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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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Restaurant
Durham City
Walkergate is Durham's premier city centre leisure destination. Situated in the heart of Durham, it offers a selection of stylish bars and family restaurants around open terraces.
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.
Tea Room/Coffee Shop
Barnard Castle
Offering: A Collection Service
Clarendon's is a traditional Tearoom with a contemporary twist. Local produce is always on the menu and all cuisine is freshly prepared, home-made and delicious!
Tea Room/Coffee Shop
Bishop Auckland
The Bishop’s Kitchen sits at the heart of Auckland Castle, offering a warm welcome and a delicious range of tempting treats.
Tea Room/Coffee Shop
Toft Hill
If you’re looking for quality homemade food in Bishop Auckland, you must try The 68 Café.
Restaurant
Darlington
HAVELOCK'S
Havelocks at Blackwell Grange offers an extensive 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 produce where…
Tea Room/Coffee Shop
Durham
Ushaw is the perfect place to take a break and treat yourself, open daily 10am - 3:30pm
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
Butterknowle
Café Cheesedale is the home of Teesdale Cheesemakers and the café reflects this with its cheese-centric menu.
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.
Pub/Inn
Bishop Auckland
A small family owned public house with traditional home cooked food.
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
Barnard Castle
Offering: A Collection Service
The Witham Café Bar is at the heart of the award-winning modern atrium that bridges the two older buildings. Licensed day and evening, we serve locally sourced, seasonal lunches and suppers, full afternoon tea, home…
Café
Blackhall Colliery
Dunes is a brand new building overlooking Crimdon Beach.
Tea Room/Coffee Shop
Sedgefield
Our visitor centre offers excellent facilities including an interactive exhibition space, fully equipped education room, gift shop, cafe and public toilets. The Tower Cafe is open daily offering a wonderful selection of home made soups, sandwiches,…
Tea Room/Coffee Shop
Durham City
Taking our name from the ancient alleyways leading to our spectacular 16th century building, Vennels is a truly unique venue.
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.
Tea Room/Coffee Shop
Houghton Le Spring
Haswell Homer Hill Farm Shop, is a well- stocked family run business, which supplies quality food and a platform for artisanal producers from County Durham and beyond.
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…
Tea Room/Coffee Shop
Stanhope
A warm welcome awaits at our 75-seater, accessible for all, tearoom. Providing an extensive menu of homemade hot and cold meals, speciality teas and coffees, irresistible home baking and traditional Sunday lunches, served in a relaxing environment.
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