The best restaurants serving British food in Amble West with Warkworth Northumberland North East

Best ice cream ever! Even a play area for the children to let off some steam and lovely staff members who were serving me ice cream!

Visited this place a few months ago to meet up with friends and liked it so much have made a return visit with some different friends! There is lots of choice in the food, it is very reasonably priced, and the style of the place is welcoming and inviting. Very pleasant staff. Half the premises have antiques, curios, and other delightful items for sale so well worth a browse and a purchase.

I will start with an overview of our group purely because I would like the staff/management & any other diners there on the day to remember us. A group of 19 old Harley Davidson riding friends visited The Niblick on July 7th. Our average age is over 60 and we have been friends for several decades. We had travelled for our annual meetup & a ride around beautiful Northumberland and we had booked here for Sunday lunch. The food and service was fine and no complaints there. However it all went wrong when it came to taking payment. Because we are all such old friends, we just divided the bill between us all and it came to £18 per person/£36 per couple. Most restaurants would have walked down the table with a card machine & took all necessary payments and kept track of everything, however they insisted that we all go up one by one to pay, which we did. One couple paid cash which caused a little confusion to the lady taking payments, because she had initially assumed it was going to be a card payment and she had to cancel the transaction and start again. Once everyone had paid the waitress said there was an underpayment of exactually £36. We all knew that this was not possible and that we had all paid our money & had proof on our banking apps and we had witnessed the cash being paid. We asked her to check the till, but she said this was not possible and it could not be done until the evening. Because we are not the sort of group that like a fuss or commotion one of us agreed to pay the extra £36 and the restaurant assured us that they would ring us the next day and arrange us a refund. They never rang us. After a week we had still not heard anything, so we wrote to the manager of the restaurant asking for an explanation and our refund. We again heard nothing. Hence my review. Dear Manager, did your staff pocket the extra £36 (as well as the £40 tip) that day or did you just get to keep it yourself? To future group booking customers, please keep a track of your payments because the restaurant/management clearly cannot!

Cake amazing. Kept us full all day. It was tasty and packed with flavour Then coffee was a funny flavour. It was not strong. It tasted funny and wasn't nice. I think it was long life milk and a cappuccino was more like s very milky latte , with milk that tastes like sachets in b and b. Would not recommend for coffee but cake was lush.

We haven't been to The Jackdaw because our booking for April 2025 isn't being honoured we found out this morning. See below. In December 2024 we booked our meal for a Saturday night in April 2025 at The Jackdaw. It was for my 70th birthday and we chose The Jackdaw as we'd eaten there before and had lovely meals. Today I received a call from Gillian, one of the owners, to say that they had a large party that night and so they couldn't accommodate us at the time we booked.Gillian asked if we could either go the night before or for Sunday lunch. We were travelling up to Warkworth on the Friday and didn't want to rush our journey and we may well eat out on the journey up. We had other plans for the Sunday so I said no to these options. I was amazed that we were being told they wouldn't honour our booking as we had clearly booked our meal before this large party. Gillian said she would ring me back. Rupert, the other owner, called back and explained about moving furniture around for the large party and how it was for someone who'd had their 50th birthday there and now wanted their 70th birthday there. He said couldn't we eat later as they served until 9 o'clock. I was astonished at this to be honest. We didn't want to eat later than the time we booked, and possibly be on our own at that time of night in the restaurant. Rupert did apologise but that doesn't make up for the fact they haven't honoured our booking. I am left feeling really disappointed and upset. This is not what I would have expected having booked the table in December. Terrible customer service in my view.

We came Sunday for roast dinner menu. In the past, on our visits any day of the week food has been great. But we were disappointed with the beef - we wonder if a different, cheaper cut is being used. And only minimal roast potato.

Always my family’s favourite place for sunday dinner. Front of house staff make us feel so welcome and make a big deal out of my baby boy. Food always great and service always friendly.

Lovely meal. The staff had a busy evening but they soldiered on. The quiz night made the end of our evening. Will return soon