Blackfriars

overview

The complex includes a 90-seat restaurant, believed to be the oldest purpose-built restaurant in the UK; a 50-seat magnificent medieval Banquet Hall; a Parlour Bar – Newcastle’s oldest bar, seating 30 people; a 14-seat Cookery School; a 36-seat Tasting room where you can enjoy wine, whisky and beer tastings and a 40-seat Dormitory meeting room with break out area – all rooms overlook a beautiful enclosed Cloister garden in the centre of Newcastle.

The award-winning restaurant, Voted Taste of the North East by the North East England Tourism Team, serves classic but gutsy traditional British food using local and seasonal ingredients, often straight from the farm. The Banquet Hall was originally the celebrated venue used by King Edward III for receiving royal Scot, Edward Balliol, in 1334.

Car parking available at the Gate complex next door - £7.20 Per Day