Peace & Loaf

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217 Jesmond Road 
Newcastle upon Tyne 
NE2 1LA 

0191 281 5222 
www.peaceandloaf.co.uk 

It’s all change for Newcastle’s fine dining scene. Recently I reported that Kenny Atkinson’s House of Tides has abandoned his tasting-menu-only policy, and introduced a Market Menu option for lunch and dinner. Now I can reveal that two Newcastle restaurants are adding tasting menus to their offerings. 

In March Artisan introduces a seven-course “nose to tail” menu for just £37.50 per person while, later this month, former Masterchef runner-up Dave Coulson adds a tasting menu for his loyal and enthusiastic clientele at Jesmond’s Peace & Loaf. So loyal are Coulson’s customers, that their votes gave it my Journal Readers’ award in 2014. 

It deserves its success. When I first visited, shortly after its opening in November 2013, I gave it five stars, complimenting its modern, complex cooking, ambition and charm. Not resting on laurels, Dave Coulson tweeted that he wasn’t ungrateful, but he hoped that in due course he’d earn a sixth. 

Peace & Loaf

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217 Jesmond Road 

Newcastle upon Tyne 

NE2 1LA 

0191 281 5222 

 www.peaceandloaf.co.uk 

Mon-Sat 

12-2.30pm 

5.30-9.30pm 

 Accessibility: No 

I’ve been moaning on for ages about the lack of fine dining places in the North East. Then, like a number 13 bus, three turn up at once. 

On Newcastle’s Quayside the extractor fans are already being installed in Michelin-starry Kenny Atkinson’s kitchen ready for his new restaurant House of Tides, while down on North Shields fish quay, former Masterchef finalist John Calton has just opened the doors on his first solo venture, The Staith House. 

Calton’s recent tweets suggest this former fishermen’s boozer is not quite ready for a visit. However on Monday I received a message from the other 2010 Masterchef: The Professionals losing finalist, Dave Coulson, that his new restaurant in Jesmond is finally fully operational. After a couple of weeks of soft evening openings, he was ready for the Secret Diner.