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

Just come back from a lovely carvery Sunday lunch. Excellent choice of freshly prepared meat joints and veg, excellent friendly service, excellent value.

John and Gemma were lovely, Top class customer service thankyou ill be back 🙂

I rated Chapters as a 5/5 last time I was in Durham. This time I felt they fell a bit short. Chapters is a very busy tea room and obviously popular. When my wife and I visited we ordered tea, coffee and a couple of scones. The scones appeared almost immediately. We waited for the drinks. As the scones cooled we decided we had better get them eaten while waiting for the drinks. Eventually with the scones finished I decided to go and hurry up the drinks. To their credit the drinks were out fairly quickly. Overall I feel Chapters maybe needs more staff on tea/coffee duty. Nice but not as good as last time.

Cathedral cafes all seem the same. Disorganised but worth it in the end. Staff friendly but seemed a tad stressed. Didn’t seem to be adequately staffed. Food very nice and a decent price. Lovely filled rolls and the salad with dressing was so tasty. Scones and tea lovely. Not easy to find a table but perseverance won the day.

Wetherspoons always busy and cheap ale

Usual Spoons. Served my beer in a warm glass, I suspect straight from the washer 😐

Sent my passport to Durham for renewal 2 weeks ago, no communications from anyone at this office of its arrival even though it was sent via special delivery, I was told that apparently it closed down about 5 days ago due to 'storm damage' but the building doesn't look like there is any storm damage, they don't even know where my application is, they haven't even scanned it on their computers, customer service don't even know if the office is open, Useless, what is the point of customer services if they cannot track applications and they cannot give any updates, or help you to locate your application?

Came in lunchtime and was not disappointed food was great really well cooked and presented staff really helpful and nothing any trouble even though it was very busy

Stopped here a couple of times for warming hot chocolate. Staff were polite and the toasties were very nice too

Grim. Miserable bar staff. Toilets disgusting, no lights or toilet roll, sanibins foll of bottles and other rubbish. One recommendation if you are thinking of going here, use another pub for hygiene needs. Ironically the beer- Camden ales - was fine. Could have easily been a great visit - but it really wasn't.

The hotel was lovely however the restaurant was poor - would not recommend. The staff were kind and did take off two portions of fries from the bill due to the problems with the meal. Most of the meals were not hot by the time they got to our table. Two people had the fish dish which they said was very nice however it didn’t come with many potatoes at all. The chicken tikka masala wasn’t really a chicken tikka masala (rather tomato chicken) and a different chicken dish was really quite over cooked.

The food was average, but had a lovely glass of Chardonnay. Also a massive shout out to Jennifer who was an amazing waitress very attentive and friendly

Ordered two 'Croque Monsieur' and what arrived was two ham and cheese toasties lathered in poor quality English mustard? Why English Mustard? With stale crisps and wilted lettuce. Very poor and given the price quite surprising, especially given that there are numerous much nicer cafés in the city. Staff rather surly as well.