The best restaurants in County Durham North East

Good food served by nice people..

Ordered a take away and can't not fault it. Very tasty and filling and worth the money. Will definitely order again. Delivery was within the time limit. Recommend to anyone who wants a nice Chinese. Michelle & Gary

Disappointed with my order. Regular chicken wrap these used to be huge but not quite small and the naan was dry as it was heated up in the microwave. Chips were barely cooked

Bang on! Good portions, arrived earlier than stated. We’ll be back again!! 👌🏼

Haven’t been to LR for a while but won’t be leaving it that long again. Chowder was excellent. The rest of the party had sandwiches which were well filled and delicious. Staff were superb and very professional.

Had a weekend in Durham and looked for an Indian prior to our visit, it didn’t disappoint, loved the visit, all four of us enjoyed an excellent meal, had great service from the whole team in a lovely place built into some ancient walls. Highly recommend!

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

Went for a wedding lovely day and night can't fault it

We normally come here once a year to celebrate a birthday but was super disappointed with the experience we had this year and I’m not usually one to write bad reviews. I was looking forward to celebrating my birthday here with my friends. My husband made our reservation for 15-16 people 3 weeks in advance. They sent us an email saying that for large parties, they normally require meal selections ahead of time, but excused it for us and told us to just be patient with the staff (which we always are, we truly didn’t mind, we know the food is worth waiting for!). We had 4 extras try to join our reservation, but the staff said they couldn’t make that work so we did not let them come, no problem! By the time we got seated, the table only had 14 chairs. We kindly & patiently asked them for two more (as our reservation was for 15-16 people) and the manager or whoever she was, came over to our table and approached us in a terrible, extremely negative manner, telling us that our party size was unacceptable (even though we booked in advance and it was accepted). We tried to show her our email exchange with a staff member confirming the party of 15-16 people, in addition to the excusal of preselected meals but she didn’t care (we were still going to pay together on one main bill which was discussed in the email). About 3 minutes or so after this insane reaction, and before even ordering anything, she told us we were going to “annihilate the kitchen” and continued to be so angry with us. This was the worst interaction I’ve ever had from a restaurant employee and she ruined our celebratory birthday dinner that we were all looking forward to. After me and my friends were left speechless with how we were just treated, we left. It was unfortunate because I know this place can be hard to get into, so some servers definitely missed out on a few tables but we did not feel like staying where it was made clear we weren’t welcomed, and instead, were more of an inconvenience to them. If they had told us prior to this, that they couldn’t accommodate our party of 15-16 people, we would’ve understood, we know it’s a lot. But this woman waited until we were sat, to come over and be incredibly rude to us, without even greeting us or working something out (which we would’ve been open to!). Attaching a screenshot below for proof of our conversation. Extremely disappointed with how this was handled and bummed we had this experience that stayed with us for the end of the night.

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

Great atmosphere, friendly staff and well priced good food

Beautifully decorated restaurant. Fabulous meal, friendly owner and staff. Good value in a lovely atmosphere. Definitely one of our favourite places.

Takeaway… Quite bland not enough sauce, made us feel quite sick after for hours ended up going to bed. IMO the s&p chicken was well off its normal, minging in fact! Spending £40+ on a takeaway is extortionate for 2 people unfortunately won’t be returning.

Great parking close by. Access has lots of steps to negotiate with suitcases. Friendly reception staff. Room was lovely. Contemporary feel with a massive bath and lovely shower with nice toiletries. Plenty of hot water and fluffy towels. Tea/coffee tray very good. Noise from people entering and exiting pub was noted. Luckily, the noise stopped by 11pm. Room was very hot. Could not open sash windows easily. Electric fan noisy and very dusty. Lots of road noise. Barnard castle is a lovely, busy little town. Pub staff were lovely. Unfortunately, food had stopped being served at 4pm on Sunday, when we arrived. Looked nice, though.Breakfast was nice, plenty of choice. Oat milk and gluten free toast was available on request. Salmon and scrambled eggs on toast were really nice, but toast was dry without spread or butter. I did not ask for dairy free spread, which was my fault.Waitress was a bit grumpy, but we were very happy with overall experience for a one night stay

Meal was fine, was asked if we needed anything sauces so asked for gravy to go with the beef sandwich and chips. As leaving was told we owed for the gravy boat £1, which you would have thought it would be standard with the beef. Disappointed