The best restaurants serving British food in Dawdon County Durham North East

First time visit to Paws for 5 , had an excellent morning Kaiser our 18 week old Rottweiler puppy throughly enjoyed himself. We both had a lovely fried breakfast, tea and Lattes at very reasonable prices.

Beautiful decor, great choice of wines, wonderful service with sharing boards of food.

Highly recommend this place. Burgers with fries and breakfast sarnie were both delicious. Very good coffee too. Really friendly staff. We must have walked past here so many times. We have been missing out! It’s great. Will be back. Soon!

After noticing it was dog friendly as we were walking past we decided to pop in . What an excellent choice we made . We were greeted by 2 extremely friendly ladies who made us both feel very welcome . I decided on Eggs Benedict and a latte which were both delicious. From the Doggie Menu sausages were chosen and were devoured with much licking of lips . My daughter who pops to seaham quite often has been informed of this little gem 💎. Ty ladies we both thoroughly enjoyed popping in . Mike and Nellie

This used to be a wonderful place to visit, all members of staff were friendly, the food was always piping hot, well portioned and very reasonable. It has undergone a few changes, one being the name - now named "The Lighthouse by Poppies". It seems the new owners have made a few changes, the decor has been vastly improved, however there are couple of new members of staff who just aren't as friendly. Furthermore, the quality of the food is terrible compared to all our previous visits. The chips which used to be absolutely wonderful are now terrible - I'm not certain if a different oil is being used, but the quality is just not there, and the meal was also served warm as opposed to hot. To add to this, the prices are much more expensive, even a can of coke is £1.50 - a can that came from a multipack! I'm afraid what was a regular place and a highlight of Seaham has now been crossed off the list. Finally, a "Traditional Turkish Breakfast"... It's an English cafe for goodness sake!!!

The Caesar salad was very poor, croutons were just like stale bread, not crispy and the chicken was cold with skin still on. New York burger with gluten free bread was very dry. Lime and soda was flat and very weak. Overall a very poor and overpriced meal. Definitely would not be returning.

Fish and chips were just Ok! Thought the fat could have done with changing.The Staff looked sick of their lives. Wont be going back in a hurry.

Vile customer service. We were screamed at the bald chef, and had a very bad from attitude from the blonde girl on the till. Will not be returning, kids are very upset. Do not recommend.

Hi I'm a regular at the Black Truffle in Seaham... I pop in with friends for coffee and sometimes a nice cake or 2 .... the staff are great... very friendly and always have a smile on their faces. The food is 2nd to none and fairly priced and would recommend a visit. You can also get your drinks to go...

We dropped in here for coffee on a wild January day and sat on the outside deck to watch the waves breaking over the walls. The coffee was very good and the cherry Bakewell remarkable. Lovely staff, clean toilets, nice place all round. If you park in the harbour car park be aware that the wardens are on the ball!

I like Witherspoon but this place is packed out every morning till noon with people (. many pensioners ) drinking free refills coffee till it comes out of their ears!.. Trying to get a table is murder so stopped going ,adding the entrance is full of smokers

Sunday lunch ok £15 expensive,there was one carrot on our plate we asked for a few more they gave us 3 and charged us £3 50 how mean maybe it was to pay for there plastic flower deco hanging from ceiling, lunch at valentinos seaham is better value £10 50 and more enjoyable.we will be going to valentinos from now on.

Highly recommended, best fish i ever tasted. Clean tidy, serving staff were excellent

Scruffy !! Very disappointing experience and will definitely not be returning 🤢 Called in after visiting Hello Sunshine on the harbour front. We had a nice walk around Seaham and fancied something different than the usual chain coffee shops. Looked quirky on getting inside. Went to the counter to order and was given a teacup & teapot, a coffee , spoons, milk, sugar to carry back to the table (no tray to carry everything) more than 1 trip was needed, very aware of my footing over the uneven manhole cover with a missing tile and left a hole. (Very aware as I’m just recovering from broken ankle) Baked potato with cold Mexican chicken. Potato not baked just microwaved as no tasty crispy skin at all. Steak and ale pasty was expensive for a little bit of chewy meat. No salt and pepper anywhere so I went back to the serving area and no one came to see what i wanted. Upon sitting for a while I started to notice that it wasn’t rustic and it was in fact really SCRUFFY. We were seated next to the back door and WOW it was horrific for a food establishment, muck would need to be scrubbed and scraped off, the cobwebs were all over, ceiling and walls. The doors where the shelving is were disgustingly dirty. £20 down the drain. HOW CAN A FOOD ESTABLISHMENT BE ALLOWED TO STAY OPEN AND TRADE IN THAT STATE!! 🤮. SHOCKING