North East's best local restaurants revealed by the Good Food Guide

These prestigious culinary awards celebrate all that British dining has to offer and independent restaurants from Scotland to Cornwall, Norfolk to North Wales.

While the Good Food Guide’s North East area covers much of Yorkshire, three sites from Tyneside have been included within the guide’s list of the best local restaurants across the wider region.

The first of these is Newcastle’s Long Friday. Based on Jarrow’s Brentwood Avenue. From the team behind popular eatery Cook House in Ouseburn, the site is described as “a firm local favourite.”

The guide continues: “People love the laid-back intimacy, the enthusiastic staff, and the carefully sourced ingredients – as well as the on-trend ethos of a place to drink good wine and enjoy a couple of flavourful bites too, which is so much more relaxed than a formal three-course menu with accompanying bottle.”

Not far from the first site is Ophelia, a short walk from South Gosforth Metro station.

Described as “a classy neighbourhood bistro,” the site is well loved by the guide, which reads: “Personable staff who care about what they are doing help matters no end, as do the swinging cocktails that are now a de rigueur element of a night out.”

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The final of the three sites in the giude is The Small Canteen, just off Sandyford Road between the city centre and Heaton.

“It may be small, with just four tables and a counter across the window of an unprepossessing building, but the Small Canteen has a big heart” explains the guide.

“The concise menu is squashed and smudged onto a blackboard in Sam Betts’ ever-so-slightly chaotic ship, which is run with immense verve and generosity.”

All three sites made it into the guide’s top 100 local restaurants nationally.