The Top House - County Durham

Breakfast was hot fresh and lovely deffo worth the price. Katie makes the best . Love how they do tin tomatoes n lots of buttery toast. See you next wk.

In the area for an event and this was the closest pub to it.. To be fair the pints were a really good quality, however our experience was the same as some of the other reviewers... everyone stares at you when you walk in, majorly uncomfortable. Had I gone to the toilet before having a drink I would have left.. no locks on any of the doors, toilet seats hanging off and it honestly smelt like someone had died in there.. wiped my feet on the way out!! The bar also smelt like toilet...

Every pub in Stanley is aimed at the afternoon drunk.. The 'clientele ' swear, talk loudly and stare at everyone who walks in. The food is overpriced for a tinned taste meal and is poorly presented. There were children climbing the chairs and one even came out with the 'F 'word. The only good thing is that the 'waitress ' Toni is very pleasant, polite and extremely helpful.

I had the fish done in beer batter with homemade chips it was the best fish ive tasted lovely staff i will be going back excellent

The food was just disgraceful, greasier than anything I have ever seen and it took over an hour for our meal to be cooked. And in return, we received frozen clumps of what we thought could have been meat, greasy chips (there was that much grease that you could fill your glass with it). The toilets looked like they haven't been cleaned in 5 years. the kitchen absolutely disgusting. If we had seen the toilets before ordering we would have left straight away.