The best restaurants in St Michael's Sunderland North East

Food arrived very late very cold very greasy put straight in bin. No offer of refund and shop could not care less. Avoid

My husband and I had the duck with waffles and orange sauce, which was so delicious. My little girl was made chips and sausages off menu and she loved it. I have to say the chips were delicious. The hospitality was great and the gentleman who served us was so friendly and connected with the little one so much. We will definite visit again.

Brilliant combinations of flavour and texture. Great menu. Lovely team. Fab location. Try it! Our favourite place by a country mile!

I highly recommend this place. I went today with my friend who is a bit of a cake addict, and she said it was the best Cherry Bakewell Tart she has ever had. The selection of cakes available was amazing, and she took a good selection home with her. I had the Peanut Butter slice, it was delicious. Cake was light and fluffy with just the right amount of peanut butter cream. We both had a pot of tea with out cakes which went perfectly. The best thing about this lovely little cake shop, is the friendly, helpful and polite staff.

Whatever you do, do not book this person for a catering event for a village festival which raises money for charity. We had booked him almost a year in advance. We had correspondence a few days before the event asking how many people were coming etc. Then on the day he just didn’t show up. I had to contact him asking if he’d forgot and whether we would expect him he said he was having a few difficulties but would contact me to let me know when he would arrive. Nothing! He wouldn’t asked messages or his phone and didn’t contact us at all. We were left with 100’s of disappointed hungry people who left the event early to get food elsewhere. Completely unreliable and since then spoken to a couple of other people who have booked him for their events, he’s done he same to them. Unprofessional and a time waster.

Fantastic little restaurant, never had a bad meal there. Had friend's staying this weekend, so decided to go out for tea. They were massively impressed. 3 of us had spicy parmo and one had chicken skewers, garlic bread to start, portions were massive, homemade chips, absolutely amazing. Staff are really friendly, we are lucky as it's on our doorstep!

Beautiful clean restaurant with open kitchen, lovely food, friendly staff. Massive garlic nan bread. Went on a Thursday night and was very quiet

Give this place a wide berth if your vegetarian. Ordered a Vegetable curry only to receive a cabbage curry, huge cabbage leaves in sauce, that's it..

We visited for the first time yesterday just by chance as we were out walking. What a find! The deli sandwiches we ordered were absolutely divine. Great choice of toasties, bagels, sandwiches - was hard to choose! The homemade soup was delicious too! Didn’t have room for anything sweet so we’ll try another time. Lovely decor, attentive service - overall a lovely little place. We will most definitely be back for more!!

Ordered for a family takeaway on Bank holiday Monday. Ordered arabiata, pollo Ricco, Bolognese and risotto. Everything was absolutely beautiful apart from the pizza, it was burnt and hard like cardboard. amazing apart from that

Booked a table for 8 for a 50th wedding anniversary meal. Great food, attentive friendly staff. Fantastic evening and we were well looked after. Food was amazing as always.

Pizzas were all mashed up with toppings sliding off into the corner and juices dripping from all boxes kebab was spot on just think the drivers need to calm down a bit when delivering and there wouldn’t be an issue

They got my order wrong. I ordered 2 fish suppers, 1 large coke and 2 ben and jerry ice creams and I ended up with 2 fish suppers, 1 large coke and 14 bacon rolls. It cost £192.37. It was so good though, it was tasty, it was juicy, it tasted just right. Highly recommend and worth every penny

If Sunderland had a competition for the worst staff the Ivy Staff would win void of personality most of them not all of them but most absolutely horrendous can’t even say “how you doing you ok” the place also needs a good clean and the drinks are not cheap .

Dogs in the "no dogs" raised area again and staff not dealing with it. A couple of weeks ago a dog was eating from a diners plate on the floor. Beware of eating here. Maybe the people with the dogs can't read the signs.