The best restaurants in Newcastle: 11 places for top-tier nosh

Famous for its bridges, its black-and-white-striped football team, its big-hearted warmth (the people, if not the temperatures), Newcastle has usually been dismissed as a dining hot-spot. That would be unwise. The city gained its first Michelin star over 35 years ago; it now has two Michelin-starred restaurants as well as a jostling handful of serious wannabees. And that’s just at the fine-dining end, the tip of an eating-out scene that crackles like the Geordie humour.

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