Station Five Deli - Stockton-on-Tees

Warm enough to sit outside. My friend had a lovely big bowl of porridge and I had a selection of toast with butter and marmalade. Staff were friendly and helpful. Closed on a Monday. Bathroom facilities, spotless.

Lovely little spot for breakfast. We had a full English and poached eggs with smoked salmon on toast. We both thoroughly enjoyed our meals. Super friendly staff would definitely recommend! Lovely coffee too!

Have been before and it was good but they must have been having a really bad day today. Couple beside us got up and left after waiting an hour for a forgotten order and table behind us were missing a meal too. Our order was wrong but by this point I felt uncomfortable and jyst wanted to leave. Something need to improve or people won't come back which is a massive shame

We booked a table for breakfast at 10am as it was recommended we book because of how busy it gets. We arrived at 9:50am and our table was ready and was told there my be a little wait for food but wasn’t told how long. After being sat for about 15 minutes we have our drink order taken. Then after about 30 minutes of being here we had our food order taken. There are 5 tables in the deli and we were 1 of only 4 that were occupied. About 15 minutes after our order was taken the waitress came to us to confirm our order and it’s a good job she did as she what asked if we’re were having was completely not what was in our ticket. After being in the deli for 1 hour we asked the waitress how long our food would be and was told not to much longer. At 11am my wife went to the counter to see how long the food would be and was told about 20 minutes this would have meant we had have waited an hour and a half for 2 breakfasts. What also added to this is the waitress had to ask what table we were sitting on which really wasn’t had as only 4 tables were occupied. We also pointed out that a man and his son had came in about 20 mins after us ordered, got his food and had finished. We just paid for our drinks and left. We will not return here and will now look for an alternative venue for our family breakfast.

Sadly, our visit for brunch today was a let down for both food and service. 1pm visit, nothing wrote on specials board, when we asked, we were told they were being wrote out, staff verbally said what was on offer. We had to ask for the table menus. Ordered 1 tea, 1 coffee, staff forgot my tea. Ordered 2 x Fish finger butty with truffle fries, we were served cold(not even warm) fries, the bread was still frozen. Staff tried to say the bread was lightly toasted, we had to ask her to touch it as it was clearly still frozen! Staff explained the cold chips were cooked and left out as the person cooking the meals had other food to cook at the same time. There were 3 others in the restaurant only. My pal had her meal re-heated. I had a replacement meal of a sausage and egg butty, the egg was grossly undercooked. When I asked the staff member about the very basic/limited menu, she explained the chef had recently left. It appeared the usual waitresses had also. My previously reviews have been 5 stars, sadly it’s 1 star today. Failure on all levels.