Reviews in Houghton-le-Spring

Absolutely fantastic meal! Everything was incredible. The service was 10/10. The food was 20/10!! Huge portions and very well priced. We only waited around 15 mins from ordering to getting our food and it was fresh, hot and very tasty. Will definitely be back. 4 people, 8 alcoholic drinks and 4 meals for less than £90!

Fantastic as always. Service is brilliant and the food is always exceptional. The hardest thing is deciding what to have because it’s all so good.

Amazing food and lovely staff , portions was huge definitely recommended and will be back.

Sunday lunch for the family on 4th August. Lovely food. Excellent portion sizes and great service. Looking forward to the next visit.

First visit on Saturday on the 27th of July. Lovely food I had lobster ravioli which was amazing and my husband had burger which he enjoyed. So much on menu we want to try. Staff were really friendly. A little wait for food but staff informed us of this as soon as we arrived. Will definitely be visiting again soon.

My husband and I had a lovely meal at the Beehive on Saturday 3rd August 2024. We shared two starters, the duck dumplings and pork belly pork bites. Delicious and plenty to share. I then had the steak and prawn kebabs (there were three so couldn’t manage to eat them all) but managed to eat all the prawns!! This onset came with so many chips!! Definitely didn’t manage to eat all of them. Hubby had chicken with haggis wrapped in bacon with mashed potato in a peppercorn sauce off the specials menu. I know that he liked it because there wasn’t much left! Desserts followed with banana cheesecake and sticky toffee sundae. So lovely to have warm sticky toffee pudding warm with cream and ice cream!! Delicious food from start to finish. Excellent food and will be back for the next date night. Waitresses were all really nice and couldn’t do enough for us.

My husband and I visited The Beehive on Monday 29th July. We had booked a table using their booking online which was really easy to use. My husband ordered the Geordie Delight Parmo which was immense and looked amazing. I ordered the Salt and Pepper chicken flatbread which was also immense and looked and tasted amazing. I could not finish it all and took half home in a container supplied by the lovely Lynne who looked after us. I cannot recommend the food high enough and there’s so much on the menu to choose from. Bonus being a warm evening we had a drink and sat in the beer garden before we ate.

Lovely local feel pub with a warm and welcoming restaurant. Sunday lunch freshly made, with top quality meat and trimmings. The Yorkshires are class and the service is 5star. I use to go to The Beehive when I was a kid, 30+ years ago. Great to see Jimmy and his Daughter keeping the place alive and thriving. My Grandad would’ve loved to see the place now and enjoy a lunch with a pint. Get booked in but book at least a week in advance as it certainly is a hot spot. Kids pizza was lush and the chips, both my kids said “best chips we’ve ever had”

Generous portion of food that was well presented and tasted really nice. Got the steak hanging kebab off the special menu, could have been elevated with a sauce of some kind, but it was tasty.

Outstanding food and service for the second time we've visited. The food is of exceptional quality and the menu has clearly been well thought out with fantastic combinations. Our server (a young man) was fantastic throughout our meal and was a credit to the venue! We will definitely be back.

Outstanding food and service for the second time we've visited. The food is of exceptional quality and the menu has clearly been well thought out with fantastic combinations. Our server (a young man) was fantastic throughout our meal and was a credit to the venue! We will definitely be back.

Absolutely lovely food and amazing service will definitely be back!

5 star!

Went yesterday with friend and daughters, My ravioli was okay a bit sickly but think that was just me but prawns and ravioli was nice. Daughters steak was nice but the chips were way overcooked and she left them she got the extra portion of prawns with her steak and they were mushy so she left them also. Which would suggest age or storage from what I've read. This was an over £25 meal it should have been perfect!! My friends daughter had chicken nuggets chips and beans and the beans were sour, they were removed from the bill. My friend got the beef bap and chips and her bap and the veg were fine but again chips were overcooked and she couldn't eat them as too hard. The food is normally lovely here and maybe it was just the food choices we made, Staff are always lovely and friendly and cant ever fault them. The young lad is very friendly and likes a laugh with the customers. Unfortunately the food yesterday just didn't cut it.

Food was amazing. We went on a Sunday, I had the shredded beef roasties and couldn't finish it as the portion was so generous. My partner had the trio of meats dinner. 2 dinners and 2 drinks for £35 so very reasonably priced. Food was served quickly and the staff where very attentive. The only slight niggle was it was very warm in the dinning area and no windows where open.

The food here is amazing. We hit a bit of an issue when we noticed other tables were coming in after us and being served their food and we were still waiting. Having waited 45 mins we asked our waiter what was happening to be told the kitchen was busy with big orders and ours was still going to be 30 minutes. This was a bit off considering the pub was not busy and no big tables in. After waiting another 15 mins, so an hour now to serve 5 people main courses, I asked at the bar and they told me the waiter forgot to hand in our order so it had been forgotten. I appreciate these things happened but it’s not great lying to customers. I did ask if we could have a round of drinks to keep us happy while waiting, which they did provide on the house and applied a 10% reduction to our bill for having to wait 1hr 15 mins for our food. Like I say the food is amazing and this was just a hiccup with the wait, and not their usual standard. We would still return despite that issue.