Stop at nearby Kork Wine and Deli for natural wines to take away (or to drink by the glass on site). Shop At Whitley Bay’s Pure Knead, the cinnamon buns sell like, well, hot cakes, and it’s also great for sourdough loaves and stotties. In North Shields, sip coffee at the Wheel House, then walk over to the Staith House, a dining pub on historic Fish Quay, for refined plates of grilled North Sea halibut with cauliflower puree, black pudding and anchovy butter (£27). In Whitley Bay you can feast on masala fried fish pitta with Persian curry mayo (£10) at Papa Ganoush courgette and feta fritters with chilli and lemon (£8) at Kith & Kin (visit on Fridays to pick up hand-rolled doughnuts from Proven Goods) or a six-course tasting menu (£55, Friday and Saturday) at dive bar-style restaurant The Roxburgh, where Gary Dall, once a chef to big-name rock bands, likes to pair his nose-to-tail menus with music from the likes of the Velvet Underground (£55). North Tynesideįurther north, fill up with 12-hour beef shin and peanut curry (£15.50) or crispy oyster mushroom banh mi (£11) at Omni in Monkseaton or tempura-fried aubergine with honey (£6) at SaltHouse tapas bar in Cullercoats. At the White Hart in Somerton the smallest of eight double bedrooms starts at £76.50 B&B. Stay The Lord Poulett Arms in Hinton St George pairs six stylishly unfussy bedrooms with deceptively modest-sounding menus (doubles from £95 B&B). Don’t leave the area without picking up a bottle of Pomona, Somerset’s answer to sherry, at Burrow Hill Cider Alice Temperley’s father, Julian, has been making apple-based tipples there for decades and her sister, Matilda, makes honey-laced non-alcoholic Somerset Shrubs. For smoked cheese, sausages and fish there’s Brown & Forrest Smokery near Curry Rivel. Detour to Teals, a gleaming new farm shop and restaurant off the A303 near South Cadbury, where the range includes Hurdlebrook’s creamy Guernsey yoghurts and stinky Renegade Monk cheese. Pick up orchard-reared chickens and bags of flower-speckled salad leaves from Hinton Harvest in Hinton St George and locally grown apples and a rainbow of juices at North Perrott Fruit Farm, near Crewkerne. Cider and other Somerset tipples are the speciality of Burrow Hill farm
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