As a city with a love of socialising, eating out is an important part of Newcastle life. Newcastle upon Tyne is the largest city in the North East and boasts an abundance of café’s, bistros, coffee shops, and restaurants serving a full range of dishes with world wide origins. Newcastle’s own Chinatown, in addition to promoting and preserving Chinese life and custom, offers some excellent food from China and the far east including Mongolian and Japanese dishes.
Newcastle presents an ever changing environment with new riverfront Quayside developments offering an air of sophistication with high class cuisine and atmosphere on offer typified by the award winning Bar and Brasserie at Malmaison. Similarly, Blackfriars restaurant, named Metro Restaurant of the year, is well known in the city for it’s range and quality of British food including the classic British roasts.
For those with more cosmopolitan tastes, the Marco Polo Restaurant and La Toscana Ristorante offer the best in Italian and Mediterranean dishes and El Castano delivers it’s own slice of Spain. For the exquisite and subtle tastes of France, the Black Door restaurant prides itself on its authentic and expertly prepared French cuisine.
Newcastle is not just a meat lover’s paradise, with vegetarians and vegans also well served. Simply Greek, as its name suggests serves Greek vegetarian dishes often as a prelude to dancing and smashing plates in an authentic Greek style! Bob Trollop, at the Quayside offers vegetarian food and snacks and welcomes children during the daytime and you can bring your own bottle to the Sky Apple Café in the evening.
The social atmosphere of Newcastle upon Tyne is reflected in the bars and restaurants of the city. Many pubs and bars in serve food often to a very high standard and the tradition of serving visitors to the area is well established. Plan your eating out experience by selecting from our list of Newcastle restaurants presented here.
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