Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Newcastle Upon Tyne from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Newcastle Upon Tyne
The Quayside holds House of Tides, SOLSTICE BY KENNY ATKINSON, Dobson & Parnell and Six. Heaton adds Rebel and Nest for tasting menus away from the riverfront.
House of Tides in Quayside is a tasting-menu room in a 16th-century merchant’s house. It serves Modern British fine dining with an extensive wine list and sommelier-led service. House of Tides holds a Michelin star, and the menu changes daily.
SOLSTICE BY KENNY ATKINSON in Quayside is a 14-seat tasting counter with a no-choice menu. It serves Modern British fine dining with an extensive wine list and sommelier-led service. SOLSTICE BY KENNY ATKINSON holds a Michelin star, and the menu draws on locally sourced seafood and Northumberland produce.
Rebel in Heaton runs tasting menus and small plates in a narrow neighbourhood room. The kitchen is Modern British fine dining with an extensive wine list. Rebel holds Michelin Plate recognition, with seasonal local produce and organic and biodynamic wines part of the offer.
St. Vincent in Quayside has an exceptional wine program and holds a Star Wine List award. House in Jesmond holds a Star Wine List award and serves classic cocktails, and The Patricia in Jesmond serves natural wine with Modern British cooking.
St. Vincent in Quayside has an exceptional wine program and a drinks list that includes natural wine. It also holds a Star Wine List award from 2026, and the bar serves Mediterranean small plates.
House in Jesmond pairs classic cocktails with a wine program that earned a Star Wine List award from 2026. It also serves pub food such as Sunday roasts. The room can accommodate large groups.
The Patricia in Jesmond is a Modern British bistro with a wine list and a natural wine focus. Seasonal, organic cooking shapes the menu, and the room keeps a neighbourhood feel.
Quayside and Heaton hold the main tasting-menu restaurants in our guide. Quayside has House of Tides, SOLSTICE BY KENNY ATKINSON, Dobson & Parnell, 21 and Six, while Heaton adds Rebel and Nest.
There are 2 Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide. House of Tides in Quayside serves a daily-changing Modern British fine dining tasting menu, and SOLSTICE BY KENNY ATKINSON in Quayside is a 14-seat tasting counter with a no-choice menu.
Quayside is the main place for tasting menus in our guide. House of Tides and SOLSTICE BY KENNY ATKINSON lead that cluster, and Rebel in Heaton gives the city a strong neighbourhood alternative. The clearest multi-course dining sits on the riverfront, with one east-end option away from it.
Two places in our guide hold Star Wine List awards: St. Vincent and House. St. Vincent is in Quayside, and House is in Jesmond. St. Vincent also has the city’s exceptional wine program, which makes it the clearest wine-led bar in the guide.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
Best of Newcastle Upon Tyne
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Selected entries from the current guide for Newcastle Upon Tyne.
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House of Tides occupies a 16th-century merchant's house on Newcastle's Quayside, where flagstone floors and carved beams frame a Michelin-starred tasting menu rooted in Modern British technique. Kenny Atkinson's flagship has held its star since 2014 and ranks among the more consistently reviewed fine-dining rooms in the north of England, with La Liste placing it at 82 points in 2026.
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Solstice by Kenny Atkinson is a 14-seat tasting counter on Newcastle's Quayside, operating Wednesday through Saturday with a no-choice menu of up to 19 courses priced at £175 per head. Holding a Michelin star since 2024 and scoring 83 points in La Liste's 2026 ranking, it sits above its sibling House of Tides in ambition and price, with locally sourced seafood and Northumberland produce forming the backbone of a technically precise menu.
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A Michelin Bib Gourmand pub on Newcastle's historic Quayside, Broad Chare occupies a converted warehouse on the lane that shares its name. The ground-floor bar pours more than 50 beers alongside snacks, while the upstairs dining room delivers hearty Traditional British cooking at fair prices. Two consecutive Bib Gourmand awards (2024 and 2025) confirm its standing as one of the city's most consistent value propositions.
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Long Friday in West Jesmond brings serious kitchen ambition to a neighbourhood setting, where Northumbrian produce meets influences from Japan, Mexico and the Mediterranean in a small-plates format. Wines are available by the glass from £5.50, and the walk from Jesmond metro station is short enough to make it genuinely accessible. Casual in feel but encyclopaedic in product knowledge, it reads as one of Newcastle's more considered neighbourhood restaurants.
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A Michelin Plate holder occupying a creative workspace in Newcastle's Ouseburn Valley, Cook House built its reputation on fiercely seasonal British cooking with a strong hibachi-driven menu. Founded by food writer Anna Hedworth through crowdfunding, the stripped-back industrial setting now spans two floors, a deli, terrace, and kitchen garden, all at a price point that makes it one of the more accessible entries in the city's modern British scene.
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Dobson & Parnell occupies an 1863 building on Newcastle's Queen Street, a short walk from the Quayside, and holds a Michelin Plate for cooking that takes recognisable dishes and sharpens them into something more considered. The ££ price point places it below the city's tasting-menu-only rooms, making it one of the more accessible addresses for serious modern cooking in the north-east.
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On a suburban Heaton street better known for student takeaways, Rebel runs a 10-course tasting menu built around seasonal local produce, organic and biodynamic wines, and service that earns Michelin Plate recognition. The cooking plays with texture and familiarity, cod tartare, charred hen of the woods, Jersey Royal reimagined as a cheese and onion crisp, in a narrow, art-hung room that feels genuinely considered rather than designed.
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21 sits inside Newcastle's smarter brasserie tier, where gin selections and zinc-topped counters signal intent before a single plate arrives. The menu runs classic Modern British with enough confidence to earn a 2025 Michelin Plate and an Opinionated About Dining recommendation. At £££, it occupies the middle ground between the city's casual dining scene and its Michelin-starred upper bracket.
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Dating from the early 13th century, Blackfriars occupies what may be the UK's oldest purpose-built dining room, a former Dominican friary refectory on Friars Street in Newcastle's city centre. The menu runs modern British with regional ingredients and international inflections, backed by own-brewed beers and a global wine list. Operated by the Hooked On Group, the complex includes a courtyard garden, a bar, a brewery, and a medieval banqueting hall.
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Lovage is a neighbourhood brasserie on St George's Terrace in Jesmond, where chef Kleo Tabaku brings Mediterranean flavours to seasonal cooking. Choose à la carte, a fixed-price menu or a tasting menu, with European wines alongside. Lisa Hide leads the front of house.
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A Michelin Plate-recognised Modern British restaurant on Chillingham Road in Newcastle's east end, Nest occupies a quieter tier of the city's dining scene than the Quayside flagships but draws. The £££ price point and neighbourhood address position it as a serious kitchen operating away from the centre, where the cooking speaks without the fanfare.
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From the team behind Lovage in Jesmond, Osters brings a seafood-focused menu to Gosforth High Street with a Michelin Plate in both 2024 and 2025. The kitchen takes a direct approach: prime fish and shellfish, restrained technique, and combinations that let the ingredient lead. At ££, it occupies an accessible tier within Newcastle's growing dining scene.
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Perched on the sixth floor of the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Six holds a Michelin Plate and a front-row view of the River Tyne. The set menu arrives in 'Land and Sea' or 'Plant' formats, drawing on regional produce including Seaton Sluice langoustines and wild rabbit. At £££, it sits in the same price tier as Lovage and 21, and well above Broad Chare, making it one of Newcastle's more considered fine-dining propositions.
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Four tables, a window counter, and a blackboard menu that changes with whatever Sam Betts feels like cooking: The Small Canteen on Starbeck Avenue operates at the opposite end of the spectrum from Newcastle's tasting-menu circuit. Portions run large, prices run low, and the room runs close enough that you'll likely leave knowing your neighbours' orders as well as your own.
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Al Dente Cucina Italiana brings Italian cooking to Saville Place in Newcastle upon Tyne, occupying a corner of the city's dining scene where regional European traditions hold their own against a strong Modern British current. For a city increasingly defined by its contemporary restaurant ambition, a kitchen rooted in Italian craft offers a distinct counterpoint worth understanding before you book.
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CANTINA occupies a residential stretch of Heaton Park Road in Newcastle's east end, sitting at a remove from the city centre dining circuit that clusters around the Quayside and Grey Street. The address alone signals an operation built on neighbourhood loyalty rather than footfall, which in British casual dining tends to separate the places worth seeking out from those that rely on passing trade.
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On Osborne Road in Jesmond, Chakh Dhoom brings South Asian cooking to one of Newcastle's most food-conscious neighbourhoods. The restaurant sits in a stretch that draws locals who expect substance over spectacle, making it a reliable address for those who want the depth of subcontinental cuisine without the formality of a city-centre dining room. Book ahead for weekend sittings.
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Earthlings - The Healing Cafe sits on Buckingham Street in Newcastle's Elswick district, operating in a corner of the city where plant-based and wellness-oriented cafes have slowly carved out a following distinct from the fine-dining corridor along the Quayside. Where Newcastle's headline restaurant scene runs toward Modern British tasting menus, Earthlings occupies a quieter, more community-facing register.
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Teppanyaki as a format puts the cooking apparatus at the centre of the meal, and Fujiyama on Bath Lane brings that live-fire theatre to Newcastle's West End. The iron griddle shapes everything from menu architecture to table dynamics, making the kitchen performance as much a part of the experience as the food itself. For Newcastle diners curious about Japanese cooking beyond the standard sushi format, it occupies a distinct position in the city's dining scene.
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On Blandford Street in Newcastle's city centre, Lubber Kitchen occupies a stretch of the city that rewards those who look past the obvious dining corridors. EP Club places it within Newcastle's broader independent dining conversation, alongside the city's more documented neighbourhood addresses.
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The name, Sicilian slang for a lovable rogue, signals the register: informal, ingredient-led, and rooted in southern Italian tradition rather than the kind of modernist Italian cooking that has come to dominate city-centre menus.
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Miller & Carter on Mosley Street sits inside Newcastle's mid-range steakhouse tier, where the city's appetite for prime British beef finds a reliable, accessible address. Part of a national group with a consistent formula built around aged cuts and a broad supporting menu, it appeals to groups and occasions where format familiarity matters as much as the plate itself.
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My Delhi at 87A Clayton Street brings North Indian cooking into the heart of Newcastle's city centre dining circuit. The kitchen works in a tradition that prizes spice architecture over heat alone, placing it in a different register from the curry-house format that once dominated the North East's Indian restaurant scene. For those tracking where Newcastle's mid-tier dining has moved, this address is worth attention.
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House on Heaton Road holds a Star Wine List award for 2026, placing it among a focused tier of Newcastle bars where the drinks programme carries serious curatorial weight. Located in the Heaton neighbourhood rather than the city centre circuit, it operates outside the obvious Saturday-night current, which tends to attract a more deliberate kind of drinker. The wine-led approach makes it a reference point for those tracking the North East's evolving bar scene.
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St. Vincent on Broad Chare is Newcastle's Star Wine List-recognised bar, operating at the serious end of the city's drinks scene. For wine-led drinking in Newcastle, it is the credentialled reference point.
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