A BALMY Barney evening, gone eight o’clock. Doors are open to a couple of pubs, and there are two or three people waiting quietly in socially distanced queues outside the pizza takeaways. But at Babul’s, a gaggle of people has gathered in the shadow of the Buttermarket. There are diners in shirt sleeves on the four tables outside the Indian restaurant, even though there’s a bit of a nip as the night descends; there are a couple waiting for their takeaway collection slots, and there are a dozen of us waiting for tables. During the pandemic, Babul’s has been voted as the best takeaway by readers of the Darlington & Stockton Times and The Northern Echo, it has received a County Durham Together Award for delivering 10,000 meals to key workers and the vulnerable, and it seems to have overwhelmed social media with its posts.
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