good food quality and service excellent room

The Black Bull was a pub at one time, now it is a restaurant with rooms, there is no free seating bar area to sit and have a drink unless you book a meal. We had a table in the bar area and were quite satisfied for our one night stay but two groups who were eating in the Bull were complaining to the bar staff that they had nowhere to site prior to or after the booking time. This was a Saturday and fully booked, I guess it would not be a problem at a quiet time. This is a very new complete refurbishment and very nice, just needs to decide if it wants to be a pub or a restaurant We did request a double room via Bookings but ended up with a twin, not sure where the error occurred with the hotel or bookings.com Only able to check in at 4 pm, a bit late by most other

The rooms were lovely and very well thought out with everything you could want or need. Decorated in a really tastefully and modern way but cosy and welcoming. The food was AMAZING! Truly fantastic.

The bed! Was like sleeping on a ship. Everytime one person moved the other did. Not great quality mattresses. 😕 the pillows were also lacking quality and were thin and had seen better days. B & B needs 2 things to be good. The bed, which was awful and breakfast, which was amazing. The hand soap bottle was broken and didn't pump and the toilet didn't flush properly.

An excellent stopping off place enroute to Scotland. Ample parking and warm welcome showing me to my room which was tastefully decorated with clear attention to detail (including charging points near bed and something to put your used tea bags in). I had my evening meal in the restaurant which was excellent. I sampled the crayfish salad and halibut which were both extremely tasty with friendly service. Breakfast was also tasty. All in all a most enjoyable stay and on my list to return to,

A little difficult to find your way out to car park prior to breakfast (e.g. when main doors not open)

Room, dinner and breakfast all fab. The price for B and B, with a great choice at breakfast, was really good value. The rooms are lovely and also warm and the open fire in the bar area, really welcoming. All staff that we encountered were lovely too. The evening meal options are fairly limited, but understandable in a rural location such as this as I’m sure in the winter months, gauging the number of customers must be very difficult. We had a very nice stay and would definitely return, if in the area again.

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Breakfast option was a good choice. Room was clean and well presented. Ground floor room had access directly the car park from our room so easy to access, yet wasn't available to every room. Bathroom Fan had isolation switch, so didn't have to be on all the time. Comfortable bed and two pillows for each person on the bed. Tea and Coffee available in the room, as well as biscuits and bottle of water. People friendly.

I found the bathroom basin taps a little hard to turn off and had left one running by mistake, maybe the tap washer needed changing? Otherwise it was fine. Comfortable area to relax, as the bar / restaurant area seemed busy.

We liked pretty much everything about the stay, breakfast was superb with lots of variety, dinner was of a high quality. We had a large twin room with quality furniture, comfortable beds, complimentary, tea, coffee and water in the room, a roomy bathroom with a walk in rainfall shower

There wasn't really anything that we didn't like, however if I could offer some improvement, the dinner menu was very "gamey" so for those who wanted a lighter meal there wasn't really an option for this, having said that the food was excellent, just lacked a bit of variety.

Dinner was good and value for money. Breakfast was also good, although there perhaps could have been more choice of items for the continental part of the breakfast such as cheese, different types of bread or pastries. All in all excellent value for money. Room was exceptionally clean and nicely decorated. Comfortable bed.

Easy chairs in the room would have been helpful to relax, although that would have made the space a little cramped. Curtains did not sufficiently eliminate light from outside.

The Inn is maintained to a high spec and is immaculate. Really nice room which also had an external door to car park enabling quick access for luggage. Lovely breakfast with some nice options. Staff were friendly. Its a nice place for a meal too, the quality of the food was superb.

Only thing we found a bit strange was we had to walk through restaurant to our rooms, which when carrying luggage you are walking past people eating their meals which is probably more off putting for them.

We think first impressions tell a lot and arriving after a long drive to the The Black Bull Inn and walking in could tell we had made a good choice. Absolutely beautiful decor and immaculate clean. A mixture of old and modern but executed perfectly. Shown to our room and further impressed. A good size room for two and everything was immaculately clean with a lovely bright bathroom and excellent shower ( hand and rain) and a wonderful big bed. Included iron and small board, kettle and choice of drinks and bottles of water . Must also mention the lovely choice of fluffy towels. Breakfast has everything you could want including a coffee machine that gives good choice and grinds the beans for each cup. A selection from kippers to a lovely selection of cooked food all delivered by lovely friendly staff. This is a great find and when north again will be our choice to stay. A great thing also it’s located close to so many attractions including Lindisfarn Island and Bamburgh Castle, and many more along this fabulous part of the country.

OK , don’t like to have to include this part as this maybe just a personal thing but asked what we didn’t like and that was price of drinks. To us £15 for two glasses of house wine ( one small red and one large white) is eye watering and so didn’t ask for a second round. Still I suppose it’s healthy not to drink too much! 🤭

Really clean and comfortable. Great food, great wine list.

Not a didn’t like just a weird uncomfortable one that when we grabbed menus for dinner (really early at like 5.30pm) we were told twice we could only sit at a table set for 2 people. Not a massive issue just felt unnecessarily firm when by time we’d finished there was still very few people at tables. And…. Two other couples were shown to tables that were laid for 3 or 4 people while we were sat there