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41-45 High Bridge
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 1EW
0191 340 5137
www.ptmy-newcastle.co.uk
Of all the places I had expected David Kennedy to resurface, Ladhar Leisure’s Pleased To Meet You was the least likely.
The chef’s name has been erased from the doors of his restaurants at the Biscuit Factory, Vallum Farm and River Café on North Shields’ Fish Quay. I half expected Kennedy would re-emerge to launch some tie-in project with superstar veg-grower Ken Holland, perhaps at a destination site in Northumberland. They are the pioneers of grow and eat local in our region.
But no: here he is instead in the newly extended restaurant section of one of the first bars in Newcastle that sussed out how lucrative gin and craft beer could be when set against a backdrop of exposed brick and air duct.
