The best restaurants in County Durham North East

A similar theme to a 1950s American Diner in the furniture Citrone’s has. A place where you can sit with your friends and family and bond over the week you’ve had over coffee and some good food. The place is full of life, you can feel it and see it when you walk in the door. The service is brilliant, everyone is welcoming and warm when you approach the counter. The food is the best I’ve had in a very long time and it’s a big reason I come back at least 3 times a month. All their food is cook to order and it doesn’t take long to cook either, it’s fresh and hot always when you pick it up. Which makes it one of the best places in Chester-Le-Street just for that reason alone; however the other reasons such as the ones mentioned above make it THE best place in area. Great food, great atmosphere and great overall experience. If you were interested in going here, do it. You won’t regret it.

Firstly may I say my father ran a very successful fish and chip shop in York for all his life. So when I choose to use a fish and chips shop I’ve shopped around before hand, and when I started using Riley’s the fish and chips were the best around, now I’m a believer in all feedback is good feedback as it gives the owner of the business and idea of the customers view of there product. I visited the shop about two months ago and sadly my meal was cold and chips had been held too long in the warming tray, I thought nothing of it at the time, as it was late Saturday afternoon and the shop had been open all day. Today I’ve been I was stood outside the shop waiting for it to open, so I was first in, and sadly the chips were quite obviously ones that had either been warmed up from Dinner were held in water too long, really hard on the outside of the chips and not warm in the middle, my father always peeled and cut fresh chips for the next shift before it opened, I ate my fish and my dogs enjoyed my chips. Sorry but twice is not good enough for me.

We loved the bar and the service but found that the food was expensive and disappointing. I paid £16.95 for bratwurst and chips plus £2.95 for a tiny jug of awful runny curry sauce. My wife's game terrine was bland and not 5 star gastro pub presented. Gluten free bread was served which is great but it wasn't toasted. The server refunded this item thank you.

Immaculate service. Delicious food. Brilliant Atmosphere. Perfect place for an enjoyable dinner.

Great pub with lovely beer garden. Very helpful staff. Lovely Starprommen.

Cold sunday dinner , gravy like water ,

'Speak easy' with a secret door code! We had to try it. Pretty empty on a Friday night at 9pm so easily got a seat. Girls enjoyed a £35 bottle of prosecco and lads had pints/wine. Plenty of cocktails available and a good choice of alcohol free drinks. Nice not to have to go to bar as waiter service

Cracking head chef and a Beautiful SCRAN 😁

This has been taken over its not as good as before

Most of the foods we had wanted had sold out due to Christmas parties, but we ordered tacos and some fries and they tasted really good. Atmosphere was brilliant and so chilled out and sat in airplane seats was really fun and different, we had a group of 4, there were other seating arrangements available for larger groups. We also had a drink here and it was very reasonably priced. Will definitely be back

We go on a Saturday for a coffee lovely place

Amazing food, Shildon Special is my go to would recommend. And the staff there are lovely.

Lovely food . First time I've been there and definitely will be going back.

Severe food poisoning after having Char Siu Pork last night.... DCC Environment health department informed

Brilliant choice of beers and spirits! Friendly landlord who made us feel very welcome. The homemade pizza was excellent, a lovely village pub with the a beautiful beer garden