We were delighted to be recommended in the Sunday Telegraph Stella magazine published Sunday 8th January.
‘If you’re after a room with a view,pick the conservatory;it looks out over the Inn’s pretty garden and the Tyne Valley beyond..’
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We are delighted The Rat has been included in CAMRAs latest publication Great Britsh Pubs. The guide is written by acclaimed beer writer Adrian Tierney-Jones, who also wrote ale bibles The Big Book of Beer and 1001 Beers You Must Try Before You Die.You can read more from Adrian here.. The guide focuses on more than… read more
A DELVE through the pages of the eagerly awaited, newly-published Good Food Guide 2012 uncovers a thriving culinary scene in the North East. Each year the Which? publication is rewritten and compiled from readers’ feedback and anonymous inspections. Elizabeth Carter, consultant editor of The Good Food Guide, says: “Dining in the North East is flourishing… read more
Two talented musicians from the Pacific Northwest of the States are visiting the region this week.Expat from Northumberland Wally Bell and highly regarded Vashon singer songwriter Steve Amsden will be playing at pubs in the region. Wally grew up in Northumberland( his father was one of the Pitmen painters )and began playing at clubs in the region at a very young age.He attributes… read more
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Brilliant pub lunch recommendation for the Rat in the Sunday Telegraph published 24th September 2010.. ‘Classic menu using local ingredients and a good choice of ales. Various stories about how the name came about’.Read More here
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The views, the food, the views… if you want terrific food in unbeatable settings,Jay Rayner chooses his favourites and we’re one of them! ‘This charmingly named country pub offers solid British dishes – braised beef in Allendale bitter, Northumbrian sausages with bubble and squeak – and a fine view across the Tyne Valley’.Read the full… read more
August 23 2009, Sunday Times ‘The Story’ Anick, nr Hexham, Northumberland There are numerous stories about how the Rat Inn got its name. Dating from 1750 or so, the building might be the place where the ‘largest rat ever seen’ was caught; or it might be where a former innkeeper informed on locals during Jacobite… read more
Jan 31 2009 by Dan Warburton, The Journal Journal THE owners of a Northumberland pub have won a place on an exclusive list of fine dining halls. Karen Errington and Phil Mason have been in control of The Rat Inn, in Anick, near Hexham, Northumberland, for little more than a year. But in that time,… read more
Apr 4 2008 by Geoff Laws, The Journal. The Journal THE Green Room was a top-notch restaurant. When I heard it had closed, I regretted not going there more often, then, joy of joys, the grapevine stretched its tendrils my way and told me The Rat at Anick near Hexham in Northumberland had been taken… read more
Published on 20/03/2008, Hexham Courant \’The article\’ STOCKSFIELD’S most famous son Rowan Atkinson returned to his old Tynedale haunts on Saturday. The Mr Bean star is understood to have been at a family gathering in Corbridge before eating at the Rat Inn at Anick where his fabulous £750,000 McLaren F1 car in the car park… read more
Feb 8 2008 by Alastair Gilmour, The Journal IN TRUE Two Ronnies style, it’s a happy new year from me and a sun nien fai lok from him. The Chinese New Year began yesterday and ushered in a period of celebrating ancestral spirits, honouring family unity and anticipating a happy future. As this is the… read more
