The Britannia Inn in Darlington

Excellent staff all ways welcoming

Such a lovely pub with fantastic drinks, cozy atmosphere and very friendly staff. Open mic sessions are brilliant

Great pub, great atmosphere, and the beer is well kept and served

Popped in for first time footy was on just stopped for 1 drink nice pub

Can't fault this little gem. Good staff and all friendly. Hadn't been before but I'm sure I'll nip in again

Good traditional oldie type pub. Jukebox..pickled eggs.. we should have more of them. First time I've been and not in your main route but this is good traditional pub

Lovely traditional pub, small & cosy with loads of atmosphere, plenty of real beers to choose from, and regular live music -my group practices there midweek, as do a number of others, and I believe there is often a gig on weekend nights.

Great little pub, terrific atmosphere, very friendly and welcoming. great staff, fantastic range of cask ales and gin bar. Would recommend 👌 👍

Omg this pub is wonderful.Good atmosphere very clean and welcoming.Landlady and staff all very friendly.Love it we keep coming back and telling friends about the establishment.

Cosy, compact, comfortable 👍🍺🍺 Real ales served here. Great place.

Great beers, great staff, great place

Great place friendly lovely atmosphere

Love the Britannia. It’s a proper old fashioned boozer. It’s immaculately clean and Wendy the land lady is always welcoming.

One of my favourite pubs in Darlington. Great choice of real ales. Great staff.

Warm and friendly pub. Highly recommended

Good prices excellent jukebox and friendly locals

Lovely traditional pub. Nice atmosphere.

Good atmosphere, good choice of drinks and reasonable prices, and free live entertainment.

Good place for real ale friendly atmosphere cosy in winter with real log fire

Great beer, old school, proper pub

Great pub like a step back in time, great beers and atmosphere

Lovely pub with that warm feeling when you walk in highly recommend

Very friendly staff!! Came in on my own and was made very welcome and also a good range of booze. I would definitely recommend a visit and when I’m back in the area I will be going back.

very nice pub and good barmaid.

We always start our nights out here and we are always well looked after with a great range of beers. Always friendly faces behind the bar

Very friendly and welcoming staff. A good night out

Good traditional pub, friendly staff & atmosphere for a good chat, laugh & catch up with friends & family

Not my thing and quite expensive with not much choice

A diverse & welcoming Inn, with a large outdoor seating area, real ales & live music, situated in the heart of Darlington. This local gem is steeped in history, being the birthplace of J M Dent, founder of The Everyman's Library. He produced high quality literary classics for the people.

Great staff best lager in town spot on

Friendly efficient service and staff

Lovely old school pun with nice real ale on

Decent choice of well kept Ales and friendly staff/owners. Worth a visit if your on an Ale crawl in Darlo

Fantastic pub with great real ale beers, as well as friendly and hospitable staff and owners. Love it ❤❤

Great staff very obliging played our type of music

Three lovely women have managed to create a proper warm welcome this pub hadn't had in years.

Great selection of ales and beers

Great character pub and great real ale. Top choice.

Deserves more customers, cozy little place

Lovely little cosy pub with really friendly staff and regulars and the best pint of Cameron’s strongarm in town. Also John smiths smooth and bass on hand pull with 3 other guest real ales to choose from! Good selection of spirits and everything reasonably priced. Not often u find a pub like this anymore with a great atmosphere and no tv etc. If you like to have a quiet chat and enjoy superb real ale then this is the pub for you!

Very good pint of Bass; quite rare these days, having formerly been a 'regular standby'; on Xmas eve was supposed to shut at 9pm but stayed open until 11pm because there were still customers who wanted more beer; isn't this what pubs are for?

A tad pricey, friendly staff though

Well kept beer. Cosy, no teles !

Great place great lads great landlord and landlady always welcome good beer's cheers Kenny.

Quite a decent little pub. Good atmosphere

brilliant pub. clean. fab. good prices. BUT WHERE IS BEV. barmaid who would put the juke box on and sing along and make us all sing with her. she wears red feathers? BEV you are so missed

It's friendly with a nice atmosphere

Really comfortable. Lots of good beer at good prices.

Cant get a little busy but the staff are friendly and polite and the prices are reasonable

Very noisy place it is small and was full

Warm welcome and lovley people to meet. Great evening

This was nr2 on our list of pubs in Darlington and finished being the best of 5 that we visited. There was a good choice of real ale and the pint we chose was perfect. The pub had a good mix of clientele, and on leaving the landlord thanks us and hoped we had had a good drink. Would easily return and recommend to all as a ‘proper’ old style pub with good ale and friendly service.

Good traditional pub for the quiet drink.in the town centre .bar and snug.beer.larger.real ale and other drinks are always good and available.

Lovely small traditional pub with folk singing on Tuesday evenings

Stayed a few times with work. Rooms are great. One occasion my TV remote didn't work and the heating didn't work. Provisions were promptly delivered but overall would return. Breakfast buffet is good!

Nice selection of beer. Friendly staff. Pickled eggs, too!

Cosy welcoming proper pub. Good condition real ales and a friendly atmosphere

Good real ales and staff who advised me on new brews, small and friendly with a real fire in the winter, like being in a front room - which of course you are!

Great beers and fantastic staff. A lovely warm fire on the go so you can listen to the live music in comfort. A fabulous traditional old snug used by folk singers and domino players, private parties and rehearsals. It's worth a visit.

Terrific traditional pub. No fancy trendy nonsense. Just a small selection of the headline beers and a couple of visitor ales at reasonable. And instead of gastro nonsense just crisps and peanuts. Good company. And on the colder days a good wood fire. Dog friendly. Excellent. Do not tell anyone.

One of Darlingtons little gems.

A very good range of real ales, and friendly atmosphere. One place where you can still play dominoes.

I came in here during my stay in Darlington because I'd read the good reviews on here. Often they don't pan out; but in this case they are spot on--it's a wonderful pub. The ideal bar (but rare) for me is one that sells good real ales, has a nice look to it, friendly staff, and sociable fellow drinkers. The Britannia ticked all those boxes with ease. The lady from Northallerton serving was a most smily and helpful person, who consults a huge tome about breweries to make sure she knows her stuff. She was good-humoured and welcoming--I don't know if she's an owner or an employee, but she's an asset. Other drinkers include you in an easygoing way, in this miniature, perfectly formed old pub, which is really only a stonethrow from the centre of town, so should not be missed as peripheral. I was given plenty of help by all on the best places to drink on my ale trail of the town.

Amazing food friendly staff very welcome lovely garden my family and my self loved the food

Great place staff n customers so welcoming

Just a bit out of town but a pub worth a visit. A local's local but made to feel welcome and the beer we had was well kept. Would come here again.

Great selection of beers at good prices. Friendly staff and regulars...

Great place to go for a drink atmosphere really good

Welcoming staff, and great drink choices.

Excellent old style pub. The home pickled eggs were very nice.

Lou and Amy keep an amazing pub, always welcoming with a selection of brilliant beers expertly kept. Great feeling, great customers too.

Nice friendly place and good beer

Brilliant pub spot on real ales .real fire's friendly atmosphere. Lou n Amy welcome you all.

Proper old-school little boozer. Great ales, including traditional north-east brews and some more 'southern' pale hoppy ones. Cracking juke box that never gets too loud. Canny bunch of locals (with the whiff of friendly eccentricity about one or two of them). OK for our four-legged friends if they're calm. Lou and Amy run the place. You sometimes have to take one of them with a pinch of salt, at other times she's unintentionally hilarious. Regulars are mainly blokes, but its definitely OK for women (blokes with manners). Vodka shelf, and a gin shelf, for those who know what they're drinking in that line.

Good Pub friendly with good real ale

Friendly no-nonsense local. Good ale.

Nice cozy dog friendly good beer

Very friendly, good range of beers

A lovely pub. Friendly staff and customers nice location.

Welcoming, friendly and most excellent beer!

This is an old-fashioned town pub with very friendly locals. The beer was spot on and at good value. The staff were very friendly. Well worth a visit.

Really good Beer and 2 great landladies

Excellent pub staff so friendly best place to be

A very pleasant and traditional pub always friendly serving great real and cask ales.Would recommend a visit to anyone young or old.

lovely, old-fashioned proper pub

It is hard to fault this place- it is like stepping back in time being the only original building in the area. The beer is great, there is a warm wood fire in the winter and a warm welcome throughout the year. Some great musicians frequent the place and there's no trouble because the pub is off the route and radar of the type of people that cause troubleIt is hard to fault this wonderful place.

This is easily the best pub in Darlington with friendly bar staff and excellent land ladies. Who always try to help

Very friendly traditional local. The beer is always spot on and the staff are always welcoming.

Under new management but the same high standards are being maintained. A change of landlord hasn't reduced the quality or range of the ales on offer. Still the same welcoming atmosphere and friendly locals, a must visit pub on the Darlo Real Ale Tour. With three guest ales plus Strongarm and John Smiths this pub really is an outstanding example of how to run a pub in difficult times. Please call in and support if in the area.

A "real" old style pub, wide range of craft ales, wines and spirits plus fantastic home made and cooked food. Friendly atmosphere with welcoming locals. They stock an extensive range of draft beers from IPA's to Ruby Reds, all kept in first class order. Also, a number of local, national and international bottled beers. The pies are a must and home made, try them with the mash and peas. The Burgers are something special, but please us the knives and forks - I didn't and the table bore the brunt 😄. Look out for the old cast iron Britannia tables, lovely to see them in a perfect setting, just don't try and move them!

The Britannia is a great little pub! Recently refurbished and now selling quality food, the surroundings are comfortable and the decor helps to create an appropriately warm and friendly atmosphere! The pub recently re-opened its doors, with new tenants Carley and Colin providing excellent meals ("proper home-cooked pub grub" served most days - noon 'til 8.00 pm) plus tasty snacks throughout the day. The hand-pulled beers, 5 real ales, are always in excellent condition and there's quality lagers, an epic range of world crafted bottled beers, plus a unique range of bespoke spirits always available! The pub is known as a community pub with local residents visiting most days of the week but the quality fare on offer also attracts visitors from further afield. There's always something of interest going on, so the pub is ideal for solo visitors. Whether with family, friends or just on your own, you're sure to receive a warm welcome when you cross the threshold at the Britannia!

I visited here with a couple of mates last week. We were pleasantly surprised. The pub was occupied by a few people so quiet. The landlady served us with a smile and the real ale was perfect. We all commented on how clear and clean the ale was and how flavoursome. We only intended to stop for one but enjoyed the quiet and the nice pint so much that we stayed for another. We will be visiting again soon. A lovely little traditional pub that has not lost its heritage. Fantastic! If the landlady reads this, we thank you very much!

As far as I can remember my experience of the Britannia Inn was as follows. I left 64 Greenbank Road and turned left. Left again, and there it was. Or nearly. The beer was Cameron's Strongarm, or Vaux and it was a quiet pub with a few people in it saying nothing. About 50p / pint. There was a cinema not too far away, and an off licence displaying the sign "Free Beer" which on investigation proved a disappointment. I thoroughly recommend the Britannia but the price of beer might have gone up somewhat since 1977. (The Cinema was the Odeon, showing Close Encounters of the Third Kind...just remebered)