High Tide — Restaurant in North Tyneside

We have lived in Cullercoats for years and have no idea how we managed to miss coming to High Tide until this evening. The food was simply delicious! Every dish has distinct and complex flavours. We had a variety of the small plates. My husband wanted the chorizo with honey which I said sounded like something we could cook at home. This turned out to be my favourite dish! Chorizo done over an open coal - just spectacular. The homemade tomato chilli jam under the salt and chili prawns was almost as good as the prawns itself.

My husband's favourite was the gochujang chicken. Apparently (if I remember correctly) the Chef's partner is Korean and they make their own sauce. This, and the slow cooked beef curry had sufficient spice (even for us who lived in Asia for years). There was good wine, beer, and cocktails.

The menu is designed to cater very well for many tastes, so had our young daughter been with us she could have chosen from the array of delicious looking pizza and pasta dishes. We thought the whole meal was great value and will definitely be back.

You can go in just for drinks upstairs and it has an amazing view across Cullercoats Bay towards Tynemouth.

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We had been here before and Were so looking forward to going back but it was sooo disappointing the staff were under pressure right from the off and we genuinely felt it ...menu knowledge was practically non existant and it was only when we pushed a little the waitress went tothe kitchen to check what vegan options were available .we had some small plates to share which were nice but then the mains arrived and the starters plates etc hadnt been cleared so we'd to wait on cutlery etc I opted for the ariabiatta and to be honest eat very little as apart from being very spicy wasnt very nice the waiter when he cleared didn't ask was it ok ,nothing , but TBF the waiter was doing most of the work while the 3 girls chatted at the bar ...sorry Jo we so wanted to enjoy our 2nd visit as much as we all did 1st time round ..but think the only way it could have been improved is if youd have been there overseeing everything ...

Unfortunately there were virtually no vegan options. As the menu was nowhere to be found online we called in advance to ensure there were vegan options and we were told there were. Upon arriving and viewing the menu, it became apparent that the only vegan dishes were olives and pizza with no cheese. The staff were very nice and said that they would be able to improvise something which I agreed to, however in the end I was served a very basic vegetable tomato pasta dish. I was also charged as much as others who had ordered meaty pasta dishes from the menu which didn't really seem fair.

The restaurant was nice inside and the staff and servers seemed lovely, it was just a shame about the lack of vegan options. Tomato vegetable pasta is not really something I would go to a restaurant for and so I would say if you or someone in your party is vegan it might not be the...