Forget pub crawling

You're supposed to start the new year off watching what you eat but circumstances led us to visit 3 restaurants in 2 days. The first being Danielle's in Hexham. Ran by an over-enthusiastic Italian fella, he loved touching my shoulders as he put down my lamb shank which was a treat in its red onion gravy! The next day we went to Uno's for lunch on Newcastle Quayside, it used to be the place to go. In contrast to Danielle's, they were a bit unfriendly when we asked for a table for 5 as if we were putting them out. The food is bog standard, bog being the operative word. For dinner, we went off to Zeera's in South Shields, a contemporary Indian restaurant. A great menu (away from the norm along that street), especially the fish. The lamb should be so tender in my Pasanda but wasn't, I would still go back though to try the fish. They did try and keep the change from the bill at first, a misunderstanding...mmmm.