The best restaurants in Chester-le-Street North and East County Durham North East

We called into lous for our lunch and had homemade quiche with salad and a hot beef sandwich with homemade chips.Both meals were absolutely lovely and the hot tea was very nice as well.Very friendly staff.We shall return.

The food is always outstanding and always great quality!! The staff in there are the friendliest people you could meet! Come here regular and never disappointed

Friendly welcome, good choice of tasty food. It's becoming a regulator occurrence! Today was a jacket spud with coronation chicken, and a vanilla cheesecake to follow. I've previously had the carbonara and Whitby scampi - both excellent.

Good food. Friendly and polite service. As regards atmosphere, it's a takeaway. I suppose if a giant panda gave you a massage while you waited among beautiful hanging gardens it would improve the experience somewhat but it's just a good Chinese takeaway. Recommended.

Food always nice from here and really great staff. Cheers Luke

Fantastic 2 night stay, Simon, Vicky and the rest of the staff made you feel very welcome as soon as you met them, locals in the bar were like family. Lovely clean rooms, comfy beds, good price. Lovely home cooked food, massive portions! Proper traditional pub , full of character with open fires. Perfect location for Beamish museum & other attractions , will definitely be returning

Second breakfast in here and the latest was every bit as good as the first. Came highly recommended and didn’t disappoint. Full English again, quality food and perfectly poached eggs. Not a trace of grease anywhere. Lovely thick proper toast and butter pats supplied. Tasty coffee and nice friendly staff. I have seriously tried every establishment in Chester that sell full English and this is the best imo. Will certainly try the rest of the home made food menu.

Sunday lunch was lovely the only one thing I could fault was the turnip was very watery

Great quality food. Best I've had from them so far!

My wife and I called in for lunch recently.Tge foid was excellent,the service friendly,beer cold and excellent value. What more do you need - we shall return - excellent.

A bit quiet, but cricket was rained off, and I had time to kill

Food delicious, but chips weren't very good (frozen) rice was perfect, nans awesome will go again.

Visited the restaurant again for the first time in years and was not disappointed. Ordered the set banquet (but tweaked a couple of choices). The food was absolutely amazing. Beautifully presented, freshly made to order, great portion sizes and honestly, absolutely delicious. Service was excellent too. Highly recommend a visit. We will definitely be back!

Great live music venue on a Friday night. Good beer, great bands and friendly folk to chat to. Never tried the food there so can't comment on that

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.