Reviews in Newcastle City Centre

Sachins Restaurant was described to me as being one of Newcastles best kept secrets. The food and service was great and made my visit to Newcastle most memorable. I will be recommending it to all of my friends.

Went to El Coto for a meal with colleagues just before Christmas. Was really good atmosphere and the food was the best Tapas experience I've had in Newcastle. Service was average/good but I guess its just the Spanish way. Thoroughly recommend El Coto. I'll certainly be going back.

This is different, this is real, the best ever Indian meal I?e had. Rasa serves the food from the Southern region of India and it is one hundred times better than the usual soulless curries, which are a pool of oil most of the times. Been there accidentally because their neighbouring place was full and I have found my type of food here. Healthy and with full of flavours.

This is one of my favourite Italian restaurants in Newcastle. The food has always been very good, the wine selection is excellent, the cost is reasonable and it has a nice atmosphere. The only lacking area is the customer service sometimes. If they improved on this I would visit more often and tip a lot more.

Wow! Awesome food.........I'd love to go there again.

We had a great xmas night out here on 9th Dec. Food was very good and the staff and service excellent, would definitely recommend to anyone.

The previous night we had been to the Theatre Royal and tried the competitor on the other side of Grey Street (Zizzi) which was truly dreadful. So it was with somewhat low expectations that we went to Barluga. We were very pleasantly surprised. There was a very good live jazz band playing. We had a very nice bottle of wine, and the quick bite tempura prawns, beef sandwich and a massive portion of potatoes wedged chips. Excellent value and served very promptly. Highly recommended for a quick pre-theatre bite.

I have ate my Indians from Latif's for 18 years, (I was previously a customer of the Al-Helal whilst under Mr. Latif's ownership). I must say I can't eat curry from anywhere else.... The staff and family that work there are excellent and always have a good chat with me when I go, not many waiting staff have as good a personality as these!

Beautiful... one of the best indian takeaways going.

I have only been twice the first experience was a work Christmas night out and I found the food awful on that occasion. However I gave it the benefit of the doubt and went again for another occasion and had a completely different experience the food was good and the staff friendly but not intrusive. Glad I went back!

I agree this is a nice little place friendly and incredibly cheap and the quality of food is not effected by the price. Try it!

Great place I have eaten there many times. They have been refurbished and it looks great and the price of food has not increased to pay for it either. The only moan I have is that you get bread sticks instead of rolls not too keen on that otherwise they make one of the finest stagoni pizza's in Newcastle.

Definitely one of the best restaurants I have ever been to and I would certainly recommend it. I travel quite often and I have been to many exclusive restaurants throughout the world but I must say I am highly impressed with the quality and service of Khans.

Rao Balti house is the most outstanding Indian restaurant I have ever tasted

El Torero, The Side, NE1 1PR tel 0191 233 1122 Friends had told us that we might have to wait for a table at El Torero the Spanish Tapas Restaurant if we called in on a Friday night. Although it appeared busy, we were ushered to a table immediately when we arrived at about 7.40pm. By the time we moved to the bar after 9.00pm the place was full and diners who had not booked were being advised that they might have to wait over 30 minutes for a table. Most appeared quite happy because they were going to get a table and it would give them the opportunity to soak up the atmosphere and people watch whist they waited in the bar. It is so interesting to see people come in off a cold street into a warm vibrant restaurant with the staff fussing round them. It adds to the atmosphere to hear the Spanish language being used at a high volume and fast rate as drinks are ordered and tables prepared by the mainly Spanish staff. There were large parties, couples and family groups all seemingly having a great time. We had been forewarned not to order too many tapas. Restricting ourselves was difficult, as there is such a wide variety on the extensive menu. We settled for the ?ordero a la pepitoria?(succulent lamb braised in a tomato and cream sauce), ?otatas a la riojana?(a mix of fried potatoes, red peppers and chorizo sausage) and ?opa vieja?(chickpeas in a spicy tomato sauce with spicy sausage). Ordering the tapas was taken as a challenge like the GCSE speaking test (menu closed and no using English). The waiters were great as they tried to work out our mangled pronunciation, all part of the fun with the reward of the tapas being delivered fairly quickly to the table rather than the very long wait for GCSE results. Within each of the three tapas there was a mix of distinctive flavours, each enjoyable on its own or mixed with the others. The quantities were generous especially the lamb and both my partner and I drooled (figuratively and literally) over the chickpeas. With just a little space still left for the rest of our Torrecilli red wine we chose one more tapas, ?atiles con beicon?(dates in bacon). This tapas with the delicate taste of the smoky bacon round a date stuffed with an almond is best consumed on its own to experience the subtle mix of textures and flavours. The wine and the four tapas came to a reasonable £28.50. We certainly found the service and food excellent and we really enjoyed the ambience and style of the restaurant. It is the sort of place that you feel you have to return to and we most certainly will.

A good solid Italian

this restaurant has a special from 6 to 9pm which is £6.95 its fantastic value

Simply the best curry in Newcastle, plus it's unlicensed so take your own booze. used to be scruffy but very posh and modern now, their food simply isn't bettered in the north east.