The Royal Oak in County Durham

Convenient opening times; excellent service; absolute delicious food: Bhuna Prawn Puri; Chicken Tikka starter: Chicken Tikka Rogan Josh; Bombay Aloo side; Onion Pilau Rice; Peshwari Nan, etc. Mmmmmmm. Sooo good. Look forward to the next time.

Service a little slow but it was busy so no issue with that. Staff attentive and polite really like this place full English was spot on

This is a relatively new restaurant offering what I would describe as modern British fine dining. There is a Sunday lunch menu, ten course tasting menu or four course menu. - See the website for menu details. The kitchen is open at the back of the restaurant so you can see the food being prepared. We chose th four course menu. The food was well presented and was prepared to a very high standard, as was the service. You can opt for different glasses of wine with each course on all of the menus, but there is also a wine list available. Highly recommend.

Lovely Sunday lunch, food was very tasty, well worth a visit, staff a friendly a great place to visit

Amazing Cafe! Upon entering the cafe was full and whilst finding a table a lovely staff member seated us together in some armchairs until a table was available. I’m gluten intolerant and asked her if they catered for me and was delightfully surprised to hear that all items on the menu could be catered for GF! I had a full English breakfast which was good quality produce and yummy, the toast provided with it was also nice bloomer style bread! My son had a tuna melt toastie and thoroughly enjoyed that too! The atmosphere was super friendly, constantly full tables (which I think says it for its self), the service was impeccable and I can honestly say we will be definitely visiting again if in the area. Oh and whilst leaving couldn’t resist taking out a yummy looking cake to have later on!