Welcome to the Old Glen House at Shipley Glen

Special Notice: We will not be serving food at The Old Glen on Mondays for the next 4 – 5 weeks.

Here at the Old Glen House (OGH),we pride ourselves on trying to make your visit here a true excellent quality dining experience. We aim to accomplish this by serving excellent quality food cooked with predominately local ingredients with flair, passion & imagination.

David Carr, The Landlord (formerly trained at The House of Lords, The Angel at Hetton and Slaley Hall (to name a few) is most at home when he is hands on in the kitchen putting his “nearly 20 years” experience in 2 rosette establishments into practice., but you will also see him behind the bar, or in his scruffs doing day to day maintenance.

We also aim to offer fantastic service from the moment you walk through the door to the moment you ask for and put on your coat to leave. The old glen house is both warm and cosey (now we have had our central heating system overhauled and updated) and with the background music, candles lit throughout the day & night and the log burning stove crackling away in the background.

We have a wonderful beer garden around the back of the pub along with Tallulah our BBQ built into the engine compartment of a converted London black cab, she even comes complete with “Dave the driver”.

We are situated at the end of Shipley Glen, so a walk before or after Lunch / dinner to either build up an appetite or walk it off.

The Old Glen House is justifiably proud of the food we serve and we are constantly searching for the best quality locally fed and reared meat products and the finest and freshest seasonal ingredients.

For our meat, the business relies on one of the best traditional family butchers in the region, we have developed and cemented supply partnerships with Yorkshire farmers, many of them right on the doorstep.

Fresh fish comes direct from sea-to-table via one of the UK’s best-known independent suppliers of quality fresh and frozen seafood. Inshore has grown from being a small processor to become one of the north-east’s leading seafood wholesalers.

Head Chef David Carr explains:

Our whole philosophy is to develop and cement local supplier partnerships, allowing us to hand-pick the finest quality meat products from recognised British breeds. It also gives us a much greater degree of hands-on control over the whole supply process – coupled with full traceability. It’s all about keeping down food miles – this, of course, also minimises the stress on animals – and helping to rebuild and renew local economies and communities by encouraging people to produce and purchase food locally. We hope to establish our own field-to-plate partnerships with local farmers in the future.

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