Durham Ox in Erewash

I've had this place on my to go eat list for years ! We had a fantastic Sunday lunch ! Very tasty outstanding food . I will be back to an evening meal at some point soon ! I highly recommend the Durham Ox .

Valentines meal, we choose the chateaubriand sharing menu which was absolutely stunning, our compliments to the chef!

Chose off the lunch set menu which was good value for delicious food and good ambience. Good service and lovely table by the fire. Always consistently good and friendly staff.

The lunchtime special menu was rather limited but helpings were generous and the food was high quality and delicious. The setting and overall ambience were great. We'll return.

Excellent as ever, the Ox never disappoints! We had the 2 course set lunch menu which was really good value.

Fantastic food and service as is the norm in this establishment, book now to try for yourselves.

First time at the Durham ox what a fantastic place beautiful Sunday great service would definitely go again.

Lovely pub and lovely food with very friendly staff

We always have a great time here, one of our favourite places. Thank you and Thank you for our anniversary desserts !

Excellent food choices with exception of vegan dinner who had no choice but a salad which was disappointing.All other dinners well catered for and good quality food served to everyone. Lovely pub overall. Hoping for better vegan choices on our next visit ???

A most enjoyable quiet (ie. no muzak) lunch with friends. Unhurried but efficient service with excellent food.

Went for a quiet lunch for two. It was perfect, warm and friendly service, nice ambience, delicious food. I can recommend the Ox Seafood Platter.

Delicious Sunday lunch, exemplary service and cosy atmosphere with a lovely fire.

Excellent food as always. Will never tire of this wonderful place!!! :)

Excellent food , great friendly service , fantastic value for money , would highly recommend.

All ok, but please refrain from adding the service charge. It’s embarrassing (for yourselves) when asking for it to be removed.

One of our favourite places, the food is really good quality and extremely friendly staff.

First visit after several recommendations and it did not disappoint! Fantastic food at a very reasonable price, great service, perfect for a special occasion

Absolutely Fabulous Highly recommend the seafood sharing platter but you need to be hungry. Staff were amazing despite being so busy. Really good value for money compared to a famous name we’ve dined at recently too

Perfect place to say goodbye to the old with great food as always, wine and service. One of our top ten 👍. Happy New Year all.

Outstanding in every respect. Located in a lovely spot, with ample parking spaces at the back of the pub. Amazing vibe inside and very cheerful servers who made us feel welcome. Incredible food and a wonderful wine list. We will return.

Highly recommend dining at the Durham Ox at Crayke. Staff were very welcoming, service was professional, atmosphere was warm and comfortable and the food was well presented and tasted great. Good choice of dishes and we'll prepared. Would definitely come back for a special occasion. A lovely place to come for a treat

A lovely meal and our young waitress was so warm and attentive, it made our experience really lovely, thank you

Our first visit to The Durham Ox, the food was lovely and a really nice ambience, we would highly recommend to friends.

Had a lovely meal here on Boxing Day. Busy but well managed by the staff. Food was excellent But price has gone up a bit.

Lovely atmosphere. Great Service. Unbelievable food. Thank You!

As always, an excellent lunch in good company - we love going there and will be back again soon

Delightful and very tasty early Christmas meal for my wife and I amongst friendly staff and fellow diners. Couldn’t have been better!

We had a very enjoyable meal with excellent service. A great atmosphere and friendly staff. Thank

Tasteful Christmas decorations and ambience. Great service, food excellent. 3 of us had the sirloin steak which was perfectly cooked. My favourite, local eating place. Midweek early dining is great value for money and a great dining experience.

My favourite lace to eat , food excellent could die for the Scollops and the grand Marnier Craps , first time we have had Sunday lunch but will go Again . I said if it was your final meal of your life it would be here I picked to have it thank you for excellent meal

As always a wonderful visit to the Durham Ox. Cosy atmosphere, attentive service and a superb menu. The food and wine were all excellent and I look forward to my next visit.

Friday lunch, service, food and ambience absolutely fantastic!! Thank you for a memorable afternoon, we highly recommend the Durham Ox !!

Excellent lunch, great service and good menu choices. All good and would recommend.

Always a great place to have lunch. Fabulous, friendly, helpful people on the team and the ambiance is everything you'd want from a traditional country inn. We had set menus and they were very good indeed, and there's pretty much everything on the main menu that anyone could possibly desire. It's a top quality place.

The Durham Ox is always one of the places we look forward to eating at whenever we are in York. The service and the quality of food are always of a consistently high standard. The atmosphere is warm and friendly so we are always made to feel at home.

Excellent lunch, good service (although young lad did confuse turkey and pork). Wonderful touch with deserts for the birthdays we were celebrating - already booked for March next year.

The food was as good as ever, it is the start of Christmas bookings so the service was slightly slower than normal. A very enjoyable evening!

A really lovey evening as always. Food & service fabulous. Thank you very much!

Great meal, celebrating their 25 year anniversary. A nice menu. good food, cooked well. Lovely cozy pub, which looked extra special with the Christmas decorations and lights!

2nd time to the Durham OX. It was so good the 1st time we brought friends with us this time. Service is great. Very attentive staff. Atmosphere is comfy and cozy. Food is fantastic. The destination is about a 40 minute drive for us but absolutely worth it. I highly recommend anyone going for a visit. I look forward to our next one.

Great food and service as usual. Very attentive staff.

The food tasted amazing, service was very quick and efficient. We had a lovely evening!

A pleasant evening, very attentive staff and good food.

It was our first visit to the Durham Ox at Crayke and it didn't disappoint. From start to finish a most enjoyable experience so much so that I've booked a table for lunch in December. Polly Graham

Warm sincere welcome on arrival and outstanding ambience service and quality of fayre

Lovely menu with a wide choice of Specials too. Excellent and delicious food. 3 of our party had the Ox Seafood Platter which is superb!! Good selection of beers and Cocktails and a good Wine list. Overall Very Happy (oddly we are back again next week!!!)

We visited today for Sunday lunch and we think this place is amazing. We were greeted and served by friendly and polite staff, they made us feel really welcome. 2 of us are coeliac so we need to have gluten free food, they were very knowledgeable about this. The food was delicious and really high quality. I would definitely recommend.

Had y brother's Golden Wedding lunch at the Durham Ox at Crayke. Food and service were excellent and it is a very pleasant place to eat. Good value for money also. Would thoroughly recommend for a special event.

We had the most wonderful meal and dining experience here for a family celebration. The food was exceptional, we had 3 courses and each one was of the highest quality. We travelled from Leeds and we’d heard good things about Durham Ox and our time there surpassed all expectations. Fabulous and attentive staff. Hats off to the chef. We’ve dined at Michelin star restaurants all over and this was on par for quality and presentation. 100% recommended and hope to return in the future. Thank you, Durham Ox!

Excellent service from the moment we walked through the door, we would love to return.

Wonderful ambience service and food menu was excellent

Friendly and attentive service, Sunday lunch was excellent. Our dogs were happy too!

A real gem. Thoughtful menu with some delicious options. Great professional service. Fantastic food

What a fabulous experience everything was wonderful m, especially the staff. Food was very nice and we believe good value. We will certainly call again if we are in the area. Thank you for a lovely experience.

The food here is great as is the service and the decor The only thing that struck me to be a little disconcerting was that our waitress’s fingernails and make up didn’t conform to standard Food Hygiene rules- ie. fingernails kept short and unpainted and minimal face makeup Her nails had to be WELL OVER 1” long (not to mention the eyelashes )

The best Sunday dinner ever… fabulous experience from start to finish, delicious food, great atmosphere and immaculate service. Highly recommend!

Excellent service and good as always - reliable place!

Just outstanding. Everything you’d hope for from a pub lunch, but delivered to perfection. Have been doing a run of guide Michelin places with my partner, my 10yo has picked up a keen interest and so I told him we could give the Ox a try, as he properly loves steak. And so we all headed there for lunch today. Shared a couple of starters - deep fried prawns with Asian salad and deep fried goats cheese with hummus peas and mint iirc - and they were tremendous. Goats cheese, light and airy, beautiful flavours, and the peas (etc) worked superbly with it. Mains of ribeye (small man), duck (me), mushroom burger (partner) and again all of them were bang on. Small man said it’s the best steak he’s had, and the odd it he gave me was superb - melt in the mouth, good whack of chargrill, beautiful. Duck likewise! Service beyond superb throughout. Attentive, friendly, helpful. Chose not to bring the dogs, but offers some dog friendly tables 🏆 Really lovely experience, 100% would repeat.

Excellent food and service, great house champagne and claret

Very highly recommended, excellent food, lovely location, very friendly staff, will definitely be going again. Lovely place to have a 30th wedding anniversary meal 😊

Fantastic food Fresh and flavourful . Steak cooked to perfection!! Desserts to die for!

Gorgeous pub in a stunning location. Great parking. Lovely staff. Interesting menu + local specials.

What a lovely evening! The food was fantastic, the people were so kind and nice. Thank you for making our evening so memorable.

Fabulous meal once again, highly recommend. The food and Service was wonderful.

This was my favourite tapas so far, very tasty and menu varied and thank god no chilli.....as usual the staff were super friendly and it was a pleasure to dine there

As always friendly service and excellent food. We took our dogs this time and they were also made to feel very welcome.

Famous old hostelry is enormously popular. However it's not cheap. Sunday lunch at £25 is a bit steep. Delicious local roast beef. Delicious gravy/jus. Rather small Yorkshire pudding. The roast potatoes were rather hard and, although the vegetables were good - especially the honeyed carrots and cauliflower cheese - the portions were small and not really enough for two people. Marvellously retro Crepes Suzette rounded things off in style. When the ice cream hit the Grand Marnier it was sheer bliss. Attentive service from the young staff and dog friendly. The Ox is an old favourite for a treat.

This is a great spot. Went for our wedding anniversary. Super friendly service and the food was excellent. New menu yesterday and couldn’t fault it.

Enjoyable meal for 6 in the main bar area; our guests really liked the feel of the room...except for the musak, which should have been more background... so don't sit under the speaker in the corner.

We had a fabulous Sunday lunch at the Durham Ox which we have been promising to go to and my word it certainly did not disappoint Such a lovely place and the food is exceptional Highly recommend and cannot wait until our next visit

Very good pub food. Not an overly extensive menu but everything was very well done.

On a really busy Friday evening the staff were really friendly, knowledgeable and attentive. The food was lovely and there were plenty of choices. It was just a really nice evening all round. Would definitely recommend. Lovely buzzing atmosphere and great food. Definitely worth a visit.

The pub is beautiful and the food was tasty, however the roast was on the expensive side and we found it fairly average. That being said the starter and the desert were very tasty. Only 3 stars for the service as we were not provided with a wine list (the wines are on a board on the wall but this was not visible from our table and we weren’t aware of it until we saw it when leaving) when I asked for a recommendation for a glass of wine, I was advised to go for the Malbec, which unbeknownst to me was the most expensive wine, coming in at £16 for a large glass and it was not a particularly nice. Besides this, the service was good.

Excellent Sunday lunch, staff were very attentive and friendly. Perfect way to celebrate a birthday!

Spent four nights on holiday in the area, and went to the Ox twice, once for Sunday lunch and once unbooked for evening meal. Excellent food both times, and staff friendly and welcoming.

Myself and my partner had a Sunday roast each here yesterday. We both had pork belly starter which was absolutely gorgeous and cannot be faulted. I had the roast beef lunch whilst my partner had the lamb. Both our dinners were nice but the roast potatoes felt like they’d been re-heated after being left standing for a while. I had a couple of Peroni’s and neither of us had desert but the bill still came to £97. The starters were £11 each and as I say, we couldn’t fault them but £25 for a roast dinner seems and was steep for the size of meal we received. They were tasty but I don’t think they were £25 tasty. The place itself is a nice setting and the atmosphere was decent, though.

Really disappointed with the service , felt rushed throughout, food arrived before our drinks. Service just not that friendly

Top notch gastropub food in pleasant spot. Pricey but overall food excellent.

The Chataubriand was delicious and the accompaniments lovely too. We asked for it to be cooked ‘medium’ and I was just a little too rare, but not enough to complain. I also thought that a simple rocket and parmigiana shavings side salad would be better suited than the ceaser salad it came with which was too overpowering. A lovely meal out though. I was too full for dessert!

Love this place, always a fab experience. The service off our waiter last night was fabulous!

Always a fabulous place to eat. Great choice of delicious food and plenty of drink options. Staff very friendly and such a lovely atmosphere to spend time with family and friends.

Very nice food in a beautiful pub in a superb country location. Excellent value menu with a huge variety of dishes. A quiet day so the ambience was lacking. Staff were professional and polite, but not particularly engaged - a bit perfunctory, but maybe it was an off day for them.

Fabulous food in a lovely pub with helpful efficient staff. Really enjoyed the experience.

When looking for a quality dining experience, the first place I think of is the Durham Ox, and our supper yesterday evening did not disappoint! We received a warm welcome and unobtrusive yet attentive service. There is a lovely wine selection (also by the glass) and delicious food! My friend and I were celebrating her birthday and enjoyed a wonderful fish platter, with the addition of Lobster Thermidor. Utterly scrumptious! I’m sad we didn’t have room for pudding but will certainly be returning. Keep up with the great service. It’s great to see Michael continuing to set the bar with his friendly and hospitable team.

Amazing food with lovely, friendly staff. We will definitely be back and would not hesitate in recommending this lovely place to eat!

Gorgeous country pub with outstanding food. We came for a Sunday roast which was delicious.

We had an excellent meal, the food was very good, the service outstanding! The only criticism was the music which was too loud, the place was full of diners and that added to the sound level. I would recommend this venue though

Lovely country pub, and much more! Great traditional charm and brilliant food menus - with an amazing value set menu at lunch. We had a fab time, the staff were lovely, helpful. And we weren’t rushed, it was a lovely relaxed atmosphere. Would 100% visit again!

Deeply disappointing evening having attended with old medical school friends from Edinburgh. Had booked the table well in advance and specified a table in the bar. Have been going to the Ox for nearly 40 years and in that time a fairly regular customer.Sadly was seated in the orangery. Maybe the answer is not to attend during the week and opt for the weekend?! If Paul had been in attendance this incident would never have happened ☹️ MP

We have been before to The Durham Ox and we always enjoy it. This was a midweek lunch visit. Food generally good as are the surroundings and ambience. Staff good but a little rushed this time and could hear constant personal 'chats' near the kitchens. Fair price. One thing which I think does need looking at are the toilets which are dated and need attention. The gents urinals certainly need a refurb. However, overall nice surroundings and good food at a reasonable price.

6 of us went for Sunday lunch to celebrate my husband's birthday. Absolutely fantastic service, the staff couldn't do enough for us. There was a good choice on the menu and the food when it arrived was top notch. food was hot, well presented and full of flavour. I can't recommend this restaurant highly enough. A little gem in the heart of Ilkeston. No wonder you have to book early to get a table!

Food excellent and staff very helpful, our go to place if we want somewhere nice to meet friends

Had to wait over 1 hour between starter and main course, little bit on the noisy side. The sea food platter was not as good as the Jolly Fisherman’s platter at Craister.

We were very surprised at how busy it was for a Tuesday evening and did have to wait a bit before we were acknowledged and it did seem as though the lady could not find my booking but then we were shown to a lovely round table with very comfortable seats things improved rapidly, we were offered water and drinks and then given time to peruse the menu and special boards. The food was amazing and all three of us were very happy with our meals the service was also very good and very friendly with a bit of banter which we loved. We will definitely be returning in the not too distant future.

Sunday lunch for two, on our first visit. We were greeted and promptly taken to our table in the far room from the entrance. Sunday roasts and desserts were very good, as expected given the reviews. The room lacked the ambiance we saw walking to our table and then realising we were the only table for two with two larger family tables which made the occasion not so enjoyable with high noise levels. Unfortunate, and if we return we will ask for suitable seating.

Went with my husband for tapas. This restaurant sells out regularly on tapas evenings so booking is essential. The selection was decent, along with full bar service and wine list, All good is prepared by the chefs at the Durham Ox, reasonably priced for what is offered. Great service, tasty food, lots of choice. Look forward to the next tapas night.

Went for 10th year anniversary weekend, to which they fitted us in fairly last minute. Bar and waitress staff are so polite and the food amazing. How can you not go back. We had a great night

Very good service and excellent food - fish seems to be done exceptionally here.

Improving vegetarian and vegan options. Excellent service