Tyne & Wear Restaurant Guide

One O Eight

• Address: 108 East Main Street, Whitburn, EH47 0JU (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Scottish
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £15.00, Dinner: £22.00

Open Kitchen at Gosforth Squash Club

• Address: Moor Court Annexe, Gosforth, NE3 4YD (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Modern British
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £42.00

Orchid

A warm friendly welcome awaits visitors at this latest offering from Kevin Liu's family restaurants, where the charming staff show genuine delight when a customer enters. Situated in the newly renovated bonded warehouse opposite the Copthorne Hotel in the heart of the dynamic quayside, it works from an exciting and innovative menu designed by executive chef Gary Ko Chun On.

• Address: Old Bonded Warehouse, The Close, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE1 3RJ (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Chinese
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £16.00, Dinner: £26.00

Pani's Cafe Bar

Ample proof, if proof was needed, that your friendly neighbourhood Italian café is a winner wherever it lands - even in Newcastle! I jest, of course. In many ways the Geordie has much in common with the Italians and the level of business at Pani's suggests that both parties know this to be true.

• Address: 61-65 High Bridge, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, NE1 6BX (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Italian
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £10.00, Dinner: £28.00

Paradiso

The cooking is fairly widely spaced here but in general the trend is towards the Mediterranean. Widely used by the business community and students alike it could expected to attract some criticism but in fact there seems to be very little, with positive comment on the staff and the consistency of the food.

• Address: 1 Market Lane, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, NE1 6QQ (Map)
• Cuisine(s): International, Modern European
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £12.00, Dinner: £35.00

Piccolino - Newcastle

Inspired by the mix of traditional charm and contemporary buzz associated with New York brasseries, Piccolino offers a prodigious menu of classic Italian dishes covering antipasto, pizza, pasta, meat and fish, all served with welcoming and efficient service.

• Address: Stockbridge House, Trinity Gardens, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, NE1 2HJ (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Italian
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £22.00, Dinner: £28.00

Pitcher & Piano - Newcastle

P and P first started in Fulham in 1986, since when it has evolved into one of the UK's favourite bar groups, offering premium drinks, mingled with food that carries its own distinction against a background of different themes, many deriving from the locality, and from what is the whole being of contemporary life in modern bars.

• Address: 108 The Quayside, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, NE1 3DX (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Modern, Bar
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £12.00, Dinner: £25.00

Pizza Express - Newcastle

Pizza Express remains a hugely popular bedrock of casual eating. Its popularity is testimony to the fact that across the country, they have restaurants where you will always be guaranteed a good nosh, with children's tastes being well catered for.

• Address: 10 Dean Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE1 1PG (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Pizza & Pasta
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £15.00, Dinner: £21.00

Place Restaurant, The

• Address: 11 Tavistock Place, Sunderland, SR1 1PB (Map)
• Cuisine(s): English
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £32.00

Plate Restaurant, The

It is always refreshing to find a busy, modern fringe-of-city hotel that cherishes its dining facilities rather than treating them as a necessary provision that will remain untouched by many of their clients apart from a fleeting breakfast if the schedule permits.

• Address: Newcastle Marriott Hotel Gosforth Park, High Gosforth Park, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE3 5HN (Map)
• Cuisine(s): French
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £21.00, Dinner: £38.00