Anyone who has been at a loose end on a Sunday and is within walking or driving distance of Newcastle will have spent a lazy afternoon at the Quayside Market.
Some will visit for gifts and curious nik-naks from independent retailers, but many will go for the food, with the square behind the Guildhall being dedicated to local street food vendors. The line-up changes every week, but work your way round and you could be eating Katsu curry from Tokyo Kitchen one minute, then loaded Mac 'n' Cheese from Redheads, or tackling an enormous gyros wrap from Acropolis.
The list of mouth-watering street food options is seemingly endless and that's likely the reason that the market has been named one of the best food markets to visit this summer by travel magazine National Geographic. Spanning from close to the Millennium Bridge all the way to the Swing Bridge, records of the market date as far back as 1736 when it was first a fair.
