The Food Pit in County Durham

We arrived and were seated straight away. The seats are not all the comfy (like a picnic table and benches) ordered our food. The food took around 20 minutes to be cooked. Lovely choices for family of all ages. Food was lovely also. Staff where friendly and prices were affordable. Will be back again to try something different.

We visited here as my partner and I both fancied something different for tea. The staff were friendly and told us how the place worked with the different vendors. It was easy to order at each vendor and you are given buzzers for when your food is ready. I had the parmo bun from one vendor and my partner had a doner pitta and 10" pizza from another. Both meals were lovely, hot and fresh. Overall, good value for money and a great place when you can't agree on what cuisine you'd like 😁

Went to the pizza place and got a kebab, pizza and chips. All very tasty and good value

Great food and service the fries were great and the waiters were so friendly and polite

After a meal at the food pit i felt very ill, i do not recommend going there.

Excelente elección de comida de todos los diferentes proveedores, realmente es algo para todos allí. Pensé que podría ser un poco ruidoso y ocupado para ir con los niños, pero se lo pasaron muy bien. Los cócteles son baratos y buenos. Tamaños de porción sustancial y gran valor. Buena selección de helados para terminar. Sorprendido de lo mucho que disfrutamos aquí!

Great service atmosphere and food a hidden gem 💎 I would say I hope it gets more popular and opens more of them

Didn't have a meal so cannot give a great review but what we had was nice and service was good as the venue appeared to be quite busy

He estado yendo aquí por más de un año ahora regularmente y es increíble Me encanta la idea de que el personal es tan dulce y explicar todo tan bien no podría recomendar este lugar lo suficiente, deliciosa comida y ambiente acogedor limpio!

Greek restaurant awful . The chicken was lumps of nothing that resembled chicken. Truly bad

Gran comida, gran relación calidad-precio, buen servicio lo recomendaría y sin duda estará deseando volver y tener algunos diferentes

I have been there great atmosphere they give you a buzzer and when the buzzer goes off you go to the counter to collect you dish there is lots of options as well I don't know how much it cost but whatever the price was it was worth the price I Highley recommend The Food Pit

Greek food was poor. Couldn't even chew the pork. Had to admit defeat and just leave it . Waste of money. Real shame

Loved it great vibe food spot on staff totally on point Great place for social's booked , table ready good music will come back !

Lovely family day out, great food, nice drinks. Relaxed atmosphere and dog friendly too! Definitely will be coming back!

Great service and friendly staff. We also went to grill and graze and had the Korean flatbread which was out of this world!

Good service, good food, good choice and a good atmosphere. Would recommend it to anyone looking for a relaxed evening of food, drink and good company

Staff always friendly and happy to help. Food is nice and relatively reasonably priced, but drinks can be expensive. Portion sizes are normally too large, so go in with a good appetite. Good selection of vendors but some seem to be closed on certain days. Can get very busy at weekends but quieter during the week. Great views of Cathedral, especially if sat outside. Overall, recommended!

Visited on a Friday evening, which was pretty quiet. We stood and waited a while to be seated before we decided to ask at the bar if we could just sit in one of the many empty tables, we were then told we had to go back and wait at the door to be seated. The staff appeared uninterested. I love the idea of this place, it’s like a little community of food and drink venders, which is ideal if you all fancy something different to eat. We opted for some loaded fries and mac n cheese bites from the La Familia stand and were a little underwhelmed. They were ok, but nothing to rave about, all felt a bit over cooked. However, the guy who served us was super nice. Not sure I would be in a hurry to return.

Best food ive ever eaten. I ate from the Grill n Graze Street Food. I had hot beef and fries. Best food ever for £6.95. See pictures. I highly recommend this one from within the Food Pit but I would imagine all of the eateries are good from this placel, especially the Grill n Graze Street Food. 👍

Really good choice of food on offer. Love to bring the family here. We came here for dessert today which was amazing as always.

Bloody brilliant food, great feeling, place many food areas that you go to to order and pay for your food, then you're given a buzzer that lets you know when your food is ready, nice comfortable atmosphere nobody rushing you

Food greasy chips disgusting chicken strips not chicken strips was a chicken escolpe cut into strips in all disgusting and too expensive

okay if you want to go with your kids or snack, when all your friends have finished your food and you still waiting, no my idear for a dinner out

Great space to have lots of different cuisines.

The Food Pit is basically a venue that hosts several smaller independent food sellers. We chose this as it gave us a bit of choice with the kids. We were shown to a table and was told how it all worked. Menu has all the food in it, and then you order at the ones that you want. We ordered from two places and then drinks from the bar, everything almost turned up at the same time - although we understood there was a chance of some food being ready before others...! The food I had was nice (Budapest Parmo). It was all fairly easy going, which again made it great with the kids as we were not worrying about them upsetting other customers by being loud etc. The bar also had a good selection of drinks including cocktails. We all enjoyed the visit and would come again.

Great choice, good food and service.

Nice food, nice pint. Great atmosphere and something different from other food places

Made our own way to a table, as we thought it was all self service. No one at the door. Ordered Greek food as someone else's plate looked nice. We had Gyros and Souvlaki, salad was slithers of tomato and onions, chips, bread and dips were fine. We left a skewer of meat out of 2, the Gyros meat was greasy and barely touched. The meat was really bad. Wouldn't return.

Great place place to go when you have kids with different tastes in food

The pina colada cocktail was terrible unfortunately. But staff and atmosphere were good.

I had the veggie Mexican Quesadilla which wasn't bad and my mate had a kebab from the Greek stand which he was less impressed with. The range of drinks was limited - no ale or craft beers. There was an incident with two drunks that the bouncer / staff didn't handle that well but perhaps that has to be expected in Durham on a Saturday night??

food was chill hew loved the live entertainment and celebrity appearance from ejuzy

The Concept seemed appealing but the Quality of Food lets it down Plain burger £10 Handful of Fries £3 Greek Halloumi platter £10.95 Greasy and thrown together ( Never seen Tomato so thinly sliced ) There’s much better places to eat in Durham than wasting your money here.

Pretty cool. Lots of options and very good.

The staff was really nice additionally I misplaced some of my stuff and Chris at the bar area was super nice and helped me finding it. I rate it

I did not like this concept at all. The seating is very uncomfortable. You are paying restaurant prices for takeaway food which was not great. Go up & order your food, wait for buzzer, collect your food which means you all eat at different times. Can't comment on service as apart from being given menus there is no service. Wouldn't return.

Personally I think this place is great, it's a food court where you can eat from each place if you wanted to, Italian, Greek, American etc etc

Surprise bag via TGTG from Grill'n'Graze, ie food that would otherwise be thrown away. Said to contain £12's worth of food at a cost of £4. It contained 1 hotdog, a few chips and a small amount of pasta. If this is what you would normally be charged £12 for then it is a complete ripoff. It is not even worth the £4 I paid. Avoid this place, I certainly will.

I'm furious. Family of four ordered 4 meals, 3 where ok. I ordered from the Greek vendor, grilled Halloumi Pita, this came ( 20 minutes wait, so most of my family were half way through their meal) out covered in cayenne Pepper and there was O mentioned of this on the menu. I took a bite but really struggled and took it back, she said "that's your choice if you don't like it" I stated I was very sensitive to spice and allergic to Nutmeg. I did not declare as there was no mention of spice/ nutmeg on the menu and seemed bland and simple. She proceeded to tell me the cayenne pepper is in the Pita, Halloumi and sauce too, so surely this should be listed as a main ingredient well apparently not! I asked for a refund which she agreed to and said if I had declared my allergy ( even if the food may not have the allergens in it)and she had known about it they would of done it plain, which I accepted and she accepted the ingredient should be listed if it is on the meal. All fine then? Well no, I sat down and we all wanted a dessert so went to order waffles and declared my allergy for them to refuse service, a manager came to rudely tell me she will not serve me if I have an allergy and had a refund from another vendor ( remember refunded as it was covered in an ingredient not listed) and could not be certain of cross contamination due to a shared kitchen! So who was lying then either you do cater for allergy's or you don't. Or I was being punished for getting 9 pound refunded after spending 30 pound plus on the other meals. They actually still expected us to buy waffles for my kids after that, erm no we left. I felt ashamed for asking for a refund, which I wouldn't have had to do if the menu stated spice in the first place, to be told to declare the allergy no matter what I ordered and then to be refused service for having an allergy. This place should be reported to food standards! Don't go here.

First time here and we decided on the Greek menu. We had a tapas for 2 which was around 25. Good size portion which would probably serve 4. Overall service was quick, and staff were helpful and friendly

First time here will not be the last

There are several food units in the Food Pit. I can only speak for the hot dog bit, the food was average to be generous, portions small, prices high. Maybe some of the other stalls are better, but from what I saw the portions were as small and prices sky high. Not somewhere I'd return to.

It's been a while since we've been. Did not disappoint. Had Mexican meal, very tasty. Staff very helpful. We will be back.

Excellent choice of foods from various vendors also drinks available at a separate bar

Nice location, great staff. I had mexican. It was ok. Could do with better flavours.

Could be a lot better. Oreo Milkshake was one of the worst milkshakes I’ve ever tried. £5.95 for it to go in the bin

Really basic venue. People say “it’s got potential” which translates to “it’s currently disappointing”. The hot dog was £6. Costco’s is much better (softer bun and juicy meat) and is only £1.50 with a drink. The dessert stall looked good.

Visited the food pit with my sisters for a birthday. We were seated promptly and the waitress was friendly, explaining how the concept of the food pit worked. We had a look over the menu and I decided to go to Grill N Graze Street Food. I opted for the Korean Belly Pork flatbread with fries and salad. The fries were well seasoned and the pork was cooked very well. The Korean sauce was very tasty. Only slight problem was the flatbread was a little bit hard but that’s just luck of the draw. Definitely worth popping in for it in a group who are wanting different types of food.

I ordered from greek place. Worst greek food Ive ever tasted.

Had the two persons platter. The meat was cooked well and it was OK in terms of taste (of course nothing tastes like a proper Greek food outside Greece as the ingredients are not of the same quality. Also, in Greece everyone cooks with olive oil, which is too expensive to do here in the UK). Overall ok. However, the salad seemed to have been at least 7-10 days in the fridge before coming out to be served. Wouldn't touch it.

We went as a party of 6 for my sons birthday and all had great food. The ladies who served me from the Greek stall went over and above to help me have a wonderful meal as I have a few food intolerances. Thank you.

Wow, loved it here. We only tried from two different vendors but will branch out more next time. So for anyone who hasn't visited before... Basically it's a store with different vendors inside with seating in the center of the store. You wait to be seated but once you have a table you go up and order from whatever vendor takes your fancy and pay. You'll be given an electronic buzzer to take back to your table and once it goes off you take it back to the vendor and will be given your food. We opted for the parmo 😋 and then some milkshakes.

Service is unreal food is better we travelled from teesside defo returning to try more of the vendors

Not good if you have allergies or intolerances. Didn't make it easy for us to order or see the allergen menu as there were different establishments. Didn't stay in the end as they didn't have space and we didn't know if we would be able to eat anything.

SuperBowl hangover cure. Never been before but I’ve been wishing to visit for some time. The problem is……. Making my mind up what to have. I had a Chicken Parmesan with loaded fries and the missus chose belly pork, wings and prawns. Awesome food freshly cooked and not expensive . What’s not to like. We’ll definitely be back when our oldest son returns to UK in March

Parma La Familia do great parmos and the dirty Italia fries - WOW!

Got turned away from ordering, then saw the bloke i tried to order from take 3 other peoples orders straight after turning me away. the barista let us know that she would bring our drinks to the table, she let them sit on the bar top for 20 mins while serving other customers also.

Decent food, good portions, good service. A bit cold inside. Hopefully it continues to grow, nothing wrong but other locations at the moment do this better.

Bought a tgtg bag supposed to be £12 worth. What a joke . A kids tray with a hotdog, spoon of Mac n cheese and a few fries. Not recommended.

Very busy when I went. Tried the Mexican place. Reasonable and tasty.

Lovely to have choice foods something for everyone. Felt bit like a school canteen. Was very clean.

Fantastic little venue with so much potential. Super chilled atmosphere and great variety of food vendors in one business. We tried food from different places and each came out hot, tasty and fresh. Quality of ingredients was 10/10. The cocktails were excellent also! Fantastic business idea, shocked there’s not more of these elsewhere. Will definitely return!!! 100% recommend

Always lush and the fact everyone has so much choice kids are always happy. Happy kids = relaxing meal!

Used to like this place but it’s not great for allergies. What’s the point of having a gluten free tag on the menus and then not applying it to anything? The get out clause of “talk to our staff” isn’t a solution. Many of us don’t want to have a little meeting before ordering something. Just have a gf menu with modified versions or list what’s gf on the menu. It’s not difficult to do that. When you go abroad it’s incredibly common. We’re just useless at it in Durham

The Food Pit proved a good choice of dining venue in Durham City. It has a bar selling draught beers and a choice of "street food" stalls selling a variety of styles of cuisine. I chose a parmo, from Parma la Familia, a delicacy that originates in northern England. It was tasty and filling.

Plenty choice for all the family. We had the Greek platter, delicious and good value. Great cocktails reasonably priced.

Awesome place, perfect for a big group who aren't all settled on what food they want. Prices are about standard for nowadays (so not the cheapest), but drinks are lovely and plenty of non-alco choices. Plus you can just order on app if you don't like talking to people - win win!

Very good staff. Food awful. Seen a lot of good reviews on here but sorry I thought the food was truly awful and not proper street food. Service was very quick but in the past waited a long time. I've been twice but won't go again.

We loved the look of the place and the guy that took us to our table was great. The app was taking too long so we went and ordered at the front desks which was much quicker. We ordered two tacos, a burrito and a smash burger with fries. To be honest, everything was tasteless, which was upsetting as we were starving and really liked the idea of this one restaurant having numerous different kitchens each serving different types of food. But sadly, my tacos had very little flavour and even the smash burger was very boring and tasteless. My wife's burrito was medium spiced but still had no flavour, the fries that came with the burger were also bland and a little stale tasting. Whilst eating our disappointing meal I got up to order drinks, there were two women behind the bar serving and the woman in front of me had an order of 4 drinks or so. I waited and watched as 2 people took ages to make 4 drinks and even when they were finished they didn't acknowledge me and continued to make drinks for people that had ordered through the app, I had been waiting that long that I texted my wife and told her to download the app, register and order the drinks through that instead. I continued to stand and wait at the bar whilst she ordered the drinks thinking that maybe the bar staff would be quicker than my wife with the app, they weren't. I sat back down to continue my now cold food. We tried to redeem the day by ordering some cookie dough and ice cream but it too was really tasteless. Such a shame as this place has amazing potential

Great value for money, we ordered way to much food as wasn't expecting the portions to be that big. The Greek platter was good although the Gyro chicken wasn't the best and was way too salty for us but the Italian platter was amazing 🤩

Food was excellent - ordered the smashed burger from Parma La Familia, was delicious, definitely worth the price. Drinks were cold as well - nice to see. Service was excellent - all of the staff were very helpful and friendly. Bar staff and Parma La Familia staff were both excellent. Atmosphere - was a little quiet, but I don’t mind that, especially during lunch hours. Music was nice. Solid 9/10

Loved it will definitely go again

I've visited the food pit a few times and whilst it's fine for a small plate of very average food it could be a lot better. The service is sadly non existent, but the main problem is the quality or lack thereof of the food, it really is rubbish.

Called to Grill and Graze on a quiet Monday and had two flat iron steaks. To say the steak was chewy and tasteless is an understatement. The chimichurri had no taste. Never again! Have had food from the Mexican before which was very nice and good value. This was the total opposite. Even when it was 19 degrees outside, it was cold in here. Think I'll just go to one of Durham's other eateries in future.

Grill 'n' Graze @ at The Food Pit. I got a hod dog, chips and Mac & cheese to take away, it was amazing, great portion, reasonably priced, the chips were nice and crispy. The Mac and cheese was on another level. Amazing. will be back.

Decided to try here with family sat 16th sept. We ordered, Mac and cheese bowl and wings from the grill place, a burger and a parmo from the parmo place. Now I know I'm pretty spoilt as my hubby is a street food chef but The Mac and cheese honestly was the blandest thing I think I've ever had. It was strange. There was literally no flavour at all! The portion size is big but there was honestly no taste. Even after 3 sachets of salt and pepper so this was left. The chicken meat on the wings were dry but the Korean sauce on them was really nice. The burger was so tough and rubbery. I had to spit it out as it was like biting through leather. Then we get to the parmo. We ordered a one with Mediterranean sauce etc. I've honestly never tasted anything so vile in my life. It literally made me vomit. The sauce is a jar of what tastes like 5p Bolognese sauce that the local shop is selling as it's out.of date etc. The chicken was ok but the bechemel sauce and the Mediterranean one was vile. I threw up on my way to the bathroom it was that awful. Now this is just my opinion. There were plenty others in there that seemed to be really enjoying the food but unfortunately our whole table did not enjoy ours in the slightest. It's a really good idea and a really good atmosphere etc and great to have a choice of places to eat within the restaurant. That's what drew us in but unfortunately I won't be returning for the parmo ot Mac and cheese. Maybe would try the Greek and mexican though.

Excellent food and bar ,,, nice atmosphere & good food at Thai kiosk ,,, thank you so much 🙏

Terrible food. One of the worst burgers I’ve ever had. The tacos were also bad no flavour and the beef was dry.

I've tried a few different stalls in here. I've tried the Thai food stall, the burger stand, and the newest one that serves Korean style chicken wings and flat iron steak; 'tis a must have from the food pit. The service from the people at the stalls is really good too! Always keeping up despite being packed full of people. Its a great little market place for food.

Good place to try loads of different food

Nice choice of vendor. Nice setting. Busy but not overly noisy and good range of families young people etc. Seating was not great. Benches are a nightmare to share for getting in and out easily which you have to do to collect your food (buzzer system rather than brought to table as website suggests). Prices are a little expensive for street food. Especially the Thai vendor which was £13 for a chicken chow mein or rice bowl. Drinks expensive. We did have a lovely waffle which was quite good value for money as was big enough to share for 7.50. Would come again but would choose the Greek or Mexican options which seemed better value for money when we saw the portion sizes/price in person.

This was a great find on our break to Durham and would highly recommend, brill choices for all the family and the Greek food was amazing. Thank you for the lovely welcome and we hope to come again next time we are visiting

A casual place offering a range of 'street food' from six independent catering units. One bar, informal seating. I had the quesadilla from Holy Guacamole, which was very enjoyable. The filling was a little dry (more salsa please...) but plentiful. Definitely a satisfying dish I'll order again. My friend had chicken green curry from the Thai counter. Good quality food and very filling. We placed our orders the old fashioned way, in person, by going to the counters and chatting with the cooks. Pleasant and seamless service. No apps, no hassle. : )

really nice street food I had korean style grilled chicken from grill n graze and it was really lovely great portion size and very filling partner had falafel wrap from greek kitchen, said it was delicious and falafel was soft and tasty, but also could have done with more chips if that was an option they had loads of veggie and vegan options! food came quickly, staff were great, had an option to get self water, we also had milkshakes afterwards (including vegan) and there are loads of fun flavours

Ordered the parmo sharing platter not worth the money and totally tasteless very greasy aswell,expensive for drinks will not be returning

This is a great little space as there's a bit of something for everyone or anyone. The Greek platter could do 4 for a light lunch. The Thai is generally really nice, proper fresh and tasty The burritos are big and tasty It gets a bit pricey with a family as there's no family deals, I do like a family deal! You're looking at minimum £15 each with a drink.

Delightful food. Nice afternoon wiv my girlies

Well done to all the staff 👏 👍 😀 👌

Warm and welcoming with a great selection of different foods to try and a well stocked bar.

Food was fine, except the woman running the Thai stall was on her phone for almost 40 minutes, ignoring the machine. We eventually went up and talked to her, but only after she had us wait for her to finish texting.

We came to the food pit for my sons birthday, everyone was so helpful and friendly, the choice of food was amazing and everything came quick, fresh and was as tasty as advertised! The atmosphere was brilliant and the lads felt they had done something really grown up xx

Got a burrito and asked for no beans or guacamole but still came with it. Chips weren’t nice neither.

Great street food with options for everyone in the group. I wanted to go here to get my Greek Gyros fix and looked like one of the few places in Durham that served Greek food. I didn’t realise there was such a huge selection of other cuisines available. I can’t recall which one we got the deserts from, but they were excellent.

Loved the concept of the food kiosks serving a common area of tables. The Greek and the Mexican food was very tasteful! Fajitas for one were enough to feed two! :-)

False advertising. Ordered Spicy Basil from Manao Thai on the app. It says on the app as a byline "with fried egg". We were told in a rude manner after ordering that they don't do it anymore and that it would cost extra. There was no sense of understanding or empathy and they still wanted extra money for a fried egg. They also weren't bothered about getting the app updated to be correct.

Fantastic Thai food, particularly the Tom Yum and the seafood with rice. Greek gyros equally good

Good food and very much along the same lines as Stacks. I really enjoyed my bacon cheese smash burger. My only complaint would be how you couldn't combine your orders from different vendors to pay it all together

Good views with lots of food options. Get the bubblegum milkshake...after a few red stripes.

Top quality food here, and loads of it. The place had just opened so was pretty quiet. The staff were great and the food was served real quick too. Thanks 😊