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

Brilliant friendly and just so helpful as well as very reasonably priced.

We dined for Mother’s Day lunch yesterday and we’re disappointed that there wasn’t an acknowledgment of Mother’s Day. However, the real disappointment was when we received the bill and discovered we’d been charged £25 for poppadoms and pickles, of which we didn’t stipulate how many we required. La Raj has always been on the pricey side but as the food is usually of excellent quality, it wouldn’t be an issue - we’ve also had numerous takeaways which you are required to collect and pay cash which isn’t always convenient. The price point is just to excessive and unfortunately, we won’t be returning.

I visited the Woodlands today for the Christmas Fayre Lunch. I had ordered a starter which never arrived! The Turkey roast dinner was very nice, however, it was cold and the gravy luke warm.. I had the Christmas pudding for dessert which was overcooked and very dry as though it had been cooked in the microwave too long!

lovely tasty pizza, this is my go to take away now 😋

Food is very nice well worth it good portions and the staff are friendly it might help if they sorted the app out what's the point saying its open on the app when ifs NOT!

Had an amazing breakfast here this morning brisket hash was just divine. Caitlin coped admirably making sure everything was in order for the 13 of us. Thank you Caitlin . Beautiful place and will definitely be back

We've waited nearly an hour and still no food arrived ,service atrocious,venue not very warm either ,a lot on menu was not available !

Excelente comida temprana con un excelente servicio. Ambiente encantador y el personal muy amable. Definitivamente iré de nuevo.

Lovely little cafe. Nice food and coffee and very well decorated inside. The staff were very friendly particularly a nice young man behind the till. We didn’t even notice there was an outdoor area, but I imagine on a sunny day like today, that would be a lovely place to sit with a coffee.

This was a really nice place to pop in for lunch or tea, but unfortunately something has changed. They've obviously spent a lot of money on doing the old place up and to be honest it's very nice and they've done a really good job. Unfortunately that's it because we all found the food to be very mediocre and bland. Service was really slow and it was almost an hour before we received our food. I had a mixed grill (£20) which was so bland , there was just no taste whatsoever in fact the chicken, steak and gammon all tasted the same, just bland unseasoned meat. Son had sea bass (£18.25) and it was terrible, dry and bland again and to be honest it looked terrible to. Mrs had belly pork that was tough like rubber and my mam had steak pie with concrete pastry, she literally could not eat it and left it. We told them it was inedible but they weren't interested and said they would tell the chef. Reading through some of the reviews on here were not the first to have a concrete crust on the pie. This just tells me they don't seem to care as long as people keep eating there. This is the third time we've been disappointed here so we won't be returning. Maybe we're just unlucky but after talking to other people it seems we're not.

My favourite chippy! Food is cooked to order and is always so fresh and delicious. Absolutely love the staff too, always so friendly and energetic! Music videos while you wait - love it!