Food ✪✪✪✪
Service ✪✪✪✪
Ambience ✪✪✪✪
1 Boyd Street
Ouseburn
Newcastle
NE2 1AP
0191 260 5216
www.weareernest.com
Food 10am – 9pm daily
***BEST CAFE 2013***
Ernest is actually Gavin: Gavin Marshall, a local glass artist who started out life as an Ernest, but hated the name so much, he dumped it. Last year he resurrected it when he sold his kiln to open this excellent café bar.
Next to the car repair shop under the arches of the Byker railway bridge, Ernest is certainly out of the way. The building used to house an indifferent Italian called La Gabbia, but Gavin has transformed it into a quirky gastrobar.
It isn’t pretending to be a restaurant, it’s part of the new wave of café cuisine, attracting a creative community that really loves good food.
In fact, the cooking is so good that, having enjoyed one lunch there, I went back again the following day to check it wasn’t a fluke. By the third visit I decided I could quite happily move in.
