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69 Grey Street
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 6EF
0191 261 5300
www.osakanewcastle.co.uk
11am to 11pm daily
Does Newcastle Council hate city centre restaurants? Grey Street is now packed full of eateries, but its parking meters cost £2.40 for a maximum of one hour only. So lunchtime diners must either rush their meals, or face a parking fine. Every modern city now has meters with hours extendable by phone. Newcastle should wake up and smell the extractor fans: don’t expect to have a thriving restaurant trade without looking after the customers.
The newest addition to Grey Street is Osaka. At last, a Japanese restaurant in the very centre of town.
Well, almost. My idea of a Japanese restaurant may not tally with yours. You may like plastic dishes going round for hours on a conveyor belt; you may like trying to throw raw eggs into your hat while a teppanyaki chef grills poor quality ingredients in oily butter. Newcastle has several of those.
