Reviews in County Durham

great food, great service and fantastic staff

Had a fantastic meal on Saturday 10th February celebrating our wedding anniversary may return just for food as hotel was not acceptable (which I will be emailing separately)

Four of us ate from the Happy Hour menu, choosing starters and mains. Great value for money! Lovely place and the food and service were great. Not the first time we’ve been and it won’t be the last

Great value midweek menu of £10 for 3 courses. Food is delicious and presented in a lovely way. It is my go to place for a tasty meal at a great price. The surroundings are quirky and the staff are lovely and friendly. Can't recommend this place enough.

Excellent service, great food an lovely atmosphere

Started our spa day off with lunch which was really nice and staff really helpful and friendly then went to spa and treatment once again staff really welcoming treatment mine was lovely and lovely young lady the other person’s treatment not so good booked a full body massage and asked if could concentrate on middle back as that’s were pain is and was told sorry can’t do their and spent most of time on ankle which was strange as no problems their then we went for afternoon tea would definitely not recommend scones hard as stone and cakes well their is no words overall a beautiful place really helpful and friendly staff but for the price I excepted it to be better

Food was delicious but a bit cold when it arrived. Ambience and service were lovely!

Superb! Food was piping hot and a good amount. Great price! Would highly recommend

Lunch with Dad, he enjoys having something to look forward to since Mam died, and this was handy for us both. Lovely attentive service and good food and beer, we only didn’t have a pudding as he had his diabetes test the next day. We will return.

My wife and I came as part of a Spa day with the Garage Spa, the restaurant is lovely, a really nice place with friendly, attentive staff. The food was delicious, the steak burger was perfectly cooked and the chips were some of the tastiest I've had!

Sunday carvery, food was excellent. Service greatly improved since last visit. All that was needed was supervision by experienced staff in the past. Good value for money. Well done.

My daughter and I ate here as part of a spa day. The service was faultless and the food was delicious. We would be more than happy to dine here again in the future. Just one suggestion: a little background music in the restaurant would be nice.

Lovely food. Children love it here It was a very busy night but that didn't change the service or the quality. Thanks for a good night we will return

Booked a table in advance but upon arrival nobody was around to seat us, so we ended up just finding a table ourselves. After sitting for 15 minutes with no service, we went to the bar to order our drinks and ask for a menu, stating our table number. Again nobody came to take a food order so we had to go to the bar to order. Food was disappointing, and didn't make up for the poor service. Fish lacked any flavour and the batter was soggy, mushy peas we've VERY dry and chips were cold. Such a shame as we love the atmosphere here, and particularly how dog friendly it is. We've never had a poor experience in the past but may be reluctant to come back for food in future.

There were five of us having dinner and breakfast followed by lunch. All of our meals were really nice without exception- limited lunch menu but food was lovely. Breakfast was self served with hot and Cold buffet and all of the staff have been helpful.

Great tapas - really delicious. Highly recommend.

Excellent food. The staff were very helpful and pleasant.