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The Restaurant Guide for Wine Lovers

Dobson and Parnell

82/100
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England
  • Elevated modern British
  • By the glass
  • mid-range
  • Beta
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Dobson and Parnell is an ambitious modern-British dining room on Newcastle's Quayside where a spice- and season-driven kitchen meets one of the more serious wine lists in the city. The wine programme achieves genuine mutual elevation — the hardest plates, from smoked cod's roe to BBQ mackerel, are answered fluently by the glass, and a curated range of classics and characterful outsiders rewards a drinker who wants to explore. It will most reward the curious wine lover who takes the pairing flight or trusts the list to lead beyond the familiar.

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