Reviews

 See what the press have said about the dining experience at our restaurant.  Please check back as we often receive great reviews!

The Northern Echo, Tuesday April 5th 2005  - Please Click Here to View the review

 
"It was the meal of the year, and the surprise of my life"

-Mike Amos - The Northern Echo - August 2000

"The Dun Cow in Sedgefield is the North East's Best Place for Sunday Lunch."

- The Observer - March 2005

"Food: 9 out of 10"

- The Times - May 2005

"Oven's going to be pretty hot stuff."

- Mike Amos - The Northern Echo - November 2005

"Oven's co-owner and head chef, Tarek Thoma, cut the culinary mustard at nearby Sedgefield's Dun Cow-regular haunt of the Blairs and the focus of much media attention when they popped in for a spot of lunch with George and Laura Bush. Now his own restaurant is compact and bijou with covetable antique style cruet sets and wine buckets to weave a little fabricated history into the contemporary setting. The food is geared towards his market, safe yet demanding:a classic fillet of lamb rubbed hefty shoulders with a cheeky parsnip puree with a texture and form of Mr Whippy ice cream-only far more grown up. Chunks of swordfish, tuna and king prawns were brought alive with a melting,perfumed saffron risotto speckled with tiny sweet mussels."

- The Guardian - March 2006