The Darwin Room in Stockton-on-Tees

Fantastic Italian restaurant, just like I remember from years ago. Great food at proper prices.Family friendly with a great atmosphere. Everything run like clockwork as the boss had his eye on the whole operation and it really made a difference. Highly recommended 🙂

I had a lovely meal during happy hour. The place had a roaring fire and was packed with families, friends and couples all having a pleasant meal downstairs while an event went on upstairs. There were good portion sizes of lovely fresh cooked food with efficient friendly service. I heard it has won the Parmo competition again. Go visit it to see for yourself how good it is.

Great evening, well looked after by the friendly staff, obviously a delicious parmo too !

I sometimes order to collect my food. Tonight when i ordered, the girl who I spoke to on the phone was quite rude, unhelpful and I felt rushed on the phone. (Sunday 23rd Jan) When I came to collect my food, a member of staff acknowledged and greeted me straight away. Whilst I was waiting for my food being brought out, I couldn't help but notice some of the staff members faces whilst serving other guests. They looked like they didn't want to be there, could hardly crack a smile and looked quite miserable. It looks like they could do with some customer service training (for some of them) Otherwise food is/was absolutely spot on!

So disappointed! I don't have a single good thing to say about this place. So over crowded, we could barely sit down without bumping into the people on the table behind us. The tables and chairs were constantly being moved around during our visit, lifting chairs over our heads we were continuously being bumped into as there was just no space. The staff seemed as though they didn't want to be there, it was a nightmare to get their attention to orders drinks, food and even to pay! The garlic bread was disgusting, tasted like batter from the fish shop. The pizzas were very disappointing. 3 of us ordered parmos (award winning apparently) these were clearly just reheated and not well because all 3 came out cold. Everything was covered in grease, not just the food but the bottoms of the plates and the sauce dishes to. It was just an all round awful experience.

Excellent as always. Great service and atmosphere. I had a hot shot Parmo (of course!) Was really good.Been coming for years and still love it!

Amazing service beautiful food staff very helpful when didn't know what dessert to pick

Borge's what could I say? It is normally always amazing food. There was a party of 15 of us and we were seated upstairs. Greeted perfectly and drinks ordered and then we ordered starters and mains. Starters were spot on. Amazing tastes. Unfortunately one of the little girls in our party was sick and the staff had little consideration for the little girl in question. They just wanted to put the food down on the table or on the bar near the table and let it go cold. There was no 'we will hold it and reheat it for you' they did help clean up the mess. After that part of our party had left so the rest of us got the mains everyone's mains. Perfect clean plates. A few of us had desserts and all were great, unfortunately I didn't get what I ordered. I had ordered a sticky toffee sponge pudding and what they actually tried to give me was a golden syrup sponge cake not thinking I would know the difference. But upon bringing our issues up with the manger, he was very apologetic and did also give us a bottle of wine to make up for it. To summarize I would still recommend borge the food was great and always good value for money with the portion sizes. It was clean and tidy. The food was served quickly and it was tasty. On the other hand the staff could have shown some more empathy.

Friendly staff , food was lovely . Chicken parmos was spot on ! Good value and didnt wait long for food. We were a party of 17 and waited approx 30 mins . Would recommend to all . Would give a 5 stars but we had to get up and go to the bar for drinks orders as nobody asked if we wanted any at the table and it was freezing sat under air con

Have been going here for 30+ years. Probably go twice a year. Always friendly staff, the boss always very friendly and helpful. Food always excellent for the price, and the freshly made (can watch the chefs) garlic bread / tomato garlic bread is the best I've ever had anywhere. Worth going just to try this.Went there August 8th for our tea. Had fajitas, my son had pizza and of course we had 2 garlic breads to share. Very nice place.