Food and Drink

Get basic supplies at local supermarkets, including our Co-Op store on campus. Pick up fresh food and veg from stalls on Northumberland Street.

Stock up on the delicious artisan produce on sale at the Sunday Quayside market. In Grainger Market find butchers, bakers and cheese makers, green grocers and delis offering top quality fresh ingredients.

If you’re missing food from home, Newcastle has both international supermarkets and more specialist stores stocking foodstuffs from:

• Europe
• the Mediterranean
• the Middle East
• Caribbean
• Asia

Chinatown is a great spot for authentic Chinese, Korean and Japanese ingredients.

Coffee shops, sandwich shops and patisseries across the city serve up brunches, lunches, sweet and savoury treats. You can eat in or take away. 

For something that’s filling, flavourful and fast, try Newcastle’s:

• noodle bars
• sushi stations
• pizza places
• burrito bars
• burger joints
• cookhouses

Watch out for student discounts and meal deals.

Born in Newcastle as a delivery service in 1939, turned into a Gosforth-based bakery and now a national chain. It’s a cultural experience to sample the all-time best seller, the Greggs sausage roll. At Christmas time it’s the turn of the much-anticipated Greggs Festive Bake. 

From traditional fish and chips to fried chicken, kebabs, burgers, pizza, noodles, curries and more. Options are endless and available from high street chains as well as independent kitchens.

Almost every cuisine is available through your favourite delivery app. Cost-wise it can add up, but it does provide fast food from store to door.

Grainger Market’s food stalls offer a mash-up of sensational global flavours.

A changing menu of independent traders at the Sunday Quayside market means there’s always something new to try.

Festive food and mulled wine is always on the menu at Newcastle’s Christmas market.

Shipping container communities serve as street food and entertainment hubs in the city. In the shadow of Newcastle United’s football stadium, St James’ STACK is a food and fan zone space. Frate provides street food al fresco combined with a cultural community space.

Where there’s a festival, there’s food. But Newcastle is also seeing the rise of dedicated food events. The most delicious and prestigious is the 2nd Bite annual charity fundraiser featuring the dishes of local Michelin star chefs.

Discover restaurants and kitchens serving food from:

• India
• Türkiye
• Italy
• Mexico
• Greece
• Brazil
• Lebanon
• Thailand
• the Caribbean
• and many more

Eat at some of the best Chinese restaurants in the city. Founded in 1978, Chinatown is centred around Stowell Street. Every Chinese New Year it plays host to a parade including traditional dragon and lion dancing.

Two top city-centre restaurants hold prestigious Michelin stars. A further 10 restaurants in Newcastle and its suburbs are mentioned in the Michelin Guide.

Choose from rooftop spots and country house vibes to restaurants in some of the city’s oldest and most beautiful buildings. Department store Fenwick’s has even turned its stylish food hall into a fine dining haven.

Newcastle’s Bigg Market has some of the city’s liveliest clubs and mainstream bars. Venues include a Bavarian bierkeller and a converted gentleman’s underground toilet that’s now a swanky space.

Grey Street’s cocktail lounges and smart modern bars sit inside historic buildings. Watch the sun go down and the city light up from rooftop terraces and outdoor seating areas. 

Bars and clubs along the Quayside make the most of their riverside location, especially when the Millennium bridge lights up with a rainbow of colours at the weekend.

Close to Newcastle’s Central Station is the ‘Diamond Strip’. Expect bars with stricter dress codes and discerning door staff, as well as some of the best DJs, dance floors and glitzy lounges.

Newcastle’s lively LGBTQIA+ scene is focused around a ‘Pink Triangle’ near the Utilita Arena. It includes the bars and dance-party venues around the Life centre and its Times Square events space.