Lunchtime Reviews

We don’t just do evening meals! Recently we have put up some lunch menu reviews for some of the places we have visited during the evening as well. Mr Quality visited Saucy Burger for the first time, and The Cook returned to Man v Food and The Purple Bear. Were they pleased or all full of gristle? Read on brave […]

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The Star System

So, how do we do these reviews? I wish I could say there was a scientific, peer-reviewed method of doing it but there isn’t. We just shoot from the stomach and rate the restaurant on the things we like about meat. We do have a rudimentary star system  Five Stars – this is the meat you want to eat!  Four […]

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The Next ‘Meating’?

Suggestions for the next Meating are open. Obvious candidates include: Longhorns (Newcastle or Jesmond) The Hop and Cleaver Man vs Food (Tyne Dock or Heaton) The Meat House, North Shields Bierrex Smoke and Tap House, Newcastle Are we missing anyone? Are there meatings to be had in Sunderland? South Shields? The wooly wilds of Northumberland?

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Welcome… to ‘Meat, Please!’

In a world of smoked meats, how do you know your quality smoking house from your get-rich-quick bandwagon jumper? Enter the brave reviewers of Meat, Please! Our mission – to hold a ‘meating’ at each and every BBQ meathouse in the North East and give our honest reviews on them. Some of us like to dabble in the kitchen making […]

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