North East Restaurant Guide

Cachette, La

• Address: 31 Huddersfield Road, Elland, HX5 9AW (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Modern European
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £27.00

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 Bar at Purple Hotel Doncaster

A good example of the modern purpose-designed hotels now springing up throughout the country, prompting the thought that despite advantages in communications, nothing beats the presence of real people.

• Address: Decoy Bank South, off White Rose Way, Doncaster, DN4 5PD (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Bar, Café
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: N/A

Cafe Concerto

What happens when you step into Café Concerto and find strains of jazz music wafting within manuscript-papered walls, creating a laid-back atmosphere? You may be inclined to think that this charming little bistro-style café truly lives up to its name.

• Address: 21 High Petergate, York, YO1 7EN (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Bistro, Modern European, Café
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £15.00, Dinner: £34.00

Cafe Glas and The Arncliffe Arms

This is a place with a menu, and good ones at that, for each and every occasion, set amidst the stunning scenery where the Yorkshire Dales shake off their smooth rounded shapes and become more verdant and covered with trees.

• Address: 1 Arncliffe Terrace, Glaisdale, Whitby, YO21 2QL (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Bistro, Modern British, Gastropub
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £16.00, Dinner: £28.00

Cafe Lilli

For a bistro serving remarkable international and Mediterranean fare, Café Lilli on Norton's High Street has notched up a lot of brownie points with locals and visitors alike. It is simple, unpretentious and yes, it is the food that will draw you back there, time and again.

• Address: 83-85 Norton High Street, Norton, nr Stockton-On-Tees, TS20 1AE (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Bistro, International, Mediterranean
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £20.00, Dinner: £35.00

Cafe Lowrey

Welcome to this informal café-style restaurant in a double-fronted shop conversion, located in comfortable green-belt surroundings. Chefs have come and gone here but the current occupant, to whom one can only wish a long and happy stay, is David Ward.

• Address: 33-35 The Broadway, Darras Hall Estate, Ponteland, NE20 9PW (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Modern British
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £22.00, Dinner: £33.00

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

Cafe Rouge - Harrogate

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: 21-29 Beulah Street, Harrogate, HG1 1JZ (Map)
• Cuisine(s): French
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £21.00, Dinner: £26.00