Tyne & Wear Restaurant Guide

Blackfriars Restaurant

Selected Restaurant

Today Blackfriars Restaurant is one of Newcastle's most recognised restaurants, with inclusions in the Good Food and Michelin Guides and an AA rosette; it was also the Metro Newspaper's 'Restaurant of the Year', and was awarded the 'Best Roast Dinner in the UK' by Kevin Spacey.

• Address: Friars Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4XN (Map)
• Cuisine(s): British, English
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £17.00, Dinner: £38.00

Blake's

• Address: 53 Grey Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE1 6EE (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Budget
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £10.00

Brasserie and Bar at Malmaison - Newcastle

Featured Restaurant

Newcastle has changed, in some places almost beyond recognition, and it is not just the physical aspects of this vibrant city. Down on the riverfront within easy reach of the millennium bridge, Tate of the North, the Sage Music Centre and Baltic Mills contemporary Arts Centre is another major conversion, the award-winning Malmaison.

• Address: Newcastle Quayside, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE1 3DX (Map)
• Cuisine(s): French, Grill, Modern British
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £20.00, Dinner: £33.00

Brasserie Black Door

Brasserie Black Door is a hundred seater restaurant located in the Biscuit Factory art gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne. It is owned by award-winning chef David Kennedy along with David Ladd who set up their sister restaurant, The Black Door, in 1994; it won the coveted Harden's Remy Award for Excellence 2006.

• Address: The Biscuit Factory, 16 Stoddart Street, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, NE2 1AN (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Bistro
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £20.00, Dinner: £45.00

Brasserie Restaurant

• Address: Menzies Silverlink Park, Silverlink, Coast Road, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, NE28 9HP (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Brasserie
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: N/A

Bridge Restaurant, The

The Vermont Hotel has been described as a Manhattan tower, but however it is viewed the views from it are spectacular in terms of urban landscape. Inside the décor is restrained in a modern kind of way with blue a predominant the colour.

• Address: The Vermont Newcastle, Castle Garth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE1 1RQ (Map)
• Cuisine(s): British, European
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £21.00, Dinner: £62.00

Cafe 21

After 19 years at 21 Queen Street, Terry Laybourne has moved his café to an improved site in Trinity Gardens, not far away for those who arrive baffled to find him gone, as it were. Menu-wise, not a lot has changed and their claim to create simple, imaginative dishes with respect for the ingredients continues to be practised with skill and success.

• Address: Trinity Gardens, Quayside, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, NE1 2HH (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Bistro
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £26.00, Dinner: £40.00

Cafe Live

Newcastle used to have a pretty grisly reputation for entertainment, but all that was light years ago. Nowadays it's the place to be in the North East and places like the Café Live Bar and Bistro at the Live Theatre complex are at the forefront of the action.

• Address: 27 Broad Chare, Quayside, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, NE1 3DQ (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Bistro, Bar
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £35.00

Cafe Mozart

This is a classic style dining room serving traditional fayre, in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere, making this venue the ideal place for intimate dining, or larger dinner parties.

• Address: Thistle Newcastle Hotel, Neville Street, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, NE99 1AH (Map)
• Cuisine(s): British
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £20.00

Cafe Rouge - Gateshead Metro Centre

Café Rouge has around one hundred branches throughout Britain all offering a wide range of dishes drawn from the French cuisine. Slightly less than half their branches are in or close to London. Almost inevitably the décor and design of each restaurant differs from the others, but there is a general curtsy towards La France.

• Address: Redmall, Metro Centre, Gateshead, NE11 9XR (Map)
• Cuisine(s): French
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £21.00, Dinner: £26.00