newcastlecentric

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. Read full story

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. Read full story

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. Read full story

It’s not hard to fall over a burger joint in Newcastle these days but Newcastle hasn’t had an independent burger restaurant / diner since New York, New York closed in the eighties.

Stateside Diner on Pink Lane would appear to fill the allbeit small void for a 50’s style American diner and as such is small but perfectly formed. Read full story

There’s something mildly filthy and wrong about eating curry on a lunchtime. Entering an indian restaurant during daylight hours feels not unlike been caught putting your dad’s special love video back in the wardrobe, on the jumper shelf, at the left hand side.

Not that we ever did that or anything. It was a friend.

And so we ignored the pangs of guilt, preferring to follow our pangs of hunger, to the Raj Tandoori in Pudding Chare for the 12 til 2 lunchtime special. Read full story

If you’ve never seen the site before, scoresonthedoors.org.uk provides a revealing glimpse into the kitchens of your favourite Newcastle eateries. Read full story

In the hunt for a lunchtime special that would ensure we didn’t have to eat again that day, while at the same time pacifying the tight-fisted amongst us, we landed at a restaurant familiar to most. Read full story

If you can walk down Brentwood Avenue without struggling with issues concerning your class and social standing, you probably already live in West Jesmond and can’t see what the problem is.

For the rest of the human race, it’s all a bit. Well. Posh. Avanti is the seemingly age-old restaurant that bookends this refined line of delicatessens and coffee emporiums. Thankfully it’s not quite as snooty as you’d think. Read full story