Lager??

Its all lies.

Always has been.

Mainly perpetrated by moisturiser boy and Krusty the chinaman.

I can see your point there, its convenient and I reckon they'd improve football ground catering but its nowt flash.

But don't like chips, I'm not gonna get upset about fish or even chips from the chip shop but how can someone not like chips

Though on the plus side if I went for dinner with you I'd get to have your chips right?

Unfortuantely the Red grill bar at Seaton has just closed down. That would have done you.

I agree with what Pj said earlier (for a change!) the Thai place on Church street is spot on. If it is a midweek meal though you best ring them first to make sure they are open.

Is the Indian Cottage still open these days?