Cafes - The creme de la creme

When it’s time for coffee and cake or tea and a perfectly dunked biscuit, there’s an absolute feast of lush cafes and tea rooms which are unique to Newcastle and Gateshead.

Here’s the beginning of our list of favourites. Spoiler alert: there’s a decent chance you won’t be able to resist an accompanying treat alongside your cuppa in any of these delightful places.

Pink Lane Coffee

What is it? A café tucked neatly at the bottom of Pink Lane just a stone’s throw from Newcastle Central Station. A place for the coffee connoisseur, you can drink…

Café 1901

What is it? A very popular café/bistro at the heart of bustling Jesmond where drinks, meals and sweet and savoury snacks are served throughout the day. Coffee lovers will find…

Cake Stories

What is it? It’s a coffee house and cakery because that’s what it says on the sign; and if you can’t find ‘cakery’ in your dictionary (we couldn’t), then it…

Willi’s

What is it? A busy and popular café on one of Jesmond’s bijou shopping streets where breakfast and brunch – even lunch if you prefer – are served along with…

The Butterfly Cabinet

What is it? A vibrant café where you’re likely to see a queue outside when the door opens in the morning. It’s well known, you see, for its mouth-watering (and…

Flat Caps Coffee

What is it? A popular café tucked away from the city’s main drag which is roomy enough, should you so desire and we know you wouldn’t, to swing that proverbial…

The Biscuit Factory

What is it? An independent commercial art and craft gallery, supposedly the biggest in the country, housed in a former Victorian warehouse where biscuits were once produced. Now it is…

Newcastle Arts Centre

What is it? Newcastle Arts Centre is all sorts of things – craft shop, cafe, gallery, the barn-like art materials shop, Details and a venue upstairs which is the new…

BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art

What is it? As the title suggests, a centre for contemporary art but HUGE. It used to be the Baltic Flour Mills – opened by Joseph Rank Ltd on the…

Monsieur Crêpe Cafe

What is it? A fabulous creperie in High Heaton, mixing traditional French crepes and savoury gallettes with American pancake stacks and fresh sandwiches and salads. The homely cafe started life…

Super Natural Café

What is it? Named in homage to the first dedicatedly veggie and vegan restaurant to grace the streets on Newcastle in the seventies, Super Natural Café can be found serving…

The Great British Cupcakery

What is it? A boutique bakehouse and all round delight of a place to take your mouth would be an accurate description of this nailed-on  temple of treats. The ‘Parlour’…

The Naked Deli

What is it? Well, according to their strapline, it’s ‘your place for clean and healthy eating’. But we like to think of our go-to eating out spot for tummy-pleasing food…

Les Petit Choux

What is it? A corking family-run coffee shop and top drawer patisserie which is presided over by a mother and her two daughters – baking masters all it seems. Everything…

Ernest

What is it? Ernest is an absolute belter of a cafe bar, which has charmed itself into the routines of anyone who regularly finds themselves at the top end of…

Heaton Perk

What is it? We’ll tell you what it is. It’s where all the cool cats of Heaton get their coffee, cake and cushion inspiration. A proper gem of an independent…