The best restaurants serving British food in Rothbury Northumberland North East

Just like when i was a young lad, fish and chip van stopping here and there serving great food, was told by a lady in the butchers in Rothbury to look on the website and then you know where he will be, did not let us down, lovely fresh fish.

Another fantastic lunch!! Good service, excellent food and good value. Friendly staff and fabulous views the carvery was great, fish's and chips brilliant and a good choice of beers and wines.

A Christmas treat! A very friendly, comfortable dinning room with fantastic views. Delicious food, good sized portions, well presented. Must try the Christmas menu, seafood cocktail or haggis bon bons for starter and of course delicious turkey. Although all the other options looked delicious too. Great selection of deserts to follow. A real gem, cant wait to try the Sunday lunch venue in the new year.

This has got to be one of the worst experiences of going away for a mini break...originally booked for my partner's birthday in January. We turned up for check in time and the whole place was closed, absolutely no sign of life. I rang the host to see what was happening and apparently the person who should have been there had broken down, but they shouldn't be too long. Could we let ourselves in, which we did with their instructions trying to find our way through a very dark pub to the room we booked. On the first impression the room was amazing, gorgeously set. However, I had asked for chocolate covered strawberries as a surprise for my partner, which there were none to be found. About an hour later there was still no sign of anyone arriving and we were alone in this pub/hotel with nothing to do. We had hoped to eat and drink at the pub on it opening. I rang the host again and it was still unclear when someone was coming to open up everything. In Elsdon there is very little around so there wasn't even a chance we could pop somewhere else. As the evening went on we were no closer to finding out when we'd have someone there to speak to so I said to the host we were driving home. I was devastated we'd been sat around waiting on my partner's birthday, which was supposed to be a lovely little trip away. The host did very kindly provide me with a refund, for that I am grateful and said we could stay another night some time through the year to make up for it. This leads me into the next major disappointment with this place.......we got a night booked in for the first weekend in November. which the host confirmed over text message. I tried to message the night before to double check everything was ok for us coming, none of my messages would send so I rang the pub to check and what do I find out but the room we supposedly were booked into was already booked out to someone else. It's a good job I rang to check as this would have been another wasted journey with a hugely disappointing experience. I spoke to a lovely lady at the pub explained the situation and I was told she would try to speak to the host and get her to ring me back. However, I have never heard back from the host, none of my messages continued to go through to her. I am bitterly disappointed with this whole experience as I have been let down twice with little thought or consideration. I would never recommend this place to anyone.

I'm writing this as there aren't many reviews food is always excellent run by geordie ratcliffe as this was his late wife's cafe for years he runs the cafe as Jeanette would i may be a friend but he serves excellent food keep up the good work geordie see you tomorrow morning around 9.30a.m

They hosted a group dinner for approximately 40 people that they couldn't manage at all. The pizza was older than Lord Armstrong himself. I don't think the 'stew' can actually be defined as stew, just beef and mushrooms with gravy. Half of us finished our mains before the other half were served, and the restaurant obviously tried to serve us all at once. The service was just extremely slow. They also lost the main one of our group had ordered. One person ordered a gluten free cheesecake and the restaurant didn't actually have it. Half the times we went to the bar for drinks it was unattended.

We was celebrating a birthday in a group of 7 women. The place was beautiful, clean, spacious and well cared for. We had an amazing party in the massive kitchen. The living room is huge and stunning. The bedrooms are spacious, spotlessly clean, with comfy beds. We also went to the pub below, the locals was so friendly and the bar staff was outstanding.

The smell of cooking oil just hits you when you open the door. Not an encouraging sign. Mediocre coffee and cakes. Seats dated and uncomfortable. Whole place looks untidy and unkempt Asked lady who was serving where the toilets were. Was directed round to the back of the building to a filthy muddy courtyard only to find there was a handwritten sign on the door saying toilet was closed. Thank goodness there are lovely public toilets just round the corner. What a shame that this seems to be the only cafe Rothbury has on what used to be a lovely Main Street but sadly like so many other towns is showing signs of decline. Will take a picnic and a flask the next time we visit Rothbury!