The best restaurants in County Durham North East

Must visit always my go to over anywhere in Durham for a great bit of grub. Staff always friendly and welcoming most of know my order off by heart. Would recommend to anyone visiting or from the area!

Out for a walk & popped in & booked a table for Sunday lunch. Great service, pipping hot food & plenty of gravy. Lovely food at a reasonable price.

Food was excellent all staff very polite and helpful.A very good menu especially the deserts.We would certainly recommend The Copper Mine.

Keep in mind there's 3 parts of runa farm. We had our wedding here this year and we're now ready to write a honest review. 1. The accommodation, brilliant, rooms are lovely, expensive but worth it, breakfast is amazing, staff for accommodation are top of their game and inclusive. I highly recommend them and we're planning to stay again. 5 star all the way! 2. The wedding it's self, the team at the actual venue are hard workers, on the ball. There was some mistakes, for example we only got half the drinks we paid for but over all they are amazing at keeping the whole day together, never seen people work so hard. The food however wasnt great, dry and not very nice, kids food was amazing though. They need to be more clear about where food and drinks are for people. I do not recommend a buffet style but more sit down so everyone gets the food they should. 5 star, dispite the mistakes like no drinks put out or issues with food they were brilliant. The day ran as it should. 3. The apartment group, the people who plan the wedding with you. This would be a 1 star, these were the only reason I had stress about my wedding, they added random people to the day, charged twice for items, and all they said was "sorry typos" check your bill and check it twice! They constantly got things wrong, I emailed corrections constantly and had to get management involved and they still got it wrong. They clearly have zero experience and it was very very upsetting. The amount of times they tried to rip us off was a joke, just really keep a eye on your bill! I actually had to drive a hour to the venue once as they wouldn't respond to me so went on a open evening to get them to actually reply to a email. Once they've got you signed on they don't care. Then after the wedding they asked me to do a review! I did a nice one for them for an award! They didn't even get my partner's name correct when emailing back thanks! Changed my partner's gender as well! Surely they should at least get that part correct. Dealing with the apartment group was the only thing that brought me any wedding stress, they had me in tears one day with the amount of "mistakes" they made. They give zero cares on complaints too. So I'm summary, runa farm is amazing, but you have to deal with the apartment group which arent. If you want the venue have your eyes open and be prepared to correct all them mistakes they make. When you get to the actual day and the wedding team at the venue take over, they'll pull it around for you. Even they said they've never seen it so bad with ours and then trying to bump us.

Loved this place but unfortunately it has closed down , the food was always delicious and very reasonable

Mince and dumplings, has to be the finest dish I have ever had. Cannot recommend it enough. Perfection on a plate. The steak slice is pretty awesome too

This appears a small cafe but has more cosy seating upstairs. Staff are friendly and efficient and thr breakfast was as good as we have ever had with a good choice. Well done. We will be back.

Really nice spot on the riverfront, and the flexible design-your-own-pizza made it easy to get a tasty vegetarian pizza. Our waiter, Thomas, was great, very flexible and helpful and helped get the food to us as quick as he could despite a 25+ person table ordering! Worth returning to.

Ordered our takeaway on a Saturday night it came within 30 minutes it was hot and delicious. It is unusual for any takeaway to arrive on time and be hot but Mumbai managed this I had chicken takeaway masala with pilau rice and spicy chips i would recommend this takeaway/restaurant 😋 👌

Absolutely fantastic pub we meet there on the first Monday of the month the landlady Chelsea and Gary are very welcoming the Durham and district prostate cancer group ❤️ love this pub they serve food which is delicious have a karaoke night on a Saturday evening bingo night Wednesday quiz night Thursday great pub

We go here as a group on a regular basis and always have great food. The staff are friendly and good fun. We go as a group and it's never too loud, we can always hear the conversation. Prices are reasonable and food is good quality. Highly recommend Deanos. Already booked for our next meet up

Service was excellent, lovely friendly team who smiled all the time. Scones were awesome, vanilla latte was one of the best and earl grey was delightful.

Great place for families to explore the countryside

Ordered takeaway thinking go for quality told hour for delivery two hours later still waiting!! Why offer delivery service when can't meet demand? Will not use again

Friendly staff, Was made to feel welcome.