Newcastle’s Quayside has a plethora of fine Italian restaurants to choose from, so it would take a brave restaurant chain to step on their toes and try to offer something different.
Football is never really associated with good food. You might be lucky to get a pukka pie for £6 or if you’re corporate enough, maybe a prawn sandwich.
While Old Eldon Square in Newcastle was once an intimidating place to meet up for many people, today it’s the best meeting point in town. The redeveloped area is nearing completion and will soon be littered with the city’s young professionals sipping on their Starbucks while they work from their Blackberry during lunch.
If you’ve ever stumbled out of Popolo and decided to have one more for the road, chances are you’ve skipped merrily next door to Newcastle’s finest Italian bar, Secco on Pilgrim Street.