The best restaurants in Elvet County Durham North East

Highly recommend this restaurant, excellent service, food and atmosphere. We have dined here several times and always received good quality food

Really good waffle, crusty outside and soft and fluffy inside. Served with a big scoop of creamy icecream. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Very good, went for my partner's birthday. I had the Mexican Chicken, a bit like butter chicken, with coriander and pepper, very nice. My partner had a fajita, which comes served on a skillet and you make your own with 4 wraps. We had their onion rose starter, which is a bit like a massive onion bhaji. I'm stuffed. Thank you and goodnight.

Used to love going to vennels with my family but over the last few months it has gone downhill, had a couple of panini’s which came out cold and ordered a baguette which they didn’t say they had run out of baguettes at the time, so I was left waiting whilst my family had nearly finished they’re lunch, not happy with the service at all for what I’d paid and I have to say £43 was extortionate for what we had!!

Best in town sourdough and delicious gazpacho

Quiet at that time of day, but excellent local with lots going on.

The food is fresh and the customer service is perfect. If you wanna experience real Italian taste this is the right place for it.

The best authentic Turkish specialty the lamb.

Greeted instantly at the door, nipped in for a nosey at the cake counter decided on 3 things for £15 which is on a more expensive scale but city prices for quality cakes and treats woman on the counter stated the offer 5 for £20 absolutely gorgeous also on too good to go so bargains available.

We visited the neighbourhood cafe. Superb service and very very welcoming. If you're visiting Durham this is where you want to go for a brew

Absolutely terrific breakfast, a family of four dined well here. The negatives are that you can’t book, we arrived at 09:15 (Sunday) and it was almost full. Also if you are sat near the door on a cold autumn or winters day, get used to either getting up and shutting the door or shouting ‘can you shut the door please’ at customers entering or leaving. Genuinely incredible that so many people drift through a door without checking whether it is shutting. We were freezing! Please invest in some door closers! I’m not picking though, the food and service are superb. We had a pancake stack (delicious), avo poached eggs and chilli (ace), two poached eggs on toast (demolished) and a toasted tea cake for the tiny fella. All were served with a smile. All were very very nice. So nice I forgot to take a photo!

Fantastic food, lovely wine and great service, would definitely recommend visiting this restaurant!

It is not really that great. More batter than fish. Very crowed. A popular place, not really sure why…

Although the English breakfast was average, we loved the service and atmosphere, and we didn't have to wait a lot to get in.

Called in with friends for a quick hot drink on a wet afternoon. Lovely little cafe. Obviously popular with uni students so a little bit noisy.