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 Major Re-brands and Refurbishments
Sidney’s Restaurant in Tynemouth has just re-opened after a major refurbishment. North Tyneside’s most awarded restaurant now boasts a walnutesq floor, soft chocolate leather seating together with aubergine and cream walls. Sidney’s owner, Andy Hook, explained ‘we wanted to lighten up the dining rooms whilst creating a warm, cosy and luxurious feel’.
The food will also change with an emphasis on simple but delicious bistro dishes made from ultra-fresh, local and seasonal produce such as Langoustine risotto with yellow cherry tomatoes and saffron, Corn-fed chicken with confit garlic, spinach, potatoes and bacon, North Sea halibut with pancetta, wild mushrooms &sautéed potatoes and Local cheeses with grapes and home-made chutney.
It’s all change too at Sidney’s sister eaterie in Newcastle with the 800 year old dining room changing from ‘Blackfriars Café Bar’ to ‘Blackfriars Restaurant’ to reflect the ‘seriously good food’ currently being produced.
Again, the emphasis is very much on elegant modern-British food using local and seasonal produce such as Pan-flashed scallops with asparagus wrapped in Parma ham, Char-grilled fillet with goats cheese, French black pudding & fresh chips and Pistachio chocolate mousse cake with mango & rose ice cream
Not too late for Christmas
If you’re still wondering where to have your Christmas Party, there’s still a bit of space at Sidney’s and Blackfriars Restaurant as well as Café Peel @ Dance City – see sidneys.co.uk, blackfriarsrestaurant.co.uk and cafepeel.co.uk.
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Café Peel @ Dance City launch
 The Hooked-on Group’s latest venture, Café Peel has just launched within the new £7.6 million Dance City facility off St James Boulevard. The stand-alone café restaurant houses an open-plan kitchen, chic cream bar and a 50-seater dining room.
Open all day for breakfast, lunch and dinner (but closed on Sunday nights) the café is the vibrant, social hub of the dance facility and is exclusively open to PEOPLE LIKE YOU!
Every day kicks off with cakes, pastries, yoghurt, freetrade coffee, juices and smoothies available from 8.30am. From mid-morning onwards, a selection of globally-inspired mouth-watering ‘grazing’ dishes, deli breads and kids’ lunch boxes are available for eat–in or take-out.
A selection of bar-sharing street food accompanies an award-winning list of wines, beers and juice-based cocktails is available in the evening with Sundays given-over to serving extra brunch items, breakfasts, pancakes and lots of fresh coffee and juices.
The team behind Café Peel includes marketing guru and ballet dancer, Lorraine Jukes and Newcastle-born chef, Simon Brown, who spent 25 years in Vancouver and New York before returning to spend six years cooking in London on his way back to Newcastle.
Café Peel already has its Christmas Menu out which can be found on: www.blackfriarscafebar.co.uk/news/latestnews.asp.
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Christine Hamilton launches British Sausage Week
Bangers and mash were on the menu at Blackfriars Restaurant this week with the launch of British Sausage Week and so too was Christine Hamilton who was shipped in to help judge the regional Bangers and Mash competition heat. ‘I love a good meaty sausage’ she told the assembled media circus as she settled down to judge the competition along with owner Andy Hook.
Lancashire born Kevin Verkins won the competition with his pork, leek and sage sausage with Doug Nicholson of Whitley Bay and Grainger Market butcher Vic Temple named as runners up. The competition was shown live on BBC TV and ITV
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Italian Super-Tuscan Wine Tasting
Blackfriars Restaurant launches an evening tasting of Super-Tuscan Wines in conjunction with Slow Food Newcastle with guest speaker Pierre Lacroix.
Tuscany is Renaissance country - the towns, the villages, the terracotta-roofed houses and the hummock hills have changed little since the days when Leonardo da Vinci painted them. But this is also the heart of the renaissance of Italian Wine. The term ‘Super Tuscan’ came about when innovative and dynamic wine makers flouted anarchic Italian wine laws by adding their own grape varieties, such as Cabernet Sauvignon or Merlot, to the humble Sangiovese grape to produce some of the finest reds on the planet.
The evening takes place at 7pm on Wednesday 30 November at Blackfriars Restaurant at a cost, including a tutored wine tasting and convivial 3 course meal, of just £25 (with £3 going to Slow Food Newcastle).
Ex-Sidney’s turns to Deli
Ex-Sidney’s manageress, Sue Plevey, has hopped off just 100 yards down the road to open her own place – ‘Deli around the corner’. The small but well-stocked ex-barber shop on Hotspur street in Tynemouth is decked out in olive green and creams and can be found by following the constant queue it seems to always have stretching right out of the shop
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