Three Star Sustainable Restaurant Rating For Battlesteads Hotel in Wark

Battlesteads Hotel and Restaurant in Wark, near Hexham, has been awarded a three star rating from the Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA). The SRA Rating System involves restaurants completing a rigorous survey, providing answers and evidence to 70 questions across 14 areas of sustainability. The SRA then assesses the results and rates the restaurants accordingly with one, two or three stars.

One hundred and fifty restaurants completed the SRA Star Rating in 2011. A further 300 restaurants are currently going through the process or are booked in to complete it in 2012. Battlesteads has achieved Three-Star Sustainability Champion status, which represents demonstrating exceptional all round sustainability, scoring consistently well across every category. The SRA is a national, not-for-profit membership organisation providing more than 600 restaurants with expert sustainability advice through a team of specialist account managers.

Judges commented that ‘Battlesteads is truly exceptional in its efforts towards integrating sustainability throughout all aspects of the restaurant.’ They also noted that ‘Battlesteads also works with local primary schools in the area to teach students about sustainability and has recently begun to provide lunches to the local school.’

This is yet another accolade for the Battlesteads Hotel after they won our campaign to find Northumberland's Best Sunday Lunch late last year. We can't recommend them highly enough and would like to extend a personal congratulations to owners Richard and Dee Slade who have worked so hard since they bought the Battlesteads in 2005.