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From afternoon tea to a tasty lunch-time snack, you'll find a variety of cosy cafés and quaint tearooms in Durham just waiting to tempt your tastebuds.
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Tea Room/Coffee Shop
Cowshill
The café offers a wonderful menu with a choice of home-made soups, sandwiches, scones, cakes and lots more. Ingredients are organic or locally sourced where possible.
Tea Room/Coffee Shop
Lanchester
Offering: A collection service.
Our café/restaurant is fast gaining a reputation for high quality, freshly prepared food, served with a smile in a homely setting.
Restaurant
Bowburn
Bowburn Hall Hotel was built in the early 1960s. Originally the hotel was a Country House for the first colliery agent at the local mine. Converted to a hotel during the 1960s by the current owners, the hotel now has 19 comfortable bedrooms.
Restaurant
Darlington
THE HAVELOCK RESTAURANT
The Havelock Restaurant offers an extensive a la carte menu together with an excellent and imaginative wine list. Our Head Chef, Mark Raw, and his team work with the best farmers, butchers and fishermen sourcing local…
Café
Lanchester
Join us at Serendipity Cafe for specialist coffees (including decaf and vegan options), teas, sweet and savory snacks.
We serve freshly prepared breakfasts, sandwiches, jacket potatoes and regular specials.
We are located on a main…
Restaurant
Darlington
Oswald’s restaurant is based in the main hotel. The dinner menu has been carefully crafted by our Head Chef to offer a more formal dining experience with dishes being made from locally sourced suppliers.
Tea Room/Coffee Shop
Horden
You can also visit the Vintage Tea Room for a Cream tea and enjoy a stroll in local welfare park where we are located.
Restaurant
Edmondsley
Here at Woodlands Bar Venue and kitchen we are just a hop skip and jump from County Durham's city centre. Nestled in the beautiful County's countryside which we call home, away from the hustle and bustle. Make your visit a real day out with our…
Café
Durham City
Intervals cafe offers the perfect place to eat and drink in style, with a wide selection of fresh salads, sandwiches and pasta as well as tasty snacks, cakes and pastries.
Tea Room/Coffee Shop
Lanchester
Step into the Greenhouse Restaurant for a warm welcome and delicious food. Whether a light snack or a more substantial meal is what you have in mind, you’ll find it in our mouth watering menu.”
Our afternoon tea is a firm favourite with no need…
Tea Room/Coffee Shop
Bishop Middleham, Sedgefield
Offering: A Collection Service
Open to the public, serving breakfast, coffee and cake and hot food all day plus fully licensed & available for private hire.
Tea Room/Coffee Shop
Durham City
At Paddy and Scott’s, we serve award-winning, artisan coffee in bright, bold, eclectic surroundings.
Restaurant
Durham City
The Radisson Blu Hotel, Durham invites guests to enjoy a very stylish and unique twist on the classic British Brasserie in our Collage Restaurant. Guests will be tempted with an innovative menu, all complemented by breath taking views of the River…
Café
Near Witton Gilbert, Durham
A coffee shop on a real working farm. Light and spacious, warm by the fire in the winter, delicious hot and cold food.
Café
Blackhall Colliery
Dunes is a brand new building overlooking Crimdon Beach.
Tea Room/Coffee Shop
Hamsterley Forest
The friendly tearoom offers a range of homemade cakes and light snacks including freshly prepared sandwiches, soup, jackets and pasties and ice cream kiosk.
Restaurant
Bishop Auckland
Offering: A Collection Service
Thomas Wright House serves food every day from 12 noon. Lunch, Afternoon Tea, Evening Meals including a la carte and Sunday Lunch. The restaurant is licensed with an outdoor eating area in the summer months.
Restaurant
Durham City
Find simple light lunches and a selection of homemade snacks in Durham Cathedral's cafe, The Undercroft. Set in a beautiful medieval space, don't miss their delicious homemade cakes and scones.
Tea Room/Coffee Shop
Chester-le-Street
Enjoy one of our delicious Afternoon Teas in our splendid surroundings. Served daily in our Library Bar and Knights Restaurant.
On busier occasions this may also be served in one of our grand state rooms and during the summer months, this can be…
Tea Room/Coffee Shop
Tanfield Village
Offering: A Collection Service
Relax in our rustic cafe and bistro and take some time to enjoy delicious home cooked food, freshly prepared daily using the very best locally sourced ingredients.
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