Northumberland's newest fine dining restaurant has added another feather to its cap after being named one of the UK's best by travel magazine Condé Nast Traveller.
Pine was launched in May 2021 and became the second Michelin-Star restaurant in the county in February 2022 when it was awarded a green star for its sustainability credentials. It has gone from strength to strength and this year, launched a Chef's table experience while co-owner Cal Byerley appeared on the Great British Menu.
It has also had a slew of recommendations, having been included in The Good Food Guide - which rated it among its top 20 list of the most exciting restaurants of 2022, and has recently placed sixth in a list of SquareMeal's Top 100 UK restaurants. The restaurant, which is the debut restaurant of Northumberland couple Cal Byerley and partner Siân Buchan, offers a tasting menu with the majority of ingredients foraged from the surrounding countryside or grown within its own garden.
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Of Pine, Condé Nast Traveller wrote: "Very few restaurants go from rumour to Michelin star as fast as Pine. The first whispers came during the pandemic winter, with news that chef Cal Byerley – one-time right-hand man of Simon Rogan and head pastry chef at Lake District favourite Forest Side – had bought an old cattle shed by Hadrian’s Wall with his partner Siân Buchan, a former assistant manager of Newcastle’s House of Tides.
"The timber-and-glass reality, opened last summer, has exceeded even the most feverish expectations. The main dining room – accessed via an industrial steel staircase beneath a roof space of dried wildflowers – is decorated in muted shades of grey, white and conifer green that echo the windblown Roman landscape seen through huge windows.
"The cooking has the same cool northern edge. Byerley – who grew up on a farm a few miles away, and still forages for woodruff, gooseberries and meadow-sweet – has created a 16-course love letter to his home turf.
"Dry-aged lamb comes with a lamb-fat muffin like the bread-and-dripping that once sustained Northumbrians, while the wild leek and Doddington cheese canelé is a dream version of the plate pies that remain a Saturday night staple round these parts. Pine received Northumberland’s second ever Michelin star, just nine months after opening – but the sense of local pride feels more important than any outside recognition."
Pine will find out if it has retained its Michelin Star, or been given a second, at the first in-person awards since 2019 at Silverstone Circuit on March 27. For more information on Pine, visit the website.
To read the full article of Condé Nast Traveller's best restaurants in the UK, click here.
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