The owner of The Patricia restaurant in Jesmond is this week launching a sister venue in Gosforth as part of a new hospitality partnership with a successful entrepreneur.
Nick Grieves first opened The Patricia in December 2016 having returned to the region to launching his own business, fresh from working in a number of Michelin-starred restaurants in London. The restaurant has won praise from his the region’s foodies, his peers and food critics alike, with The Guardian describing it as “a little belter”.
Two years ago Nick set plans in motion to open a second eaterie, with plans to turn the vacant M Steel Cycles shop into a restaurant. Now those ambitions have come to fruition, through the opening of new neighbourhood French bistro Ophelia – and the restaurant is set to be the first of a number of regional venues as it marks the first to open through a new partnership between Nick and technology entrepreneur Dan Smyth.
