Oldfields - Durham

It was closed and I think open table should have known instead of accepting the booking.

I have eaten twice recently at oldfields in durham, but many times in the run of the years and buy into their philosophy of locally produced ingredients. I would also prefer to spend money for local independent and not big chains. Unfortunately, the last two occasions were disappointing and a real departure from where oldfields were in my opinion. the quality of cooking is simply lacking, like the consistency. the starter of the lamb cuprole was hardly warm. large delicate meat was great, but there was no care with the dish and it resembled dog food. gray brot was cold and soft the last time I chose cod as the main one I could remember to be overcooked. why do they spoil beautiful source ingredients by simple mistakes? my wife had this time fried tintenfische for the starter. the membrane was still attached, making it difficult to eat, the coating was pappy/mushy and had no cripple. the school of pork. this delicate, juicy meat had been pulled by a joint that had been cooked for a long time, but the rest of the dish was disappointing. three big kartoffels, red cabbage and a dark tasteless engraving reminded me of school. (in less than nostalgic wise) my dessert of eccles cake and ingwer custard sound interesting and quirky, the dish was overwhelmed with ginger aroma, there was hardly any fruit in the eccles cake (a key feature of an eccles cake) and the baked had no tasty taste at all. the chocolate cake of my wife was considered to be unbearable after a mouthful. she described the texture as claggy like pate, lacked crispy and any chocolate to orange salt of the aromes. weine were also disappointing (we had several weeping through the glass) and did not seem well adapted to the dishes in the offer. the whole menu doesn't grab me so that I wanted to eat every dish. I felt underwhelmed by the experience, especially as it cost about which it is not a problem when it offers great tasting.

Although there were two office parties, we had great service that was friendly and prompt. eating is well prepared and the fish cakes were great! we even got a cracker to pull!

This was a revisiting visit during the durham for a weekend during the lumiere art festival. as with earlier places when we ate there, eating in oldfields was excellent and the service and the ambiente was very good. the traditional British foods they serve are appetizers of the pan heggarty with a poched egg and senf sauce, teesdale mutton curry served with fresh crust bread or an excellent lauch and cartoffel soup. the most important courses we chose were huhn served with apple and baby onion sauce, a squealt heggarty, a baked squash with root vegetable cassanmage and pan fried cassanmage served with baby hunting and saphirbutter. there are excellent desserts, including traditional British puddings, especially the sticky toffee pudding, which is very popular. local ingredients are used in many cases. all dishes are presented attraktiw. the personal is friendly and efficient, even if the restaurant is very busy as it was during our visit at the weekend. there is a good wine list and the house wine is available from glass. our only regret is that oldfields is not close to where we live, so we can eat there regularly!

Dined on Saturday November prior to attending Lumiere. Ordered the squid starter and tomato and basil soup. The squid was tasteless and lukewarm, lacking seasoning; the soup was like paste and also too cold; as the server took away the plates she made no mention of the fact we had hardly eaten any. The mains were fine, however; I had the cod and my partner the chicken which she enjoyed. I did mention about the starters when I paid, but the maitre'd only advised she would get the kitchen to be more aware and did not offer to refund so unfortunately we left feeling this was very poor value for money overall.