The best restaurants in County Durham North East

Nice and reasonably priced Lovely garlic bread with cheese Nice carbonara and Bolognese

Great night on New years Eve with Kara Morgan. Great friendly staff and a wonderful buffet supplied by Maggie and friends, thankyou 😊

Absolutely fantastic meal & service for a party of 11 people. The food was some of the best Italian food we have eaten and the service was first class. Shelley our main waitress was super helpful and attentive, she’s a real asset to the business. We would 100% recommend and return. Thankyou for a lovely evening.

Amazing selection of drinks, the staff are friendly and so are the locals. The atmosphere in there is friendly and there's always someone to share a pint with.

Variety of tasty food available - a nice place to pop in for breakfast or lunch! The staff are friendly and helpful. It doesn't take long to get served and prices are reasonable.

We took this way as a change from Barnard Castle, Middleton in Teesdale, Alston route. What a super drive through Stanhope and up lovely quiet roads in beautiful countryside. Hill and dale, valley after valley, rivers and burns and more stone barns than you can imagine. We just happened upon this eating place and decided that it might be the last option. We were glad we did. The staff were very friendly and helpful with a bit of humour which always goes down well. The loos are upstairs, period in style and immaculate. The whole building must have been Edwardian Tearooms and still retains many of the original features. Furnishings are “ eclectic “, I think that is the right expression. The food is homemade not the often seen homecooked. The latter is really factory food heated up like you get at Franky & Bennys. I had homemade Steak pie, very tasty and filling. I forget my wife’s choice but she enjoyed it. They had a new lady cook who took over the day before. On this experience we will be back. Aside from the food, most of the antiques seem to have disappeared except the ones we were sitting on. Don’t except to see the stuff shown in the photos, it’s not there unless they restock. Look forward to our next visit. Thanks.

We were looking for a restaurant in Durham and found this place early one Friday evening. The menu is not extensive but I would prefer to see a few dishes done well rather than lots of dishes done just ok! We ordered pasta, a pizza and the house red. The food and service was outstanding. We would recommend Coviello without hesitation.

My and my sister received excellent service from polite and kind staff here. Drinks were incredibly well made and we had an exciting and interesting menu to choose from. I definitely recommend the Irish rose syrup in an Ethiopian cold brew as it’s a lovely and unique flavour combination! Plenty of milk alternatives are offered for those who are lactose intolerant. Service is efficient and prices are really great! Homemade vegan and gluten free cakes are offered which is a rare find in Bishop Auckland. I couldn’t recommend the Fox’s Tale enough! Support this local business.

Staff really really made my day. Friendly,helpful, and nothing was any trouble (even delivered my freshly baked pork pie to my van)... Thank you to the staff 👍... oh, and the pork pie was Delicious 😋

Wonderful staff, good food, clean toilet. Gave us a sausage for our two dogs! We will definitely come back and sample some more goodies!😄😄

Nice rooms.good service and good food.

I have no words. The food we received from this restaurant has to be the best Italian food I have ever ate. You can tell it was homemade, it was simply stunning. Me and my partner are absolutely raving about this place, I would recommend everyone to try, don’t judge a book by its cover as I can’t express how delicious the food was. It wasn’t your ordinary average bolognese and carbonara that we were expecting, it had something extra special to it. Both the chef and waitress we spoke to were so friendly and went out their way to make our night special. Can’t express how amazing the food was, 100% recommend to anyone wanting to give this restaurant a go. You will not regret it.

A diamond amongst cafes. Great home-cooked food, friendly service, generous portions at prices that would please even a Yorkshireman, and unbelievably good chips of the kind that used to be standard decades ago, hand-cut and deep fried in fresh lard I imagine, keeping their texture taste and freshness even when cooling, and putting most of the chips in more expensive places to shame. We followed our steaklets with two large portions of minty aero cheesecake, which I imagine was home made too, deliciously rich and creamy. It's worth coming up the A68 just for this - well done ladies!

Amazing friendly pub/inn Set in a lovely village. Rooms were great and clean. Breakfast was perfect. Stayed here as were at KYNREN (2.5 miles away). So much more to do around the area too Had a great night as there was a village raffle on at night. All the locals super friendly too . Many thanks to George and his team for a great stay

Please make proper fried rice, not boiled soggy rice!!! The rice just killed the whole dish. Won’t be ordering again. No card payment as well, only cash 🙄