Durham fine dining restaurant launches new £40 menu

Durham fine dining restaurant Faru has launched a new menu to become ‘more accessible’ to diners.

The Michelin-recommended restaurant, located on Silver Street, have launched a three-course menu with snacks for £40.

This goes alongside its signature 10-course tasting menu at £98 and a five-course tasting menu, which is £60.

Faru is owned by Jake and Laura Siddle, formerly head chef and front-of-house manager at Newcastle’s House of Tides.

Jake said: “As business owners we have to adapt to changes in the market.

“We always wanted to bring a more refined dining experience to the city with our tasting menus.

“Although Faru is still going strong, and we are grateful to all the customers who have visited us in the last year and a half since our doors opened, as business owners we also have to adapt to changes and the way people spend.

“We understand we are a restaurant that may be seen as a ‘special treat’ or for an occasion.

“After Laura and I launched a set Sunday lunch menu, we had an influx of bookings, so we knew the time was right to offer a new, more affordable experience,”

Laura added: “We strive to produce exceptional, flavour-led dishes and the new three-course set menu will be no different.

“It will still be the same quality that people have come to know us by and we hope to see familiar faces as well as new ones trying out.”

Dishes will include barbecue mackerel with cultured buttermilk sauce, dill oil, spinach, horseradish emulsion, pickled cucumbers and lime caviar; pork tenderloin, pork belly, miso glaze, celeriac fondant, and celeriac puree topped with pancetta and walnut crumb, hen of the wood’s walnut gel, and pork jus with pickled mustard seeds.

Plus, a dark chocolate mousse featuring a cocoa nib base and passionfruit jelly inside, topped with malt namelaka, passionfruit jelly, cocoa nib tuile and malted barley ice cream on the side.

Pictured: Jake Siddle