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High Bridge Street
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 1EN
0191 261 8000
www.hiboublanc.co.uk
Accessibility? Yes
Gluten free? Yes
On the evening that it was announced that Donald Trump would face impeachment proceedings, following the afternoon that the Supreme Court had found that our Prime Minister had given the Queen unlawful advice, Mrs Diner and I sat in a restaurant in the Bigg Market, peering at a menu offering caviar for ninety quid a tin. Caviar in the Bigg Market? Sure, why not! Nowadays anything goes.
But while much else in the world seems grimly off-kilter and out of whack, this in fact turned out to be a meal full of comfort and reassurance, of things done mostly very well and occasionally brilliantly.
