The Moorings in County Durham

Walked in the bar and no staff around, Waited 5 minutes, went upstairs to look for someone to check if the place was open, made to feel like an inconvenience disturbing the staff talking. The girl who served us was pleasant enough, but who I assume was a manager was rude and obviously not giving correct training to staff. Card machine brought over to table before food arrived, we paid. After thinking it was more than expected we asked for the receipt, Charged for 2 meals when it should be 2-4-1, a mistake which was rectified when pointed out, then charged £14 for a drink we were told was £6. The whole place was completely empty, such a shame as it is a lovely place, could be a cosy pub lunch spot but the hospitality or lack of would stop us returning. Food was okay, but burgers served in a basket?! They are advertising so much on Facebook etc maybe should focus more of the customers who actually come in.

Advertised as a new menu and a revamp since being opened and closed several times in the last few years, tried the bar food clearly underprepared to open lots of claims of new menu etc but bottom line is if you are venturing into the food market please don't with frozen pre prepared badly warmed up and over cooked offerings sent food back twice lots of laughter at our complaints from kitchen a bit disconcerting and left after this with plates well plastic baskets, quite full of their offerings poorly presented with a total lack of flavour and quality offerings and little concern from staff or management for the food they were attempting to offer. BEST AVIOD shame as in past this was a great location not at present.

We stayed at this hotel for one night on our recent trip to the north east of England. Our rooms were clean and large, with ensuite facilities. My room was slightly chilly and my friend's was, on the other hand, almost too hot as the radiator in the bathroom couldn't be turned off. (Whereas mine couldn't be turned on!!) As the hotel is situated out of the centre, we decided to eat here and did not regret it. Our meal was very good. We had the homemade pie with mash (made from real potatoes) and thoroughly enjoyed it. The serving was copious and the food very good. The following morning we also had breakfast here, which was more than adequate with a choice of cereals, yoghurts as well as a cooked choice. Really nothing to complain about. I would recommend this hotel and restaurant to anyone looking for somewhere to stay or eat.

The food was mediocre, the service was atrocious. The staff, 1 lady in particular, were miserable. Never checked if our food was OK. Didn't ask us if we wanted another drink and we had to ask them for the dessert menu. Definitely would not go back.

Front of house service good, friendly and helpful. Food awful, would not recommend, pity because in the past we have had some nice evenings there.

Really enjoyed our meal here, lovely restaurant with ‘proper chips’! I like the fact that they are back to doing pub classics and not just Italian

Food was okay, but plentiful. Chips overcooked bordering on burnt but lots of meat in the hot beef bap. Zero atmosphere, no background music. We opted for table service but had to chase staff for drinks & desserts even though there were only two other tables of customers. Views from the windows would have been beautiful had the windows been clean enough to see out of properly! Would maybe go again... unsure.

Arrived on Friday evening to be greeted by the manager, booked in and were shown to the room that was fantastic, clean and well maintained, grabbed a shower in the lovely spotless Bathroom before heading for the evening meal, ordered the meal and complimented how tasty it was , good portions and well priced, in the morning headed up for breakfast that yet again was outstanding, i must thank the team at the Moorings for making our 2 night stay fantastic in every way, i would recommend people try the moorings as it's under new owners (mid June) who have been great, look forwards to visiting again VERY soon

Had a one night stay here - turned up and the place was completely shut up, doors locked and no-one around. Phone doesn't connect. Looked at Google reviews and looks like it has been shut for at least a week. So no-one thought to tell pre-existing bookings of any closure - which was great after a 5 hour drive to pull up to. We travelled for a wedding the next day so had no choice other than to find alternative accomodation which on a bank holiday weekend was extremely hard and very expensive.

Arrived for a one night stay on my way home from Northumberland. It's VERY difficult to find. When I did, there were no lights on, no sign of life, curtains drawn and oneoccupied car parked outside the locked gates to the car park. "Looks like they've done a runner". They asked if I'd booked on Booking.com. I had. They said that three cars had turned up in the last few minutes, all had booked and were now mighty angry. I had little option but to drive all the way home that evening - about 300 miles! It was a bank holiday weekend so I wasn't going to waste time in a vain search for alternative accomodation which would be at premium rate.

No stars more appropriate!!! Came with friends and hubby who has Parkinson’s and his service dog. They ignored the fact she was a service dog and shoved us in a freezing cold room even though there was only one table occupied in the whole place. Hubby could t even get in the chair to sit as we were in a tight corner. Nothing friendly about the place, we got up and left as wouldn’t give them my money after being treated in that way. If your disabled and have a service dog AVOID, infact being ignored and unfriendly I’d avoid anyway

Just returned after a one night stay for our 25th Anniversary. The room was lovely..clean and bright with quality bedding. We booked a patio room with private outside area complete with garden furniture and it was lovely. We headed to Ariano’s restaurant for our meal.. greeted by Mario and escorted to our table. We ordered the 2 for £10 cocktails, Pineapple Margaritas and they tasted delightful. After browsing the menu we ordered the potato skins, a chicken Kiev, chicken in peppercorn sauce with a portion of home made chips each..both courses were delicious with ample portions… my partner had chocolate brownie and ice cream.. which looked fabulous in presentation and tasted even better. Time for the bill..we thought something had been missed off it, but we were in formed the 3 course chicken meal was £11.95 from 12-9pm..Unbelievable! We highly recommend The Moorings and Ariano’s restaurant.. the staff were very friendly, happy and helpful..Well Done to Mario, Viktor, Callum and Cody..had to give them all a mention as they made our night a good one.. We’ll be back very soon to try your Sunday lunch ..can’t wait.

We visited as a large group to celebrate Mothers Day. I was very impressed with the attentiveness of the staff, they could not do enough for us. There was an issue with the heating in the main restaurant and the manager moved us to the warm conservatory, The food was very nice, i had the £7.50 deal and the portion size was fantastic! My daughter enjoyed the tagliatelle carbonara and she said it was delicious and even asked for sticky toffee pudding for afters which she ate all! There were no empty plates. Everyone enjoyed their night and it is only right to allow people to read this and experience the food and brilliant customer service for them selves. I will be returning again for sure. Thank you once again to all of the staff!

This is our 3rd visit and it never disappoints, The restaurant is very comfortable with very welcoming staff very friendly! The food is absolutely delicious, the fillet steak is perfection nicest I’ve ever had. Pasta dishes are full of flavour I cannot recommend this restaurant enough it’s a must!

My wife and I are regular visitors to the Moorings and Ariano's restaurant. The food is always first class, as is the service from staff every time we visit. We are always made to feel very welcome and everything about this establishment far exceeds expectation, particularly when considering the low prices. We regularly visit many other restaurants in the area and this one is head and shoulders above the majority of them. I felt it essential to leave a review after reading a recent scathing review left by another patron after a disastrous engagement party. We visited The Moorings on the evening in question and it is fair to say our experience and view of events taking place that night were somewhat different to those presented in the said scathing review. There was very loud music coming from the bar downstairs and the management were right to request that the music was turned down to a reasonable level for the benefit of the many guests in the restaurant (which was full). We also witnessed a somewhat aggressive confrontation with the aggression coming from one of the guests who had came from the function downstairs. Upon leaving the restaurant there were guest from the party gathered outside and there was indeed a strong smell of Cannabis smoke. I don't believe the management were prepared for the events that unfolded that evening and I am more than certain they will seriously consider whether to accept a booking of this nature in the future. The scathing review left by the lady from the party was very one sided and I would say somewhat unfair. Please do not be put off visiting this restaurant as the events of that evening are an absolute one off isolated incident in our experience. We have eaten there on more than twenty occasions and never before has anything like this happened. Ariano's is one of the best places to eat in the area in our view and not to be missed. Ten out of ten every time from us! Keep doing exactly what you are doing!!

We both had the steak night special, and the steak has got to be the best we’ve ever had. We’ve visited some of the best restaurants but this chef makes the best steaks by far. Cooked to perfection. The staff provide fantastic hospitality and so friendly.

I absolutely loved this place.Myself and my friends came for a dinner and cocktails and WOW.The staff were amazing and we were delighted to have I think Cody and Rubie who were looking after our table.Cannot fault it will definitely be back for more food.

I don’t even know where to start!!! I have been going to the mooring for food for over a year and always had such a great experience with the restaurant. We saw they offer a function room which was free to hire and decided to book this for my engagement party for 1st March 2024. We booked this in September so 5 months notice. When arriving on the day to set up the room around 4pm we were informed that the party had to end around 10:30pm which was an hour before originally discussed due to their License being provided a few weeks ago. I had not been contact to inform me prior to the day of the party which I think was absolutely unprofessional. We had a musician booked to play a set from 9pm to 11pm which obviously I had to contact 2 hours before the party to bring this forward half an hour. Again, not ideal but luckily the musician was more than happy to do so. At 6:30 when the party started the main door which was a FIRE EXIT was locked. I asked them on multiple occasions to keep that door open as I had three disabled grandparents at the venue which wouldnt be able to get up the stairs if there was a fire. I was told by a lady from behind the bar that “Micky the manager likes to keep that door locked so no stranger come in” when I explained that my grandparents are unable to exit the building if there was a fire abd we wouldn’t allow strangers to just walk in, she responded with “there has never been a fire and that won’t happen”. Just wow, I didn’t even know how to respond to such an idiotic comment. Not only is that showing absolutely no care for peoples lives and safety it just shows an absolutely lack of knowledge of the law. I was told food would be served at 8pm which left 30 minutes for people to eat before the entertainment started. However, the food wasn’t served till 8:30pm when the entertainment was supposed to start. This caused more delay and was a huge inconvenience as I had ask him to come to start for 8:30pm due to the license issues. I was then pulled buy one of the managers at 9:40pm to say the party is now having to end at 9:45pm due to apparently one of my guest having cannabis on him at the start of the night. I was not informed of this until this chat at 9:40pm otherwise I would had dealt with this myself due to having children at the party. Unfortunately, I don’t have responsibility to what people decide to bring. By this point I was absolutely disgusted at how a company and management team could be so unprofessional and trying to end the party with 5 minute notice. Micky who is the manager was the person I had booked the party with so I decided to go and speak with him myself. He started shouting at me and tried to say that he didn’t know we had a musician booked which was completely untrue. My Fiance and I had been to the venue multiple time to ensure everything was fine and been super transparent with them. He then said he had called the police and they will deal with the issue. When the police arrived, they asked what the issue was and mickys words were “I’m worried it going to kick off”. Which it absolutely hadn’t at any point of the night. This was a family party that people had travel 6 hours to come to and they were causing nothing but problems. I was so upset as I just didn’t understand what the problem was. Everyone was enjoying the night. I understand that there is a restaurant upstairs but if having music on in a function room was the problem why have a function room that can by hired for party’s??? The police asked as to turn the music down a little and left with no problems. I just don’t understand what went wrong and why Micky had a issue. My family and friends were all disgusted and confused with why there was such an issue as they have live music themselves on Friday nights. We hadn’t done anything wrong and spent an absolute fortune behind the bar. We also hired the whole of the hotel out. After everything, the next day I went to tidy up the room and left everything as we found it even though I was Appalled by the way I was treated. This is we’re the food which was served at the party was still sat there at 11am the next day. If that’s not asking for rats or mice I don’t know what is. 🤮 I will NEVER EVER be going back to this restaurant or venue again and advice anyone wanting to book out the function room to stay well clear!!! I have never experienced such a shocking, unorganised and poor management in my whole life!!! STAY WELL CLEAR!!!

Visited for the £7.50 happy hour wasn’t sure what to expect but was lovely great food very friendly and professional service. 9 of us visited tonight and will definately be back. Very good place to try

We love the Moorings, fantastic place and excellent value for your money, never had a bad meal. The staff are fantastic, so friendly and go out of their way . There is excellent choice on their menu, so reasonably priced. We are looking forward to when they put their special fish menu on, cant wait. Oh and their Sunday lunches are lovely, only 10 pound, where in Stanley can you get a Sunday lunch for 10 pound, no where, everywhere charges at least 17 pound, book your Sunday lunches here, you won t be disappointed

Been a few time staff were always propa nice but every time I gan there’s always diferent people , food was ok price ok , me dinner was full gravy covering me full plate but was nice but try not put too much on next time it was hot but was much nicer when I came last year had cheese cake that was nice but don’t think it was homemade Price was responsible pint was ok feel like the place has gone doon hill na atmosphere but hopefully better next time and its just a one off ‘ will come back as Bairn liked hers wife like hers

I opted for the Steak special, which comprised of a 3 course meal for £22. Wow! The starter was just garlic-heaven; mushrooms on a bed of toasted French bread. The taste was great! The steak was very tender and just how I like it. The chocolate cake dessert was surprisingly light and not stodgy. Atmosphere was buzzing, but relaxed and the services was top notch. I really can't fault the whole experience, seriously. I expected low-quality judging from the exterior - but was surprised to find high-quality inside! Downside: I have to put a downside in, but the Lime and Soda was thin on the lime and it had a funny musty taste - like it was old stock. It also cost more than I expected - given that the quality was suspect. I can recommend 100%. I will be visiting again - even on my own.

Mint food nice staff cruzcampo on draft what can ya complain about jonny the manager was canny as out and had mint craic 💪🏽👍

Just been yesterday for lunch… was lovely to see it was busy and thriving and a really lovely atmosphere… didn’t wait long for food either eventhough it was busy My friend had the £7.50 special and is gluten intolerant so was able to get gluten free pizza… at no extra charge.. this is amazing as normally other places charge extra for this.. and was able to take the rest home as they boxed it up for her Food was amazing as always… 3 young staff serving us.. all pleasant and nothing was a bother Will definitely be back and think

We have been here a number of times as a 4 and a 6. The service is amazing with such friendly and helpful staff who always take the time to chat and already recognise us. We have had an evening meal and a couple of Sunday lunches and the food is fantastic. I really can't recommend The Moorings highly enough and will be going there again.....and again....and again.....

This place is amazing. Daughter had her 18th in the conservatory. They were so helpful. I took decorations over inthe afternoon abd cake. Nothing was too much trouble. The service was fantastic and a special mention to the young woman there called Cody I think. She as amazing. Nothing too much trouble. Also the other 2 gentleman were fab too. Food amazing for the price and everyone loved it. Thsnkyou for making her birthday special

Family have moved into the area and this is now their local and how pleased are we?! We’ve been a few times now & the food we’ve eaten is superb. Sunday lunches are amazing. The staff are great, very welcoming, attentive and fun. We look forward to our next visit !!

Been loads of times foods always nice and plenty on the plate the staff are friendly and cater to your needs would highly recommend even get to take your leftover food

We ordered from the main menu. i had fillet steak with peppercorn sauce with vegetables, my sister had the same with alla creama sauce with onions and mushrooms. Both meals were lovely, cooked to how we like them. I think we paid about 18 pound each. Our only complaint is that the steaks are getting smaller in size, but so is everything nowadays that you buy . We had excellent service from the staff, thankyou

Fabulous food tonight .amazing service from waitingbstaff above & beyond .we enjoyed our meal lovely atmosphere was very chiled ! 10/10 all.round from.us arionos 😁😁

A great restaurant which we visit when we have a family get together. The staff are lovely and food is great quality and good value.

After being our local for the last 30 years we were very disappointed that when we called in tonight for a drink we were informed that now they only serve customers that order food

Nieces birthday cannot praise the staff enough brilliant service and made everyone feel appreciated, food was very good

We booked a sunday lunch visit for a family party of 19 people.We were all seated together and drinks orders taken straight away.We all ordered main courses only and they nearly all came out together - two meals slightly delayed but all in all it...

We love the Moorings, they were celebrating their first birthday under new owners, everything was half price on the main menu and half price on selected drinks. My sister had the grilled steak with chips, i had steak with peppercorn sauce and vegetables, both meals...

Came here today for a meal with my partner, and will definitely be back. The restaurant is celebrating its 1st birthday and the owner has halved the prices to celebrate. My partner had potato skins to start and I had the black pudding dianne. Massive...

We stayed here last night and I have to say the staff and food were tremendous. Such a great family run place and would definitely recommend staying here. What a gem of a place. Thank you so much for a wonderful stay.

Booked this hotel through booking.com absolute bargain for bed and breakfast 👍 room a bit dated but spotless and great shower in bathroom, off to Adriano's restaurant what is next door to hotel they do a terrific 3 course special (12.00 to 5.00pm) fortunately for...

I wanted somewhere to stay near Beamish for 5 nights. The Moorings was great value for money. Perhaps a little 'tired' in some ways, but I've never cared so long as a hotel is clean and the staff are there for you - and it...

We love going to Arianos at The Moorings and the Sunday lunch is wonderful. £12 for two courses and the portions are enormous and the quality is spot on. The staff are so efficient and you are seated and your drinks are ordered within minutes....

We came to celebrate my mum’s 70th. The food was fantastic - particularly catering for my brother who is coeliac - most of the menu was available to him. Staff were amazing, particularly Dawn and Michael who went out of their way to make sure...

We went for Sunday lunch, we both had roast beef which was melt in the mouth (we got good size portion), a big yorkie pud, and a sausage. The veg was mashed potato, carrots, peas, turnip and parsnips, and plenty of gravy. The meal was...

I took my family for a sunday lunch here recently.It was lively and well worth the £10 it cosr for the main course only.All the family and there were six of us loved the food and would highly recommend its Sunday lunch.It pays to book...

We ate here last week whilst staying in Lumley Castle. I had Chicken Alla Creama. The sauce tasted very strange so after a few mouthfuls I left most of it. On the menu it said with onion, mushrooms & cream. I was very ill all...

With a party of 20 you come to expect a couple of problems with orders of this size, but not here, ordering was easy food came out almost all together, piping hot and very tasty, the quality of the meals was superb. The whole evening...

We visited the Italian restaurant tonight for my mothers 70th birthday. We were looking forward to this after hearing positive reviews but were disappointed. The main issue was getting a drink. There was one person making drinks rushed off her feet and about 5 waiters...

Had the unfortunate experience of staying here overnight. A 'girl' showed us a room which wasn't made up, hastely taking us to another one, then announced that breakfast was at '9', not before or after, 'thats what she was told'! The room was noisy and...

Unfortunately we never got to stay here because I received a message on the day to say our booking had been cancelled, they were blaming Booking.com for overbooking but we had actually booked this in February so if it was double booked I think I...

We stayed here while visiting Beamish. The owners haven't been here long and are still finding their feet but the food is pretty good and reasonably priced. We had several meals here, including breakfast and all was good. One night we had a pizza each...

So called in today for Sunday lunch and to be fair the place was busy but.... Still eating our starter we were approached by young blonde girl who asked if we were finished our starters and proceeded to take our plates away while we were...

Awful experience. Booked table. Arrived 15 minutes before and waited 30 minutes in busy bar area. Food being carried out to tables through crowded bar area. At leat 10 other people waiting for overdue table and being ignored. Glad we didn’t wait any longer as...

We booked this hotel as we were visiting Beamish and wanted to stay overnight, it is just a couple of miles down the road, so it’s really convenient. Also it's not too far from the Metro Centre, etc. Booking through a company I've never heard...

Booked for 3 nights, checking was fine room was spacious and very clean with an added bonus of a private decking area and the room was serviced daily . My only concern when booking the Moorings is it seemed a little remote which was not...

we used to go to the Moorings often, then it went down hill, heard it was under new ownership and gave it another go. Fabulous food, actually gave it 10/10, I had roast turkey Sunday lunch, my friends had chicken in pepper sauce and the...

Lovely meal, good service nice surroundings We were staying in the hotel room two has an outside seating area. Shame hottub gone, and needs cleaning up a bit. Dead plants outside the door, sad artificial ones on fence. Was a bit concerning that next door...

Garlic prawns to start sauce dreadful Then Pizza Calzone the inside lovely the dough not good more like a short crust

What a fab restaurant and Hotel, great staff ,food excellent and faultless. Friday night is " Live Music " night ...amazing entertainment..an evening we'll never forget fulll of surprises..A BIG THANK YOU !!

My sister and i go here often as it is such a nice place to eat. There is plenty of choice on the menu with good deals, 3 course £7 .50, a three course chicken deal and a steak deal. The food is always well...

Cannot comment on stay as we never even got that far. Booked for 2 nights via Agoda.com Apparently unable to book direct with establishment) price given was £124, so far so good. When confirmation email came through from The Moorings the price had increased to...

I’ve been working nearby the last few weeks and this was recommended. Now been 3 times. Excellent food and friendly staff. Superb value and I’ll miss it when work in the area finished !

A family Sunday lunch - we had a friendly greeting and quickly shown to the table , which had the menus on already - the drinks arrived in no time. Ordering took a little longer as , on top of the Sunday lunches, the whole...

Home made chips, fabulous fillet steak great choice of starters, very reasonably priced. King Prawn starter was very tasty, as was the pate lots of it too, good for couples, family or friends.

Me and my husband decided try after hearing good reviews from friends. When arriving we were greeted and taken to our seat. We were given menus and I was impressed with the choice of dishes and specials. Our meals were lovely, very tasty and plentiful....

I absolutely love this place! Been a few times now and the food is always excellent and fantastic value for money, but the best thing about it is the staff. They always make you feel so welcome and always make a massive fuss of our...

The moorings Hotel is now an Italian restaurant. We have visited a few times now and have always been very happy with our food and the service is brilliant too. They offer a 3 course special for £8 Monday to Saturday 12 till 5pm. Which...

We visited again tonight for more stunning food went for the chicken special for 11.99. we started with lovely crunchy potato skins with home made dips and garlic mushrooms and garlic bread for the little one, could of went home happy at this point but...

Took my family for a meal on a Monday lunchtime and had a great meal.We all ordered starters (soup and potato skins) and all had pasta and pizzas for mains with a side order of garlic bread.The food was beautiful and 3 courses for £8...

Ribeye steak with Dianne sauce Easily the worst steak I have had in my life. Like a watery mulch. I don't now how it was re-heated/cooked but it certainly was not freshly made. Penne pasta vegetables Contained chicken - disgusting for a vegetarian to discover....

We first came here last month and it was gorgeous. Myself and hubby both had steaks and daughter had a ham pizza. Could not fault it so came back today. I had Volcano chicken (which was stunning), hubby had Alfredo pasta and daughter had chicken...

Hi, I was today for Christmas dinner & spent £250 on the 3 of us. The starter & main I couldn’t knock it was lovely but the sticky toffee pudding was like it come out of a tin it didn’t look like what the other...

the ariano,s restaurant review in some parts is only 3 stars in other parts it is rated 5 stars thus it comes out to be 4 stars over all. Firstly a table had been booked for 5.30 they where informed that we had a potable...

We went on a Tuesday for the lunch as everything 50 per cent off apart from the specials board and drinks. I had king prawns in garlic , and a side order of chunky chips, my brother in law had king prawns and garlic bread...

Just been for a fantastic family meal. Staff were very friendly and welcoming, service was exceptional considering how busy it was and the food was just amazing. Black pudding, calamari and skins for starters, fillet steak, chicken dishes and pizzas for mains, all perfect, no...

My husband and i visited Ariano's @ The Moorings at lunch time today and boy were we impressed. The whole menu was half price and will be so Mondays and Tuesdays throughout January. The ambiance was lovely and staff friendly, polite and very helpful and...

Just visited Arianos restaurant at the moorings. Steak and roast lamb Sunday dinner. Lovely food, good portions and lovely attentive staff. Price was reasonable too.

Customer service was amazing. I felt welcomed as soon as I walked in. The place was fresh and clean. The food was excellent. I ordered a steak surf and turf. It was one the best steak I have had in a while, melting in my...

Just been in for food with my partner we got soup and potato skins then 2 carbonara was amazing food was delicious staff were so friendly and polite portion size were amazing can’t fault it at all will definitely be back and will be spreading...

We have been 3 times since it became our local after moving. Its a luxury to have such a great pub and restaurant near by. Recommended any time :) .

This was our first visit to The Moorings and I understand that it is now under new management. The restaurant is Italian and offers a good variety of Italian dishes. We opted for a starter and main course and both were very generous portions. The...

This is the first time we have visited since The Moorings has been under new management. We were very impressed with the food, it was really tasty and the portions were generous! The lady who served us was attentive and the staff were all lovely....

This is the first time we have had a sunday lunch which is under new management at the Moorings. I had roast beef and my sister had the lamb. The lunch came with mash, roasties, peas, cauliflower, turnip, a very tasty sausage with a stuffing...

Recently stayed at moorlands hotel with my husband for 2 nights the rooms were clean and comfortable with friendly staff and a welcoming ambience and great food. The new owner Pablo was very friendly and is a great singer. Would recommend the restaurant for families...

Lovely food and extremely friendly and attentive service. Garlic kings prawns and pate for our starters. Then we decided to treat ourselves to fillet steak for main course and it was worth it. Best steak we’ve had in ages and the Diana Sauce was delicious....

I visited with my daughter for lunch, during half term. This is the first time we’ve returned to the Moorings since it’s recent take over, now known as Ariano’s at The Moorings. We arrived shortly after opening time and were the second customers of the...

Amazing hotel, very clean and nice cosy room with en-suite. We came for a weekend away over the Halloween weekend. The staff could not have been more helpful, I have been on crutches and they offered a downstairs room and offered to bring food to...

Visited today and sorry but won’t be back, the Sunday lunch was an atrocious, overcooked pile of mush hidden under slices of meat and a not so fresh Yorkshire and a huge sausage (on a Sunday lunch??hmm) The garlic bread my son was served was...

Warm welcome. Accommodation attached to pub,fresh,clean,light airey,large rooms, big area outside French doors to sit,TV, drink making, evening meal/brekky good variety at reasonable prices. Pub is lovely, clean & outside area to rear with car park. Couldnt fault overnight stay,Michelle head house keeper down to...

Met by a lovely member of staff who showed us to our room, which was a good size, bed very comfortable, Bathroom clean and tidy with toiletries. Food served Friday night was delicious could not fault it. Saturday breakfast not bad. However Sunday breakfast was...

Attended The Moorings this Sunday after frequenting for years. However we have since moved over 100 miles and were revisiting. The professionalism is not longer present. The decor is drab and uninviting, there was no background music so the only sound we could hear was...

Went to The Moorings yesterday for Sunday Lunch. Ordered our food at 2pm at 2:45pm I went to the bar to and ask if it would be much longer. Was then told the Kitchen had fallen behind but had now caught up and it wouldn't...

Great hotel recently refurbished in heart of county Durham. Easy commute to Chester le Street and Durham. Lovely views from garden area. Large car park. Lovely large twin room with lovely bathroom ensuite with toiletries. Room was clean and well furnished. Staff were very helpful...

Youse have ruined my fave restaurant proper shocking how bad the foods got the Malayan chicken curry was unreal and the gravy was lush been going for 20 years since I was 14 and the second it was takenover it went downhill honestly youse will...

Three of us visited for Sunday Lunch and we all enjoyed the meal. I had beef which was plentiful and delicious the other 2 had Pork Belly and thoroughly enjoyed it. Been going to the Mooring for over 15 years and found it is now...

All do yourselves a favour and don't bother. Stayed a couple of nights and we have said never again. As regular visitors to Chester le Street we wanted to find somewhere that we could stay every visit but never again. Even though we were staying...

We only had breakfast at The Moorings, but it was a very enjoyable experience. The food was excellent, and there was a good choice including vegetarian. The staff went out of their way to make us welcome

My wife and I called in for a teatime meal.Booked a table and arrived to be seated beside a window.Ordered drinks and then ordered food 10 mins later.We both had starters and main courses and the food was lovely with all the dishes - black...

Was a lovely stay. The rooms were excellent with everything provided for what you need. Very clean and tidy. The food was excellent and there was plenty of choice. In particular what made our stay even nicer was the staff. They were very professional, friendly...

We've been coming here for years as a treat. Somethings gone badly wrong, although the staff are great,friendly and chatty but the quality of the food has fallen off a cliff. It used to be exceptional, its now bland. Sadly we won't be back.

Having been to the moorings on and off for the last few years where we have always had beautiful meals we thought we would see how the food was since change of ownership. Having always had the Malayan Curry which was superb with lovely cooked...

Having been for Sunday lunch here for many years and always had gorgeous food we decided to go and try it now it’s under new management. What a disappointment, the lunch was barely hot, vegetables were hard and everything was quite tasteless. Needless to say...