The best restaurants in Haydon and Hadrian Northumberland North East

What a great little store,rare these days to have friendly service, good tea,cakes and a good range of local magazines and general food stuff

The service, the atmosphere and the quality of food are second to none. The chef and staff show a care and a passion for food and people and this shines through. Even added a special touch at the end of our meal for our anniversary. Simply perfect and the table was so lovely too. Thank you.

Excellent pub great friendly staff we ate the cart bog pie WOW fantastic you gotta try it

We stayed in an air b&b a minutes walk from this pub and only stumbled across it because I did my usual desperate search for decent gf food - and what an amazing find! So many choices for the main dinner meal, I ended up having chicken goujons and chips which was excellent. So good we ended up coming back for sunday lunch! A whole sunday lunch pre marked gf and df, no questions, no compromises - made my holiday! Really good with the kids too. Can not recommend more.

We stayed overnight here in our camper van with Britstops and enjoyed and evening meal in the inn. It’s a precious little place with delightful decor. The staff were friendly and attentive. We enjoyed the Teryaki salmon and peppercorn chicken breast. Delicious generous portions We’d definitely recommend it, especially after a long day visiting Vindolanda, the Roman army museum and Hadrian’s wall. A great pit stop

Special treat to celebrate our wedding anniversary. Beautiful castle, attentive staff, food was amazing. Thoroughly enjoyed our visit. Only downside is its very expensive.

Absolutely beautiful place, the owners and the staff couldn’t do enough for you. Went as a family 4 kids 2 adults everyone loved it highly recommended!

I've been to Pioneer cafe before for cake but never for lunch and it's always been without fault. Today we queued to get in which is usually the norm here, it shows how popular it is. Halloumi flatbread, absolutely gorgeous and only £7.95, the other meal we had was equally as good. Didn't wait too long either. Polite and friendly staff even though they were very busy they are all good at their jobs. Will definitely return.

This is a potential goldmine in Haydon Bridge - but they need to up their game a little with their service to make sure people come back. We popped in for a quick lunch. The young lady serving took a minute to look up (there was only one other table in) and took our order. We ordered a salad and a toasted sandwich to share, with coffees and some iced water. Coffees came quickly enough, but no water. We waited quite a while for the food - which was lovely when it came. But while we waited, we saw another older couple come in and order. They waited even longer than us - and didn't get cutlery to eat salad and coleslaw! The original server was 'busy' folding napkins rather than clearing tables (quite a few with dirty dishes and needing wiped) These are such simple things to rectify - a bit of training required! Wonder how they would cope with a full cafe? Do hope they get this sorted...

Went for a Stargazing weekend. Positives: excellent food and accommodation. Location is ideal for walking Hadrian's wall/ visiting Sycamore Gap. Brilliant little microbrewery and tap room. Bar staff very friendly and knowledgeable. Negatives: very awkward interaction with one restaurant waitress on the first evening. Seen to the table but only 3 menus for 4 of us. She said she would get one but didn't. My wife went up to get it after some time only for the waitress to say " I can get that for you"! A bit late. Followed by no-one coming to take a drink or food order for over 20 minutes so we had to attract her attention. She did not apologise for the delay butclaimed to have been busy. We had watched her setting up tables for breakfast instead yet this was around 7.40 pm. When challenged on this she became aggressive rather than apologetic. She took the order but when asked for a jug of water, she ignored the request and stormed off. (the water did arrive, she just failed to acknowledge the request. This put our group at unease as we had 2 more breakfast and 1 dinner service to go! This may seem petty but it reaput a dampener on the weekend. Her customer service skills were non existent. All the other servers were polite, frank attentive. The bar seems to discourage later evening drinks as all the chairs/stools get put up on the tables as people leave, well before last orders. After coming in from the stargazing event around 10pm on a Sunday night, we weren't even sure that the bar was open. It was and the team were friendly but it just wasn't a welcoming environment to see the place ready for hoovering! Finally, the stargazing event was badly organised. There was no information at check in. We got most info from one of the waitresses and even then the directions weren't clear. We have been to an event down south before which had better presented information. The actual set up is very good with a great guest speaker. Unfortunately for us, rain and cloud stopped us from using the telescopes outside. The planetarium was an excellent facility. It is a shame that these issues affected what promised to be a great visit to a lovely pub.

We had the pleasure of having our wedding ceremony at the beautiful Garden Station on Saturday 1st June 2024. Terry and Jill couldn't have been more welcoming, helpful and accommodating. We love this place it has an amazing calming aura and will always have a place in our hearts. Thank you again for making our day so special. Steve and Katherine x

Very disappointed no atmosphere felt cold, got there at 9 mins to 2. Albeit food till 2pm wanted soup and sandwich but was told the chef had already closed the kitchen. I had a black tea which had a coffee taste. Husband had a pint which was cloudy and of poor quality. Would avoid this place at all costs. Everything you don't expect in a pub.

A very strange pizza place where you can only order pizza after 3 pm. Everything is covered in batter and deep fried with the haggis literally dripping fat, although it was tasty (!)

Attentive staff. Relaxed atmosphere. Great food. Wonderful sun terrace overlooking the river.

Staying near Hexham on holiday so this was our first time using Indus valley and I have to say it was absolutely beautiful. Piping hot and both meals packed with top quality well cooked meat, very generous portions too. I really couldn't fault it