The Rising Sun — Restaurant in Gateshead

Recently refurbished and now looks much nicer than it ever has done. Sunday lunch is ok but nothing to rave about and here's a few negatives. The Yorkshire puddings are bought in and are cheap airiated in a factory type ( light and crispy texture but no actual filling to them, sort of dissolve in your mouth). We got 3 very thin slices of beef but most disappointing was the veg. Wether there's 4 of you or 2 you get the same size dish . For four people you get one piece of broccoli each, one piece of cauliflower , carrots ( not enough) a small dish of mashed potatoe , and strangely you get a small dish of mushy peas instead of garden peas. Although each plate does have a couple of roasties on as well. On the plus side you do get extra gravy without even asking. The staff are good, they've become more attentive and ask if you'd like more drinks etc. The food was served up quite quickly as are puddings. It's a shame the yorkshires aren't home made, and maybe should ask if you'd like any more veg as all four of us would have said"...

The appearance of the bar was very nice but staff were not. It took 4 times to order food as waitress did not know meals were out of stock. While waiting for the missing meals to be sorted the remainder obviously Sat on gantry as the blue steak could have chocked a donkey. At no point were we told of the wait for food. This would have prevented the anticipation of when food would eventually turn up (1 hour 20mins) not an apology for the delay or missing food. Won't...

I used to live right opposite this pub and restaurant so it was certainly convenient! However, it was often really cold in there. Furniture was quite lived-in but maybe that has improved now. Food was always decent. Drinks were often unavailable. It seemed like the heating and range of alcohol was never on at the same time. Staff friendly but high turnover. Not much atmosphere but there are other places close by, perhaps taking...