County Durham Restaurant Guide

Pizza Express - Darlington

Pizza Express remains a hugely popular bedrock of casual eating. Its popularity is testimony to the fact that across the country, they have restaurants where you will always be guaranteed a good nosh, with children's tastes being well catered for.

• Address: 1 Skinnergate, Darlington, DL3 7NB (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Pizza & Pasta
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £15.00, Dinner: £21.00

Pizza Express - Durham

Pizza Express remains a hugely popular bedrock of casual eating. Its popularity is testimony to the fact that across the country, they have restaurants where you will always be guaranteed a good nosh, with children's tastes being well catered for.

• Address: 64 Sadler Street, Durham, DH1 3PG (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Pizza & Pasta
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £15.00, Dinner: £21.00

Portofino

This bistro and pizzeria is under the same ownership as Krimo's , it opened in 1997 and is the result of Krimo and his wife's great success with their first venture. It overlooks the historic quay and marina, and is a pleasant place with convivial surroundings.

• Address: The Historic Quay, Hartlepool, TS24 0XZ (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Mediterranean
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £15.00

Pump House Restaurant, The

The Pump House Restaurant is situated in a converted Victorian pumping station, in a small woodland glade behind Houghall Agricultural College and Houghall Farm just on the outskirts of Durham City Centre.

• Address: Farm Road, Houghall, Durham, DH1 3PJ (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Bistro, Steak
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £22.00, Dinner: £38.00

Restaurant at Beamish Park Hotel

A stylish establishment offering an interesting range of dishes across a broad spectrum. Plump breast of chicken on creamed cabbage with butter beans and lardons of pancetta may provide a winter warmer.

• Address: Beamish Burn Road, Marley Hill, Beamish, nr Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, NE16 5EG (Map)
• Cuisine(s): European, Mediterranean
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £37.00

Restaurant at Headlam Hall

Located in a most impressive Jacobean mansion, the dining facilities occupy the conservatory, a handsome panelled room and one attractive Victorian room done out in a deep and pleasant shade of green.

• Address: Headlam, nr Gainford, Darlington, DL2 3HA (Map)
• Cuisine(s): British, French
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £23.00, Dinner: £41.00

Restaurant at Jersey Farm Hotel

Most country hotels proudly draw attention to their mature gardens or sweeping woodlands, but at Jersey Farm it's the 12 acres of farmland populated by the customary farm animals, including Jersey and Highland cattle and the rather less customary Llamas who seem to have settled into their new surroundings with remarkable sang-froid.

• Address: Darlington Road, Barnard Castle, DL12 8TA (Map)
• Cuisine(s): English
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £28.00

Restaurant at Premier Inn - Durham City Centre

• Address: Freemans Place, Walkergate, Durham, DH1 1SQ (Map)
• Cuisine(s): English
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £25.00

Restaurant at The Dun Cow

Information is not currently available as to whether this excellent pub with food competes with the Working Men's Club (or whatever) for the Prime Minister's custom, but it certainly attracts plenty of other people.

• Address: 43 Front Street, Sedgefield, TS21 3AT (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Modern
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £30.00

Restaurant at The Rose & Crown

The charm of Romaldkirk is renowned, with the village stocks, pump and mellow stone cottages all combining to offer a very valid reason for visiting. However, an even better reason is the welcome that awaits you from Alison and Christopher Davy at their delightful pub alongside the village green and handy for the church.

• Address: Barnard Castle, Romaldkirk, nr Barnard Castle, DL12 9EB (Map)
• Cuisine(s): British
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £20.00, Dinner: £37.00