Lanercost Tea Rooms — Restaurant in England

Our friend had journeyed up from London for a week's break staying with us in Teesdale Co. Durham. Anyway we decided to go and do some exploring in Cumbria (where l was born and bred) to check out The Anglo Saxon Cross in Bewcastle church yard. Lanercost was on route so we decided to make it our first stop for a coffee. We walked in and were immediately made to feel welcome by the lovely friendly staff. Our original intention was to get a coffee but looking at the menu we all decided to get breakfast. Both my wife and our friend opted for the Eggs Benedict whilst I decided to go for the Bigger Full English breakfast to keep me going all day. The Eggs Benedict's were according to the Girls absolutely delicious as was my breakfast. I asked for my toast not to be cut and we had a little laugh with the staff who said l know what your going to do your going to construct toasted sandwiches aren't you, which is what l always do when having a Full English. The meal consisted of 3 slices of bacon, a Cumberland sausage round, 2 eggs, a full fried tomato cut in half (not tinned) mushrooms, beans, some fried potato slices and 2 slices of toast. It was absolutely delicious and l couldn't believe how much it cost £10.50 for all that! Wow excellent value for money for everything we had. We will definitely be making Lanercost Tea Rooms a regular go to destination when we fancy...

It is a quaint little room that can get very busy and very full. When we arrived there was no tables for our sized group so we waited a few minutes. They were quick in getting our table ready as soon as people left. However ordering was a bit of a disaster. 1. after queuing for quite some time to order, we were told that our choices ( fish & chips and quiche) were not available. After another look at the Menu and having to queue up again for quite some time, there were more things we couldn’t order ( beef burger f.ex). They could have saved us a lot of time by telling us when we were seated or latest when we queued the first time, what was and what was not available from the menu. once we ordered and paid we had to wait for about 45-60 minutes until we got our orders. We had to ask them to bring it out. It seemed like they had forgotten us. Once the food arrived they were apologetic but didn’t offer us anything for our inconvenience. The food was ok to good. Korean chicken burger and the pulled pork burger were nice. The Ham and eggs were a bit dry. Cake and tea came quickly, were nice but...

After waiting over an hour for our food - one part of our 5 person order arrived. 5 mins after that 2 more parts arrived but the 2 children were still waiting for their meals. When we asked the waitress about this she replied well it’s cooked fresh and I am not the chef!!!!! Eventually a full 1hr and 25 mins after we first sat down we had all the food. To be honest I wish we had left- the cheese toastie was disgusting ( cheap and nasty cheese) the “homemade “ quiche was definitely not homemade. The children’s chicken goujons were more greasy batter than chicken. The children’s sausage had a strange taste and the halloumi tasted like it had been boiled. Overall we were extremely disappointed. Eventually we did have a member of staff come over and apologise and ask what we would like her to do - By this point the children where fed up and so where we so we are the...