The décor does a lot to offset the downside of the limited space in the café — it makes it seem quite cosy — and I like the individuality of the place. The choice isn’t large but that’s just an observation not a complaint. We stopped in for a post-lunch dessert with our little one and ordered 2 sweet pancakes with ice-cream. There are no high-chairs available and while we could have had our pushchair out, we preferred not to intrude any more on the available space than we had to. We found the pancake taste and presentation were good but we didn’t feel that overall they justified the price of £5.85 each. Compared with a dessert in any other local restaurant, that would have to count as expensive. Like the sweet pancakes, the savoury pancakes were also all one price — £7-something — and we worked out that if we’d been in for lunch and had a savoury and sweet pancake each, plus coffee, there would not have been much(if any) change over from £30! I noted that they were very happy to accommodate requests from a party of mums and toddlers at the next table, to divide pancakes up and adjust toppings to cater for toddler-whimsy, which earns them extra points in my book. Overall, a lovely place to while away a lunch-time, but don’t go if you’re counting pennies.
Aqualu
Place rating: 4 Durham, United Kingdom
Great individual little restaurant oddly enough specialising in pancakes. There really should be more places like this, great food at a sensible price and well served. It is small inside, but this just adds to the appeal. All in all a great and different place to eat. Highly recommended.
Sky_ri
Place rating: 4 Durham, United Kingdom
A great little café, fun and quirky interior décor. Good food, although don’t go there and expect anything but pancakes! There are 4 savoury and 3 sweet flavours. The climb up the hill is definitely worth it. Perhaps not for the claustrophobic though, the café is definitely tiny.