Five ‘perfect’ and ‘quaint’ farm shops ranked the best in County Durham

A farm shop is a perfect place for that – especially if it has a coffee shop attached. For breakfast, lunch or brunch, we have picked out five great farm shops that have coffee shops attached.

Here is what we found from scouring TripAdvisor:

Knitsley Farm Shop and Granary Café

East Knitsley Grange Farm Knitsley, Consett, DH8 9EW

A cosy and inviting Café/Restaurant adjacent to a wonderful farm shop, situated on a working farm along a private drive. Beautiful courtyard exterior with external dining in pleasant weather.

This farm shop and café is one of the best out there – with many people raving online about how great it is.

And the reviews on TripAdvisor suggest that is correct. 

Praising Knitsley Farm Shop and Granary Café online, one person said: “Friendly atmosphere and good food. We had been given a voucher and wanted to try it out. We haven’t been here since Covid but glad to find that standard is the same and staff are very…