The Dun Cow, Bournmoor, County Durham

Had the festive menu. Garlic Mushrooms. Turkey Dinner and Christmas Pud. Food lovely staff very friendly. Def recommend

A great date night food excellent barmaid v friendly music just right couldn't fault anythingAlso black pudding in mash amazing

Excellent foods and very friendly staff. Good ambiance

Really friendly atmosphere, called in for a couple of drinks and ask the owner if we could stop over night in the camper, they were really welcoming and friendly

Busy quiz night, attentive, friendly staff. Good range of well cooked food nicely served in friendly atmosphere.

An old building, but nicely set out and cosy inside. 2 adults and 2 children, stayed overnight in a motorhome, before visiting Beamish, which is only 15 minute drive away. Meals took a while to be delivered to our table, but were good. Staff were friendly. Wouldn't think twice about visiting again

Some of the items listed on the starter menu don't come with all the ingredients described. Also, had to go and find someone to ask for a spoon for the soup they'd just delivered to the table. Food service was also very slow. I didn't helps that it was my wife's birthday meal. That said, they did recognise their mistakes by removing a round of drinks from the bill and a nice ice cream surprise for my wife.

A down to earth pub, with good food and good service. Nothing fancy but just what we were looking for. Big garden if you have kids.

The worst Sunday dinner I’ve ever had in my life, genuinely.As a side note someone else that was in today has also left a review so we obviously were not the only ones that had a bad experience.We had beef (nothing else available) and when it came it was absolutely swimming in the ‘gravy’ which had oil sitting on top of it, and a pile of mash and mashed turnip which just looked like a pile of slop with lumps in (and also a lump of something black!?)Bizarrely there were herbs and pepper covering the whole plate round the outside of the gravy which made everything taste awful.The veg on the side was also swimming in something oily no idea what, the broccoli looked grey, I dared to try it and had to spit it out it was that disgusting, didn’t dare try the cabbage which looked like translucent mush.The ‘cauliflower cheese’….I’m so baffled what this actually was, it looked more like cauliflower wallpaper paste and tasted like it too, could not eat it at all.The meat was awful….chewy and hard. Two tiny measly roast potatoes. The Yorkshire pudding was ok but that’s literally the only positive.We were waiting quite a while and the pub was very run down inside too, looked shoddy and dirty. We complained and they didn’t charge for one meal but it really should have been both.Really bad, 0/10 do not recommend!!!!

Genuinely the most disgusting Sunday dinner I’ve ever had, I’d say ate but I only managed three fork fulls.The pub looks beautiful from outside, proof that looks can be deceiving.We rang up to see if they did Sunday lunch, yes they said. Come down, as long as it’s before Quarter to four. We turned up at quarter past three.We were asked if we wanted to sit in the bar or the restaurant area / conservatory. We chose the latter.We seemed to get forgotten about and had to go and ask if we could order. When my partner attempted to order food we were then told only beef left, not just for Sunday lunch. For the whole menu. No children’s meals for my 18 month old. Just beef for everyone. Why could this have not been explained when we rang or when the menus were given ? Bit of a ‘Here’s what you could’ve had’. Pointless giving us a menu if you only have beef. I doubt this to be true to be honest, I think the chef couldn’t be bothered to ‘cook’ (word used lightly) anything else.Whilst waiting I went to the toilet, thankfully didn’t need to change my baby as the baby change mat is ripped and filthy.We had to ask for the lights to be put on as we were sat in the dark. No music etc, no atmosphere what so ever.Food arrived, swimming in a watery strange coloured I presume what’s meant to be Gravy. A plate which I can only describe as a slither of glass carrying our veg rations. What looked like one carrot chopped, 2 small pieces of broccoli, some green beans and white cabbage (about a spoonful). Oh and then a small little pan containing Cauliflower cheese although the cheese looked and had the consistency of half dried PVA glue. The veg was not enough for 2 adults and a child.The beef was so tough, it was awful. The whole dinner was Luke warm at best. The mashed potato was absolutely full of lumps. I got one very small roast potato. The whole dinner was seasoned with Oregano, literally every mouthful contained it.It was all just disgusting.I would never ever return here and would not recommend it to anyone.No one appeared to be in charge or running the place. The poor young girls are just left to crack on and to be honest they don’t have much in the way of customer service skills but also no one to look up to or learn from from what we witnessed. Fake it till you make it I guess.