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.

High Art. Just bank from the printers - the excellent Our Summer menu and some posters for a few of our stand out Waiti...
08/07/2026

High Art. Just bank from the printers - the excellent Our Summer menu and some posters for a few of our stand out Waiting for Sunday shows this autumn. Look at them then come and touch them - feel the quality. Nice colours too. - good for 40 years

Oh my, what a delicious supper A big bowl of fragrant golden turmeric coconut cream broth Laksa. It’s exquisitely spiced...
07/07/2026

Oh my, what a delicious supper A big bowl of fragrant golden turmeric coconut cream broth Laksa. It’s exquisitely spiced and packed full of tamari-roast vegetable goodness. Then ribbon rice noodles, then it has fresh slaw, crunchy spicy-roast peanuts and garnished with sambas , lime and coriander

Three very cool art music shows heading to The Waiting Room this autumn. Get tickets quickly and set your life up for a ...
05/07/2026

Three very cool art music shows heading to The Waiting Room this autumn. Get tickets quickly and set your life up for a positive turn! They’re at www.thewaitingroom.uk/events with a lot more besides

Sunday Lunch featuring a Moroccan Shepherd’s Pie and a super Celeriac & Goats Cheese Schnitzel - and Jeffrey Lewis on vo...
05/07/2026

Sunday Lunch featuring a Moroccan Shepherd’s Pie and a super Celeriac & Goats Cheese Schnitzel - and Jeffrey Lewis on vocals (the tune you hear). Catch Jeffrey Lewis and The Voltage at TWR on Weds Sept 9th. See our full Sunday Lunch menu at www.thewaitingroom.uk Salad’s, light lunches, and big Sunday dinners all available.

We’re making new flatter flat breads with our summer menu - stone-baked in the wood-fired pizza oven next door. Still wi...
04/07/2026

We’re making new flatter flat breads with our summer menu - stone-baked in the wood-fired pizza oven next door. Still with a sexy hint of turmeric, and perfect with our smoky aubergine Zaalouk, and dips, oils, salads and curry plates.

Zing… Roast zing for our summer tagine - see the assembled dish right here, on this continuous scroll, soon
03/07/2026

Zing… Roast zing for our summer tagine - see the assembled dish right here, on this continuous scroll, soon

Putting the menu in Summer Menu, and the aubergine, olives, lettuce, sweet potatoes, put lentils, halloumi, pineapple, g...
02/07/2026

Putting the menu in Summer Menu, and the aubergine, olives, lettuce, sweet potatoes, put lentils, halloumi, pineapple, green chilli, spinach, feta, sun blushed tomatoes pea and mint, cauliflower, artichoke, jazz, mushroom, sausage and spice, cashew, goats cheese, sorrel, tequila, helles, coconut milk, coriander, cardamom cake, lemon curd, lime basque cheesecake, sweet music, happy smiles, peppers, capers, Thermidor sauce and that’s just the half of it oh yeah. come and see us at www.thewaitingroom.uk and Station Road Eaglescliffe!

Wowsers… try this beautiful Basque Halloumi Cheesecake - with hot hot hot Verdita relish - it’s a real eye opener and ta...
30/06/2026

Wowsers… try this beautiful Basque Halloumi Cheesecake - with hot hot hot Verdita relish - it’s a real eye opener and taste bud waker. Yummy

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.

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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