The Garden House Inn

The food was lovely. The service was great - efficient and warm. Can't ask for much more Excellent night - we are already planning our next evening there

Lovely pub, staff were welcoming and check in was straightforward. Room was a good size and clean. Ate at the restaurant, great atmosphere and excellent food.

Good food freshly cooked, friendly and helpful staff, nice atmosphere & surrounding. Lobster sandwich is an absolute favourite!

Friendly quick and efficient service. The meal was excellent and very good value and the room was warm and inviting. My companion and I thoroughly enjoyed the experience.

We had a lovely evening at the Garden House. We were with two guests from the Netherlands, and they were very impressed with the food and the ambience. The service was very good, and the staff moved us to a more spacious table when we requested it. Lovely food, and I would thoroughly recommend it.

Very easy to get to, really nice venue, excellent service, Amazing food and an excellent atmosphere. I would recommend anyone to try the Sunday Lunch.

This is a very nice pub with a good atmosphere. Delicious, well presented food served by pleasant staff. Will definitely dine there again in the future.

As usual, the Garden House Inn had a great atmosphere. The food was excellent with a wide variety on the menu. The service was very friendly.

Very nice on the whole. The Inn itself has a lot of character, although we were seated in the (newly built?) conservatory, but it was bright and cheerful on a Sunday afternoon. Food was very nice. Really it was traditional Sunday Lunch fair, but of a slightly more chef-y sort. A Few shortcuts were taken (veggies served under the John Dory were the same as serve as a side veg, and the sauce was quite similar to the sauce my wife had on the gnocchi). But the food was very tasty. The side veg and potato were very nicely done, which makes for a nice change. The lemon posset was lovely. Service was very nice, although maybe inexperienced and got a bit frazzled when things got busy. On the whole lovely, and would recommend and go again.

Excellent - friendly & efficient staff; interesting menu offering both traditional pub fare (fish and chips) and more unusual dishes (roast monkfish with nudjo). Everything we had was delicious and we'll definitely be returning

The bar area is the place to be rather than the conservatory as it has more character. Wide selection of food on the menu, lobster sandwich starter was excellent as was the tomato soup. Wine reasonably priced and 3 real ales available. The main course (hake) was very tasty but we had virtually finished the wine by the time it arrived. Whether not all the chefs were in with it being a Monday I don't know but other people around were waiting as well. So, on the whole very good, just the long wait a bit of a downside.

Excellent Sunday roast. Good portions as well as quality. Roast rump of beef was cooked perfectly. Wine list was very reasonable too. Great place to eat.

We chose to eat here as we were visiting Durham and had recently read a review a positive review of the restaurant by Jay Rayner. We arrived at 7.30 and finally got our main course at 9 pm. Food quality was o.k but the service delays were appalling, to say nothing of being served a different bottle of wine to the one we had asked for and on querying this being told the wine list had changed and so they had given us a different one, without bothering to check with us. They offered to change it to one of our choice but neither of the wines were very good. On paying the bill we were told they were a chef down, hence the delays.. It would have been better customer service to have explained that at the outset rather than keeping us drumming our fingers on the table. The staff were extremely pleasant and cannot be faulted in how they related to customers, A memorable evening but for the wrong reasons.

Good atmosphere and excellent food. Friendly service too. I'll be going back to this excellent gastropub in a city that does not have many choices at reasonable prices.

Superb food and great value - service very friendly too (if a little slow!)

Excellent food, well cooked with an interesting and unusual menu. It is a shame the service was so very slow. When looking around, many tables were full of people waiting to order or waiting a long time between courses. Go, but be prepared to wait!

Wonderful food in a very cosy pub atmosphere. The haggis scotch eggs we had as a starter were fantastic and the monkfish main course also great - will definitely return!

Very friendly and quick service with a great standard of food. Staff were great with the children and dog. We all thoroughly enjoyed our meal and will return.

food was good BUT very expensive as was a bottle of wine.we were actually staying here for 2 nights...room was clean n comfy,breakfast very good.

Lovely food as ever. Service a tad slow, but staff very helpful and friendly. Sadly, only two specials available. But we had a great night as ever!

Lovely Sunday dinner. Rare roast beef was really tender and the waitress was very attentive and polite. Great value for money and a good atmosphere.

The food was very enjoyable and they even made me a gluten free dumpling most restaurants just don't give you anything in its place .

Booked for Sunday lunch. Choice of 5 starters and 6 mains and 5 deserts. Food was good and plenty of it. Service could have been slightly better but wouldn't deter us from coming here again.

We booked the table for 6pm. The restaurant was pretty quiet but was really starting to fill up as we were leaving. Atmosphere was lovely, quirky decor. The food was sooo good!! I had risotto and my partner had chicken pasty. Will definitely go back!