In the latest of what have been regular trips to Newcastle, chef Gino D'Acampo was keen to celebrate the first year of business for his city restaurant which he says is his best and busiest to date.
The TV regular was back at INNSiDE hotel on Newcastle Quayside to mark the birthday of the restaurant which bears his name and to meet fans at one of the special meal events that are always fast sell-outs. Before the evening arrivals, who snapped up tickets to enjoy a meal in Gino's company, he summed up his first year of business here, saying: "I could not wish for a better result."
And as he's been getting to grips, during his visits, with the Geordie accent - which he already had experience of, thanks to time spent with Ant and Dec during his winning appearance on I'm A Celebrity - he said: "Since day one that I opened, it has been my busiest restaurant - I was really kind of shocked that it has done so well." While the pandemic was a "nightmare" for the industry in general and the reopening then saw recruitment problems, the first year here, he said, has been great.
