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St James Boulevard
Waterloo Square
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE1 4DP
www.electric-east.co.uk
0191 221 1000
Lunch: Fri only
Dinner: Mon to Sat 6 - 9.45pm
Nearly three years ago Electric East emerged phoenix-like from the ashes of a Newcastle institution called Barn Asia, which I’d only managed to visit once before it fell into administration.
Based on that one experience, which thankfully I was never called on to chronicle, I reckoned they only got half the name right – it was a bit of a barn, but I could detect little of Asia in its cooking. I found much of it bland, and some actually rather unpleasant.
That has been my lame excuse for not reviewing its successor until now. However Electric East is well thought of by some, and has even managed a listing in the Michelin guide, so this secret visit was long overdue.
