Cafe Curio

Fancy a lunchtime meal at a vintage shop where you could take home your plate, fork and even your table perhaps, once you're done! Café Curio on Bridge Street is a unique restaurant and antique shop rolled into one, with lampshades, chandeliers and Victorian furniture, all lending a nostalgic feel. Going by the number of diners who throng its door, you can be assured that this concept has gone down well with the locals.

After you've absorbed those classic collectables, its time to focus on some French fare credited with the use of local ingredients, think homemade soups such as smoked Northumberland cheddar cheese and rocket pesto to a Berwick seafood plate featuring crab. The menu changes weekly and embraces dishes like fresh Eyemouth cod with capers, cherry tomatoes and flat leaf parsley, aubergines cooked with tapenade and goat's cheese, and raspberry and almond torte.

The shop-while-you-eat concept can hardly be bettered in this part of Northumberland, and Café Curio does well to stir up one's curiosity.