The best restaurants in County Durham North East

It's a shame they're out of business now. Does anyone know if they moved to somewhere else?

Food and atmosphere is really great

A canteen kitchen serving food during the day. It has a micro brewery in the back which opens up a on a weekend, with some wonderful ales. A good friendly crowd, make for an enjoyable experience.

This has become my regular lunch stop. Food is excellent and the staff are great.

It has the best beer garden in Durham the bar has a great selection of drinks. The staff are always pleasant. We recomy it to everyone

Foods always perfect, staff are chill, everyone works hard to bring quality food to the customer

Brilliant and friendly team with lovely mobile bar. Great communication throughout the booking and the event itself.

tastes good but the meat portions are far far too small

My favourite Farm shop. Great customer service . I bought a pork tender loin, 3 rashers, 1 pork, red onion & marmalade sausage, scotch egg and 2 fruit scones all for £13.13 which is a great price. Has everything you can think of in the shop, spoilt for choice! I definitely will be back. I did today. A slice of quiche, pk 2 lemon & corriander chicken skewers, jam ( is vegan) large jammie dodger biscuit and 2 fruit scones all for £14.42 .

There was a party of 10 visited last night on 7th Nov, 5 adults and 5 children. Took 3 hours to be served a 3 course meal, one starter came out after everyone has eaten. The lasagne was inedible and very dry, the service was appalling never asked if we needed anything or everything was okay. Never asked if we needed anymore drinks and 1 and a half hours to receive a pint that was ordered. Then 40 minutes to receive ice cream and other puddings, that we had to go and ask about. The place is very nice just a shame the staff are not interested in there jobs will not be returning.

We go to santonios 8 or 10 times a year. The food and service is exceptional. Very Very good. The staff are so pleasant. Would recommend to anyone.

Beautiful people, delicious food the best breakfast ever and fabulous cakes 😘

Great place it was my 1st time here it’s got great food and a good selection of drinks at very affordable prices also has very friendly staff I will definitely be going back here

WOW! I've been hearing rave reviews about this place for ages and finally made it down and it exceeded all expectations. We had the smoked salmon with Avo pancake & asparagus and both were flawless. I used to run a brunch service in a restaurant and so i appreciate the perfect cooking, timing, seasoning and presentation of everything. The smoked salmon was incredible quality, avo perfectly seasoned and asparagus cooked perfectly. Generous portions all round, flavour combos and the pancakes were delicious. 11/10! Can't wait to go back already. Beautiful interior, and the owners and staff are just a delight, so friendly - cannot recommend highly enough. Looking at the sweet pancakes that were coming out of the kitchen i'll be back to try the whole menu. :) Great coffee too. New fav in Durham. An absolute gem of a place. So cute. x

Very tasty pizza , don’t get many chances to order on a lunchtime but will defo order again 👍