The best restaurants serving Other cuisines food in County Durham North East

Lovely place with a Nice vibe. Teas and coffee are lovely and nicely priced. Scone are served deliciously warm. My other half can't have milk and they provided fresh sliced lemon for her tea. First class service, would highly recommend of you're in the area.

I love old traditional English pubs, the Royal George is certainly one of them. The landlords were lovely, very welcoming. I am amazed how reasonable the prices are and the quality of the food, the care given to the cooking, presentation are. We had a lovely lunch and enjoyed ourselves a lot. This place is a hidden gem which we will visit again soon.

I was here with my family, 19 of us, to celebrate my 80th birthday with an afternoon tea. We pre-ordered and every one of us had a three tier cake stand full of sandwiches, cakes, scones, cream and strawberries, each one individually named. The place was opened just for us and was decorated with balloons and banners. They couldn't have done more for us. Absolutely AMAZING!

Maybe one should never return to a place and expect it to have the same magical experience that you had on previous occasions. No open log fire, no friendly’ customer comes first’ attitude. Missing items from ordered food. Noisy kids running around,( to be fair I can’t blame the management for lazy parenting) Sorry for such a poor review, this place may suit some but we won’t be back.

Fuimos a este restaurante con la familia y las relaciones, así que había ocho o nueve. Reservamos la gran mesa redonda y disfrutamos de la experiencia. Nos proporcionaron toallas repaso dos veces durante la comida. Elegimos una comida familiar y nos pareció que era más que suficiente, con un montón de variedad. Este fue un tipo de comida asiática que fue complementado con una amplia variedad de bebidas. Apreciamos la oportunidad de pausar el servicio antes del plato principal. Este es un excepcional, pero no barato, restaurante.

We haven't been here for a while and 5 of us came for Sunday lunch. We hadn't booked and they were pretty busy. Four of us had roast dinner and one a toastie. Two had smaller dinners. The food was very nice indeed, we couldn't fault it but unfortunately the service wasn't great. We had 3 waitresses in all. We had to wait quite a long time to place our order and also to wait for the food. But when the food came we didn't get cutlery, then insufficient cutlery and we didn't get any vegetables. When we questioned this we got a few - eventually - but not really enough for 4 roast dinners. So excellent quality food but the service didn't match. Also when we paid they didn't charge us correctly for the 2 smaller plates.

Very comfortable delicious breakfast & a lovely atmosphere, have only had breakfast here but would highly recommend

Ordered caramel waffle latte and a Chelsea bun for myself, my friend ordered a vegan coffee and cake, by the time we’d picked up our cakes my friends’ vegan coffee was ready and a queue of people had formed so we took a seat and waited, and waited and waited. So having seen so many customers come in and get their drinks instantly I went back to ask for my caramel waffle latte, first of all I was told it had already gone out and the assistant was kind of trying to ignore me as she just continued with more orders, then she snapped ok I’ll make another but she continued with other orders and as the next person she called returned to the counter with a coffee she’d had some time and been drinking, the Starbucks assistant took her cup and tried to pass it to me saying it must be mine! I was horrified and said I don’t want someone else’s coffee, it’s already been partially consumed and handled by another customer so not hygienic but also we’re in the middle of a pandemic. She made me wait a while then passed a cup, looking nothing like the caramel waffle latte on the posters and not knowing if she’d topped up the other cup I retired to the table where my friend had finished her coffee & cake alone, so I ate my then sad dry bun and as I was leaving spoke to a supervisor about the lack of customer service, care and food hygiene safety. I asked for the branch number snd name as I wanted to put in an official complaint but was told the web address would find them, the assistant would be spoken to about making me wait and given a card for a free drink. I’ve mailed the complaints department but 10 days later not heard a thing - we won’t be visiting starbucks anytime soon, I don’t think it’s safe!!!

Review refers to Colburn Siesta Cafe - but policy quoted below applies across the group. 3 items bought were well beyond their best before date (7 months in some cases ). I returned to the cafe and staff called head office but the call confirmed that it's their policy to keep selling items after best by and refused to refund/exchange. When I looked - some bags of crisps on the shelf had BB dates of Jan 2024. I had to take the time to send photos and make a full complaint through the website- which really made a frustrating situation much worse. There was no notice that items were past their BB and all were sold at full price. All 3 items were stale and clearly affected by their age. Toasties and paninis were fine - not great and quite expensive - but fine and I would have certainly gone and used the cafe again if it had a bit more respect/care for customers.

Lovely place with lovely staff members, not a bad word to say about anyone or any of the food, will definitely be returning, would recommend to anyone who’s looking for a nice quick lunch or desert

A great place for a light lunch after a walk, but we wre a bit disappointed that the choice was very limited. Seems strange to serve crisps with a baked potato! I enjoyed my quiche.

We stopped while passing through the town wile visiting the area. Food is unique and delicious. Not your average pub grub. We had the mixed grill in their signature peanut and lime marinade. Absolutely delicious and tender. Never had anything quite like it!

Visited Durham recently and ate here twice. Excellent food and tremendous value unlike most other eateries. Well worth a visit.

Peri peri chicken was lovely and spicy. Good to have an peri peri option in the area. Communication could be better. Price and portion good.

Met up with some mates in Stanley before starting our road trip down to Dover then Calais, they were already tucking into some breakfast goodies, so I opted for a Full English and a coffee for myself, just to be sociable. Reading through some of these reviews and I’m wondering if I was in the same place? I found the staff were very attentive, polite and friendly, the breakfast beautifully cooked, well presented and substantial, the coffee excellent. Shamrock Bar in Stanley is a decent little cafe that serves decent food, I’m more than happy to recommend.