DINING OUT

wo places stood out for us on our visit and are recommended. The locals call The Potted Lobster Bamburgh’s first). Every chef mentioned in a food feature is ‘passionate’ (they’d be something wrong if they were described as merely ‘quite good’) but it’s clear head chef Richard Sim is enthused by, and enjoys working with, ingredients from the surrounding shore and farms. I loved his hake with a lobster and truffle mayo plus fries and ‘Sim’s Smoked Haddock Chowder’.