Cafe Bangla

Cafe Bangla at St Bedes in East Boldon brings Indian and Bangladeshi cooking to the village with a menu that merges Pakistani and Hindu traditions with occasional Mediterranean touches. The chef developed the approach after years as head chef in Inverness, and the results show in a menu with greater creativity than most neighbourhood Indian takeaways. Reviewers describe the boneless marinated chicken as a particular highlight, and the cooking is consistently praised as fresh and faultless.