The Cellar Door

41 Saddler St, Durham
0191 383 1856

Recent Reviews

Bernie S

A great find for Sunday roast!Good selection of beers, wine and cocktails.Lovely decor and nice atmosphereStaff were friendly and professionalSunday roast was delicious. Hugh Yorkshire pudding, Good quality meats and veg!Found the profiteroles a little dry but the sauce was delish

Hannah Boynton

We love coming to Cellar Door on a Sunday to enjoy their Sunday Dinners. It’s such a treat, we enjoying visiting as a couple but also have invited family and friends who aren’t from the area to visit as the food and staff are brilliant. Gluten free options are available and the staff are knowledgeable in this area. As a Yorkshire lass, I can confidently say the Yorkshire puddings are amazing, bigger than your head but amazing! We have always booked our table in advance to avoid disappointment.Dietary restrictions: Gluten free options available

Amanda Burton

A lovely hidden gem with views over the city and river. Friendly attentive staff, gorgeous food and wine at reasonable prices.

crazy Baker

Food okay, service very slow and impersonal, very noisy.

Alan Stokes

Lovely home made bread to start, always a good sign. Cheese soufflé was wonderful.There's a lot of interesting flavour combinations here, dishes are slightly unexpected, but it's great to try new things done well.. Good presentation, excellent service. Unusual but pretty impressive wine list.Vegetarian options: A couple of veggie mains, one vegan, and a few starters. So not much choice, but very good.

Chey

Visited the Cellar door last year for Sunday lunch and we were really impressed so decided to book again for my sister's birthday on Saturday for lunch.The staff were all friendly and the restaurant was busy, we were asked if we wanted water for the table and drinks so we ordered a couple of coffees and then our food.The starters took around 40 mins to come out which would have been ok had we been offered more drinks in that time, we weren't and our glasses and coffee cups hadn't been removed from the table.Starters arrived and they were really tasty and everyone was happy.Then our mains came out not too long after the starters. My main was a vegan option from the A La Carte menu which was £20, when it arrived I was underwhelmed to say the least. It was a quarter of a head of broccoli with some sauce on it (the menu said it came with onion bhaji and raisins but it didn't?) It was delicious, I can't knock the flavours of the food, but I was left feeling so hungry after eating it, It needed something alongside it, some sort of grain or potato, onion bhaji perhaps? just anything! Everyone else's mains were nice. My partner ordered a burger which he got fries with (and it was cheaper than my floret of broccoli, how?)Anyway we were never asked if we wanted any more drinks, which we all did. We skipped dessert and paid up and then went next door to Tango and I had an absolutely delicious vegan burger and fries.I've never left a restaurant feeling hungry after a main course and certainly never had to buy another main course elsewhere.Very disappointed as we really had high hopes for this place and had recommended it to loads of people after the initial visit. I just think some improvements need to be made in order to justify the prices and to honour how good the flavours are. Front of house although incredibly friendly could benefit from more direction and training on the basics, they weren't incompetent they could just do with better direction and communication.

Paul M

Rwally lovely little restaurant. Excellent food and service, And good value for money too!

Maureen Ridley

Absolutely gorgeous food and brilliant staff no faults at all Yorkshire pudding was to die for even got the recipe thanks to the lovely Amy (think that was her name) would highly recommend this place to

Ben Sansen

Excellent food. Great service.

Lesley Smith

Jan-24 Visited for Sunday lunch with friends. Waiting staff appear a little under trained (new staff, unaware of what makes up the dishes, mistakes made on order dye to 2 similar dishes on menu), great choice on menu, food was really good. No gluten free pudding choices on Sunday lunch menu but did offer dessert from main menu, albeit just a "you can have this but we leave this out" rather than dishes that are truly thought. None of the above would stop us returning.

Neil Batey

Beautiful

Okghum Ramari

Had a really excellent feed here last night - everything was great, staff attentive and welcoming, really interesting menu and particularly exquisite desserts. Highly recommended. Will be returning.

Keith Pritchard

Great place to book and enjoy great food and a wide variety of drinks.

Simon Harding

Sunday lunch roast was perfect with wow factor Yorkshire pudding. Very tasty and attentive service.

MaximusFB

Really good food in a fantastic atmosphere, with very attentive staff. Great dinner!Dietary restrictions: Catered very well for dietary restrictions. Thank you.Wheelchair accessibility: No, steep staircase.

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