Very enjoyable stay

We had a wonderful stay here. Rooms are lovely as is the rest of the place. It’s a very warm welcoming environment in the bar. We ended up talking to loads of locals and fellow hotel goers. The food was superb. Highly recommended and we will definitely return.

We have stayed several times now. Always spotless with great friendly staff

The welcome, the accommodation and the food were all outstanding. We’ll definitely return again … and again … and again

Room was spotless & comfortable. Food amazing & staff very friendly

lovely clean warm room with large bathroom. Well provisioned with water ,teas and coffees. Very attentive staff who made sure we were fed and watered. We have now used the Black bull twice for stay overs and cant fault it. Easy parking, great bar and tasty ,quality food.

room spotless, staff sxcellent. food good, what more could you want.

Staff excellent rooms good food and bar excellent

Lovely comfortable room. Super breakfast and evening meal.

Room good. Staff friendly.

Staff were great

Room was bright spotlessly clean, comfy bed and delicious breakfast . Fantastic evening meal too

Warm welcome, super room, excellent dinner and wonderful breakfast

Room was comfortably and clean. Well decorated and modern.

Modern clean room. Excellent food and drink options at reasonable prices

Excellent breakfast, very helpful staff

This is an excellent well-run hotel. Our room (and all the others, I guess) has been modernsed to a very high standard in recent years. Everything has been done well, with great attention to detail. The restaurant has a very good, reasonably priced menu. It is clearly very popular. Without exception, the staff were excellent. Congratulations to everyone involved in the redevelopment of the hotel!

Great pub with friendly staff Great food Lovely country pub

First visit here and very pleasantly surprised. We arrived about 7pm and immediately you could feel it had a very good ambience. It was busy with most people enjoying an eveing meal. Staff were pleasant and helpful. We hadn't booked a table for our evening meal as we weren't sure of our plans when booking the room. However, on arrival staff enquired if we wished to dine and a table was reserved for us at 8pm. The food here very good and generous. I had duck spring rolls which were fab and my husbands chicken supreme was equally great. Looking around I could see diners really enjoying the food. We stayed in the Bamburgh room which was very spacious, comfy bed and a really lovely en suite bathroom which was beautifully done out complete with rain shower. The room and bathroom were nice and warm. Bathroom towels were lovely, soft and scrumptious. The only downside was there was a sofa located at the bottom of the bed which was quite worn and probably should be replaced but other than that the room was lovely and tastefully decorated. As mentioned, very spacious. Breakfast was help yourself to tea, coffee soft drinks, 4 types of cereal, toast (toast it yourself in the toasting machine which was the best I've ever used!) plain yohurt, grapes and melon. Orders were taken for your cooked selection, full english etc. A really lovely place with great food. Will definitely return as a stop off on our journeys to Scotland as its a short drive from the A1.

The restaurant was excellent with a fabulous selection of dishes using local produce.