The best restaurants in Northern Parishes Stockton-on-Tees North East

Visited for an informal business meeting. Sadly no decaf coffee available, WiFi very slow and mobile connection pretty much non existent. 3 hours max stay as non-residents and you must put your car reg in at reception. Honestly not that welcoming, though it was clean and clearly well used by office tenants. Not sure how to respond to the response left by the owner, so I'm editing here instead. Definitely your place we visited, and at shortly after 10.15am this morning I was told there was no decaf available.

called in for lunch while staying at the hotel food was very good and nice surrounding they were due to close but kept the restaurant open so we could have lunch thank you

The Vane Arms is now doing breakfasts - and what a treat is was. We had the small breakfast which had everything you could want on a full English. The food was excellent quality, all cooked nicely, served hot and well presented. You can even specify how you want your eggs (we opted for fried). Best breakfast we have had in ages. Service was excellent too. This wasn’t our first visit and it won’t be our last.

Just had a pint of real ale - should serve more real ale choices! Eventhough never had any food this time the Sunday lunches looked very good and everybody seemed to be enjoying them!

Popped in for lunch had hot roast sandwich with gravy. Was really nice would definitely go back. Friendly staff beautiful views of the golf course

From the moment of arrival , with the total professionalism and friendliness of reception to being given an immaculate room, this stay was first class. Breakfast team and food were lovely - and every member of the staff, were great. I’d be proud to have them on my team and we were delighted to stay there. Thank you

Very friendly staff, helped and supported in every way possible, will be returning

10/10 service, always friendly and great coffee!

Restaurant area is better than the pub side, which isn’t that great for locals. I’d go a lot more if dogs were allowed. Beer garden could be nicer too.

Had a lovely Sunday lunch. The beef was fantastic.

Clean, tidy and well maintained with a good selection of drinks on draught and in bottles.

Main carvery gret. Server very funny. Poor young lady serving us on tables was clearly new and chucked in the deep end without training. What a lovely well presented and polite young lady too, clearly trying her absolute best to manage issues arising. Absolutely not her fault but down to lack of training by the manager! Dessert wrong twice. Cancelled. Asked the manager in passing if we could have our table cleared and though she had empty hands herself, instead of taking them there and then she just replied ' oh I'll tell her' and walked off! Staff have told me for quite a long time now that the manager, Annabelle, is awful to work under. To refer to the staff as 'her' is awful to hear. These are people, they have names! Treat your staff with the respect they deserve and give them adequate training and become a good manager or ship out and let someone come in and lift the glum mood in there!

Our visit was for a very important anniversary and although the initial greeting was friendly it was downhill after that. Ten minutes after arriving we were finally asked if we wanted a drink, another ten minutes and wrong drinks appeared, the reason given was they were busy although there were still empty tables. The menu was surprisingly limiting, more a lunchtime than dinner but I picked the burger and my wife had sea bream. The burger was ok but only came with fries, no salad just a teaspoon full of dreadful so called coleslaw. My wife’s fish was appalling, tiniest fillet with one new potato cut into four, she asked for more potatoes and by the time they arrived we had finished our meal. We spoke to the young lady head waiter who said they were busy and that the portions were normal before reluctantly taking a small amount off the bill. Big disappointment for our golden anniversary, we will not be coming back.

The drive through service was very good, more or less immediate. The food was hot, good and value for money.

Order food a table of 6 3 people were served finished meal that was ok, over 1 hour wait for rest. NO apology no Communication. Very Poor quality when what did arrive. Disappointing such a fab location and out door area. In answer to your reply to my review. maybe act on your reviews - employ a chef and teach your staff some customer service skills. acknowledgement or apology goes a long way leaving half a table with out food or communication it good! reading your reviews two weeks earlier the food standard was poor for Mother’s Day & still poor.