Sorento Takeaway

Sorento Takeaway runs out of a small Manor Road unit in St Helen Auckland, the village on the south-western edge of Bishop Auckland where the A688 climbs up towards West Auckland. The current trading entity, Sorento Takeaway (NE) Limited, took the unit on in 2023 as an Italian-leaning pizza-and-kebab operation with halal handling. Aggregated review feedback runs at around 4.2 out of five across the major platforms, with reviewer comments repeatedly picking out the chicken kebab as the standout dish and praising the parmo execution — the Teesside chicken-in-bechamel speciality that long since spread across south-west Durham. The kitchen runs the broader pizza-and-kebab repertoire alongside the special boxes that have become the local format for sharing orders. Delivery covers St Helen Auckland into West Auckland, the Cockton Hill end of Bishop Auckland and the run of villages south towards Evenwood. Online ordering is handled through the shop's own site at sorentotakeaway.co.uk alongside Just Eat. The Manor Road position puts Sorento next door to the long-established Royal Chef Chinese takeaway, giving St Helen Auckland an unusually broad takeaway choice for a village its size and pulling in cross-trade that smaller villages in the area cannot support.