There were 14 of us for u3a Sunday Lunch today. The Baydale Beck in in Low Coniscliffe near Darlington. We were in the conservatory across the wall overlooking the beer garden. It was a sunny day so it was bright and airy. The food was praised with generous portions and the staff were lovely and…

A huge long table today at The Cross Keys in Hamsterley, 19 of us enjoyed a lovely lunch here so 2 photos required and I remembered before anyone had started eating :). We've been here a few times now and will probably be back next year sometime.

Here we are at The Impeccable Pig in Sedgefield - what an enormous beautiful place and not a bad price for father's Day - £30. We really enjoyed it. Got chucked out at 2.30pm but we'd all finished haha 🙂

We had a delicious meal at The Copper Mine. There were 17 of us but a few of were missing from the photo because they had gone for a walk on this lovely day, as I had forgotten all about taking a photo 🙂

This is a lovely place, plenty of parking when we turned up and an annex to ourselves! It was very posh :). The meal was absolutely delicious, only a couple of roast potatoes but plenty of veg - one of us was really brave and asked for some mash - heehee :). It was a…

A lovely lunch today at Viva Italian Restaurant in Crook. A new venue for us and I think we will be back. We had good service apart from waiting a while for a couple of the desserts. Apologies for cutting a little bit of Brenda off (I obviously didn't check the photo!). I'll let you…

Photos etc will be uploaded nearer to the dates of the events but this is just a little heads up 🙂

We all had a lovely meal and chat on Sunday 15th Feb at The Hammer & Pincers in Newton Aycliffe - there were 11 of us in the end. Some people couldn't make it due to either illness or the snow! The service was excellent and the waitress lovely and cheerful 🙂 We will be…

We had a lovely first lunch of the year here. 16 of us enjoyed our lunch and, after ordering, the meal came soon after - hooray! A small hiccup in that they wanted us to pay in one lump but negotiation took place and we all paid separately (as usual) haha :).

Table one - so many of us (16), we had to have 2 tables! We had a lovely meal and catch-up at The Thomas Wright House. We had the Garden Room to ourselves and the service was excellent. Table two - enjoying the meal. I think we will definitely be back in the near future.

10 of us found our way here to Middleton-One-Row on Sunday, 19/10/25. A few hiccups with starters arriving after main meal came out (bit of a breakdown in communication :)) but all sorted and we really enjoyed our meal.

Lovely meal this last Sunday at The Dun Cow in Sedgefield. We were only 10 members, due to holidays and illness but we had a great time.