The Waiting Room

The Waiting Room Multi award-winning vegetarian restaurant. Est 1985. Beautiful, creative all-natural rustic food.
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The Waiting Room Vegetarian Restaurant serves great food with rustic simplicity, and with loving generosity. We have created hundreds of recipes over 30 years, whilst changing our menu with each season. The Waiting Room puts on live music every Sunday, hosting brilliant original artists and performers. Best restaurant in The UK 2008 - The Vegetarian Society
We have featured in the Observer Food Aw

ards at least 5 times, (Top 40 of all UK restaurants, Best vegetarian restaurant in the North East etc.) We were listed 4th in the Times list of best places to eat vegetarian food in 2020. Certificate of Excellence - Highly Commended - International Slow Food Movement
"A great little restaurant selling wonderful food" BBC Good Food
and feature regularly in national lists of commended and recommended restaurants.

We’ve got a super hot, tight show this coming Sunday. An hour of pure Teesside comedy theatre, by super-hot podium/ohp g...
22/06/2026

We’ve got a super hot, tight show this coming Sunday. An hour of pure Teesside comedy theatre, by super-hot podium/ohp guy Scott Turnbull. Doors 7 prompt. Show 7.30 prompt. Tis an hour of action-packed funniness. Book one of the few remaining tickets @ www.thewaitingroom.uk/events Optionsl: Book a table to eat at 5.30pm, 6pm or 8.30pm by emailing [email protected] - Bar, restaurant and vegetarian cabaret lounge. We’re thrilled to put in this hit show by one of Teesside’s finest, as part of our long running Waiting for Sunday night of real good stuff. See more upon the waiting room website, join the waiting room mailing list to be amongst the first to know.

Free music at the waiting room tonight. “A bit of blues for the dads” with Claude Bourbon and James Gray - from 7 food a...
21/06/2026

Free music at the waiting room tonight. “A bit of blues for the dads” with Claude Bourbon and James Gray - from 7 food available from 5.30pm. See future events at www.thewaitingroom.uk/events

A BIT OF BLUES FOR THE DAD'S Free Live Music This Sunday WE'VE GOT THE BLUES THIS SOLSTICE FATHER'S DAY  FREE TICKETS @ ...
19/06/2026

A BIT OF BLUES FOR THE DAD'S
Free Live Music This Sunday

WE'VE GOT THE BLUES THIS SOLSTICE FATHER'S DAY

FREE TICKETS @ www.thewaitingroom.uk/events

Claude Bourbon supported by James Gray, with FREE TICKETS to the gig for anybody on our mailing list (or anyone signing up to it on the night).

We're looking busy for Father's Day Lunch, with some tables still available from 12-3pm (book here: https://www.thewaitingroom.uk/reservations

See our Sunday Lunch menu below).

Evening from 5.30pm with our usual nice shorter menu written to the blackboard, and free live music. Eat before, or during the show.

Claude Bourbon has been touring the world with his music for these last 25 years, as a solo musician. His repertoire is composed of originals and others in a Spanish blues style. Claude has played countless venues and share the stage with many musicians, like Calvin Russell, Charlie Morgan (Elton John, Gary Moore), Jan Akkerman (Focus), Steve Grossman (Miles Davis), Herbie Armstrong (Van Morisson), Jose Barrense Dias and many more.

"A breathtaking acoustic fusion of blues, jazz, folk, classical and Spanish guitar from a stunning guitar virtuoso..."Altadena News, USA"

Also coming soon:

Surreally Good by Scott Turnbull Sunday June 28th. Doors 7, Showtime 7.30-8.30pm This will be a really good show Sir, by Stockton's finest surrealist comedy writer/actors - doing avant garde stuff on defunct office apparatus.

See www.thewaitingroom.uk/events for Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage tickets, and many others, including - famously - Martin Stephenson & The Daintees, Chris Helme (Sea Horses) Mark Morris (Bluetones) David Thomas Broughton (a personal 'favourite Top 5') and more brilliant shows, with one or two more announcements and a full Autumn programme lineup release coming soon.
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12/06/2026
Just two more weekends of our current Spring Menu, before here comes the Summer. Come dine with us - and don't forget to...
12/06/2026

Just two more weekends of our current Spring Menu, before here comes the Summer. Come dine with us - and don't forget to sign up for your 40th anniversary souvenir sticker card. See you tonight.

New late ticket release for our special sold out  show tomorrow night. 12 Standing tickets +1 Free Ticket!* (for a camer...
05/06/2026

New late ticket release for our special sold out show tomorrow night. 12 Standing tickets +1 Free Ticket!* (for a camera person)
We’re thrilled to welcome back Duke Special tomorrow night with his 20th anniversary tour of Songs From The Deep Forest together with iconic virtuoso percussionist Chip Bailey! We’ve just released 12 new tickets ((£25 a pop - so you know it’s good!)- available at www.thewaitingroom.uk/events by creating some standing room at the back/with a stage at the front. Plus we have 1 FREE TICKET and some good, for anyone who could do a bit of filming of the gig for us (camera provided, and according to the wishes of our performing artists on the night) - just for fun. OK please reply to this message if interested in that won’t you now.

Address

9 Station Road
Eaglescliffe
TS160BU

Opening Hours

Tuesday 12pm - 2:30pm
5pm - 11pm
Wednesday 12pm - 2:30pm
5pm - 11pm
Thursday 12pm - 2:30pm
5pm - 11:45pm
Friday 12pm - 2:30pm
5pm - 11:45pm
Saturday 12pm - 9pm
Sunday 12pm - 3pm
5pm - 10:30pm

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