The Whittling House
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The Whittling House

A stylish small hotel and restaurant on Northumberland Street, praised for its breakfasts, Sunday roasts and genuinely excellent fish and chips.

Address:

24-25 Northumberland Street, Alnmouth, Alnwick, NE66 2RA
Call:
01665 463001

Hours:

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Good to Know

The Whittling House is a restaurant with rooms on Northumberland Street, a five-minute walk from the beach. It's the sister restaurant to The Potted Lobster in Bamburgh, from Alnwick-born chef Richard Sim. Downstairs there are wood-burning stoves, a bar with real ales and local gins, and a menu that leans on local seafood and Northumberland meat. Upstairs there are ten bedrooms, many with sea views.

Why it's on our list: it's widely regarded as the best place to eat in Alnmouth, rated around 4.6 out of 5 by hundreds of OpenTable diners, and it's dog-friendly, which matters to us.

Worth knowing: it's popular with locals as well as visitors and can get very busy, so book ahead, especially for Sunday lunch.

A Little Note From Heather & Sand

We haven't quite made it here ourselves yet, but it's on our list!

We're working our way around Northumberland, personally visiting and reviewing as many of the places featured in our Listed section as we can. It's a tough job, but somebody has to do it.

In the meantime, we do our homework. Before adding somewhere to Heather & Sand, we research it, look at what other visitors have to say and check that it has a good reputation. If the feedback isn't encouraging, it generally doesn't make our list.

Of course, a little online research is no substitute for muddy boots, a decent coffee and seeing somewhere for ourselves. So until we've visited, we'll leave the personal review to one side.

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