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Stephanie Fox: Newcastle, Travel and Lifestyle

A North East blog run by a 30-something, social media manager and travel lover based in Newcastle Upon Tyne. Expect inspiration for days out, dog friendly adventures, UK breaks, European getaways and more. Passionate about good food, beautiful hotels and travel photography.

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May in Newcastle and the North East! ☀️ Some

May in Newcastle and the North East! ☀️

Some inspiration for the month 🗓️

Whenever I share these I’m always told what I’ve forgot. I can’t share everything in one reel but if you want to add anything you think I’ve missed (not kids events though pls I beg you 🙏🏼) or are running an event feel free to add 👇🏼

#newcastle #newcastleupontyne #mykindoftoon #newcastlegateshead #newcastlelife #newcastlelifestyle #northeastengland #your_northeastuk #livingnorth #igersnewcastle #lovenewcastle #ne1 #streetphotography #nebloggers #onlynewcastle #tyneandwear #newcastlevisuals

April highlights! I didn’t have the best start

April highlights!

I didn’t have the best start to the month with that horrible rib injury and never ending cough but it definitely improved!

🐚 Cornwall a huge highlight
🌸 Alnwick garden cherry blossom
🍷 lunch at Daylesford
🐾 pottering about and beach trips with my boy
🍽️ some really amazing restaurant invites with great new menus

I’m still not 100% but I’m only getting busier and May is about to start with a much needed girls weekend 🥂

Thanks for following as always x

#april #spring #cornwall #newcastle #cherryblossom #newcastleupontyne

Gaucho Brunch Newcastle! ad| Finally the famous G

Gaucho Brunch Newcastle!

ad| Finally the famous Gaucho brunch has arrived in Newcastle, and it’s like no others 🥩

For £65 per person your Gaucho brunch lasts for two hours and includes:

🍷 up to 8 drinks per person from a selection of cocktails that were definitely not watered down
- house red, white or rosé, the red was lovely with our mains
- lager
- mocktails (non alcoholic brunch is £50pp)

🇦🇷 Unlimited starters including the Argentine sausage plate, beef or sweet potato empanada, burrata with tomato’s and avocado on sourdough, superstraccia salad

🥩 a main course from a choice of steak and eggs, brunch burger, churasco de quadril steak or spaghetti romesco with chips or salad

🍨 chocolate brownie or mango and coconut dessert

It was excellent and worth the price for drinks alone, really good quality cocktails, wine and food👌🏼

Let’s face it many ‘bottomless brunches’ are all about the flowing prosecco and not really about the food, but the Gaucho brunch is all about the whole experience - Latin music and Argentine tango dancers providing entertainment while you get stuck in.

Available on one Saturday per month the next one is 25th May - what a great way to spend bank holiday Saturday

#gaucho #gauchobrunch #brunchnewcastle #newcastle #newcastleupontyne #newcastlefood #newcastleeats

Tipi at the Tempus ☀️ The Tipi opened in the

Tipi at the Tempus ☀️

The Tipi opened in the grounds of @thetempus_charltonhall on Saturday night - yes that’s actual sunshine for the occasion too 🕶️

A great addition for a more casual dining option, the tipi has a bar inside with plenty of seating, a fire pit for any cooler evenings, and a pizza van outside serving up a good selection of pizzas to order on the go 🍕

Family and dog friendly, they’ll be open from 4-9pm every Friday and Saturday from now, and there will be live music too.

It will also be handy for anyone staying at @blossom_plantation just across the field

#thetempus #charltonhall #summertipi #tipi #pizzavan #northumberland #visitnorthumberland #northumberland_uk #northeast #northeastengland

🗓️ Tynemouth Food Festival is just two weeks

🗓️ Tynemouth Food Festival is just two weeks away!

ad| @tynemouthfoodfest returns to Tynemouth Priory on 11th and 12th May from 10-5pm and there’s some great local vendors going to be there.

It’s always a really popular events so getting tickets in advance guarantees your entry and you have the flexibility to use on either day:

🎟️ £4 adults (plus booking fee), under 15s go free, entry to the Priory is usually more than this so it’s also a good opportunity to enjoy one of our English Heritage coastal landmarks
🐾 Dogs on leads are welcome but won’t be allowed in the marquees

I’ll share the booking link in my story

I’ll be there will you?! Praying for ☀️🍦

#tynemouthfoodfestival #tynemouth #tynemouthpriory #tynemouthvillage #foodfestival #northtyneside #northeasteats #englishheritage

Don’t go to Ginos if you’re looking for a typi

Don’t go to Ginos if you’re looking for a typical standard Italian to have the same dish you have at every Italian restaurant ❌

Ad | Ginos is for LOADS of flavour, trying something new, looking beyond the margarita pizza or carbonara and having so much choice you need a few more minutes to decide, while feeling like you’re somewhere far from Newcastle if it wasn’t for the bridge view to remind you.

That’s how I feel there anyway, always a favourite of mine and the menu additions for this summer are good - and there’s a lot of them!

The lighter nights make it a perfect spot to make a night of it, with a cocktail in the bar and a bottle of Bardolino at the table - my favourite from the rosé wine tasting we did here last summer.

We then both had the ragu arancini which were mouth watering, and then I had the prawn ravioli and beth had the fettuccine with king prawns that I must return to have soon. We finished off with the chocolate fondant and three scoop gelato 🍧 All of it was faultless I thoroughly enjoyed.

As always I could have chosen multiple things for each course, and the new additions are marked which is very helpful. The bruschetta starters are always amazing, but here’s some of the new dishes that caught my eye on the menu:

Tuscan style ribs have me reminiscing of Florence
Risotto primavera
Spaghetti with lobster
Salmon with garlic and butter sauce - all very tempting for evening dishes and then perhaps for a long lazy lunch I’d go for either the peppered tuna steak or the Italian style cheeseburger.

In case you can’t tell Ginos is one of my favourite Italians and we had a lovely evening and good catch up over great food. I’d really encourage you to try something new if you visit 🇮🇹

#ginos #italianfood #bardolino #summermenu #newcastle #newcastleupontyne #prawnpasta #newcastlefood #northeasteats

Golden hour over Spanish City last night 🌅 #su

Golden hour over Spanish City last night 🌅

#sunset #spanishcity #whitleybay #whitleybayseafront #northtyneside #djidrone #djimini3pro #yourcoasts

The thing about Newcastle is…🖤 #newcastle #n

The thing about Newcastle is…🖤

#newcastle #newcastleupontyneuk #newcastleupontyne #newcastlegateshead #mykindoftoon #tynebridge #newcastlequayside

New-ness at Pleased to Meet You! 🍸 Both the co

New-ness at Pleased to Meet You! 🍸

Both the cocktail and the food menu at @ptmynewcastle have had a change for spring/summer and I was invited on Monday to try it out (ad)

The cocktails are always made well here and I really enjoyed the Mary Phillips with Edinburgh gin, and raspberry, apricot and grapefruit flavours - very summery 🍑

Other cocktails - PTMY no 1, mango and chilli margarita, and I’m livid at myself for not ordering the raspberry and coconut or the vanilla espresso martini as both looked amazing 🍸

Food wise another lovely curated seasonal menu, that you could enjoy as a nice meal out or some of the starters would be good for sharers in their outside booths when it eventually warms up:

Starters included - pea and mint arancini 👌🏼, ham hock terrine, spiced hummus and apple and fennel salad. The terrine and arancini would be my go to again!

Mains - lamb of course with shallot, asparagus and carrot puree, pan seared salmon with crushed new potatoes and veg, chicken with veg and a lovely lamb madras.

It all tasted beautiful but the salmon and potatoes really were beaut 🤤

Cocktails at PTMY are 2 for £12 Sunday - Friday between 5-9pm

#ptmy #springmenu #newcastle #newcastleupontyne #newcastlefood #newcastlefoodies #newcastleeats #northeastfood #springcocktails #cocktailbar

A spring morning in Durham 🌷🛶☕️⛪️ #

A spring morning in Durham 🌷🛶☕️⛪️

#durham #durhamcity #durhamcathedral #durhamuk #countydurham #spring #springtime #livingnorth #northeast #northeastuk

I’ve been writing some of my Cornwall blogs over

I’ve been writing some of my Cornwall blogs over the last few days, so thought I’d share one of my favourite snaps from the trip.

An aggressive ice cream and chip stealing seagulls view of Mevagissey from the drone 🚁

#mevagissey #mevagisseycornwall #cornwall #cornwallcoast #lovecornwall #cornwallphotography #harbour #harbourtown #dji #djidrones #djimini3pro #dronephotography #droneoftheday #birdseyeview

Cullercoats fisherman’s cottages My favourite

Cullercoats fisherman’s cottages

My favourite street to detour down walking along the seafront 🌸

#cullercoats #cherryblossom #spring #fishermanscottage #northtyneside #northeastuk #whitleybay

New menu at the Mal! Newcastle @malmaisonhotels (

New menu at the Mal!

Newcastle @malmaisonhotels (ad) invited me to try their new menu last week, four courses including nibbles, starters, mains and desserts

I love a padron pepper, but the warm battered olives really did it for me before we even got started, they really shouldn’t be good but they just were 🫒

Tomato carpaccio and buffalo chicken wings were the choice of starters - wings had a good kick and the tomato was very fresh. A ‘springy’ choice 🍅

Steak mains were flat iron with fries and New York strip, served with a selection of sauces (truthfully these could have been a touch warmer) but they were catering for a lot of people, and long stem broccoli to go with it. I’d order both again but think the New York strip just edged it, cooked to a perfect pink 🥩

Im not usually a dessert person but that baked cookie dough had the entire table impressed, a solid 10 for that.

A menu with multiple choices I could choose from, and you can’t beat a quality meal with a view which you undoubtedly get from the Newcastle Mal restaurant

#malmaison #malmaisonnewcastle #springmenu #newcastle #newcastlequayside #newcastleupontyneuk #northeastfood #northeasteats #newcastleeats

I love when my Sunday mornings look like this…

I love when my Sunday mornings look like this…

☕️ 🌊 🌅 🐾

#tynemouth #tynemouthbeach #tynemouthlongsands #coastlife #northtyneside #sunday #sundaymorning #sunrise

An in the moment post for a change, Durham was bea

An in the moment post for a change, Durham was beaut today ☀️

#durham #visitdurham #durhamcathedral #durhamcity #countydurham #northeast #livingnorth #dji #djimini3pro #dronephotography

…they’re just too good 👌🏼 One of my fav

…they’re just too good 👌🏼

One of my favourite treats in Newcastle and I hadn’t been since they gave the warehouse a facelift it’s looking cute. I get so impatient waiting to get up to the window to see what’s in stock 😂

Aprils menu has some corkers, I always love the simple jam filled sugar, but this month they also have banana and hazelnut, vanilla custard and brownie fudge, and at weekends the Doughnut Bostock with blackcurrant jam and almond fragipane. Can confirm it was a solid 10.

Im not done, I also got ten of the doughnut holes dipped in cinnamon sugar and for such a small simple thing they were truly heaven in your mouth. I can’t stop thinking about them.

For anyone who doesn’t know @provengoodsco are at Hoults Yard open Thurs - Sun 10-3pm 🍩

See you in the queue!

#doughnuts #houltsyard #newcastle #newcastleupontyne #northeastfood #newcastlefood #newcastleeats #northeasteats #northeastfood #newcastlelife #newcastlefoodies

Cornish luxury at Cider Barn! This was my fabulou

Cornish luxury at Cider Barn!

This was my fabulous holiday cottage for the first half of my week in Cornwall with @aspects_holidays (ad)

It was absolutely ideal in so many ways especially for someone who hadn’t been to Cornwall before, and is exactly the sort of place I’d have chosen for myself and Arthur. Here’s why 👇🏼

🏠 an entire place full of character, the barn has been renovated to such a high standard but kept those high ceilings, wooden beams, cute exterior and ladder up to the loft bedroom
🖥️ high spec tech, wifi, tv, sonos speakers but all subtly hidden so if you want a switch off digital detox you could
🐾 dog friendly, with a little welcome hamper for arthur and the enclosed garden was ideal
🌳 the garden had seating area, bbq, washing line and was fully gated
🛁 I loved the peacock blue bathroom and that huge copper tub, all towels and robes provided
🛌 2 adults - the comfiest loft bedroom, accessible by a ladder
🔥 log burner for cosy nights in

🌊 it was just 5 miles from the nearest coastal town of Port Isaac, and even closer where little villages of Chapel Amble and St Kew
🍻 many of the reviews said there were pubs within walking distance but I was out exploring and had specific restaurants I wanted to try in Port Isaac so didn’t get to them this time

For my first ever visit to Cornwall I literally packed the kitchen sink and this place was just perfect to rock up to after a long journey to both relax and explore a new place. You have to take so much for a British staycation as god knows what weather you get and Cider Barn was a unique home away from home that still had that luxury unique and boutique element I always love 👌🏼

#cornwall #aspectsholidays #visitcornwall #cornishcoast #portisaac #luxurycottage #convertedbarn #boutiquestay #uktravel #ukstaycation #ukstays #dogfriendlytravel

NEW in Whitley Bay 🍸 The Library 📚🍻 - a

NEW in Whitley Bay 🍸

The Library 📚🍻 - a bar/pub at the top of South Parade serving local beers, cocktails, wine and Tynemouth coffee.

It has an outdoor space with seating - don’t worry they provide blankets for those chilly Whitley Bay breezy days, and lots of both bar and lounge style seating inside.

Dog friendly, and all the art work on the walls some of which is very locally focused is for sale 🖼️

Is South Parade finally making a comeback???? A lot of memories down that street 😂 and this is a canny new addition to that end of Whitley Bay.

📍 @thelibrarywb

#whitleybay #southparade #whitleybaylocal #newbar #cocktails #pub #beergarden #northtyneside #dogfriendly #yourcoast #coastallife #northeastcoast #northeastuk #livingnorth

Go on the lasses 💕 You might not like all of t

Go on the lasses 💕

You might not like all of them, but there’s something for everyone 🍸

#girlsnight #cocktailbars #newcastle #newcastleupontyne #newcastlebars #newcastlequayside #cocktails #bottomlessbrunch

IMO… @loborojoquay has been one of the best res

IMO…

@loborojoquay has been one of the best restaurants at the coast for ages and I was obsessed with their takeaways during lockdown.

I’m so pleased they’ve gone from strength to strength and opened more branches including the latest round the corner from me just off Park View in Whitley Bay @littlelobotaqueria

Their chorizo tacos are my absolute favourite 🤤🤤🤤 but those salted nachos were bloody good for an appetiser I’ve been thinking about them since.

🍸 margaritas 10
🌮 tacos 10
🇲🇽 service 10

🐾 dog friendly too

#mexicanfood #tacos #margaritas #whitleybay #whitleybayfood #northtyneside #newcastle #newcastlefood #northeastfood

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