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The Restaurant Guide for Wine Lovers

The French Quarter

83/100
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
  • French bistro and wine bar
  • By the glass
  • Mid-range
  • Beta
  • Assessed July 2026
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These are confidence labels. They show how sure we are that what we publish still reflects the restaurant's current practice. They are not a judgement on the restaurant; the wine and cooking are scored separately, out of 100.

  • Beta means assessed and scored, but we are still confirming some details (such as the current wine list) and the restaurant has not yet had the chance to correct any factual inaccuracy, so it is published with that caveat.
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We assessed The French Quarter in July 2026 and this review is based on the food menu and wine list at the time of the review. As menus and wine lists change, we name styles in order for the information to remain more useful as menus change. If things have slipped you can use the Vinealto Dining app including accessing an up to date reading using 'At the Table' from the wine list in front of you in the restaurant. How we assess

The French Quarter is a French bistro in a Newcastle railway arch where an all-French wine list, poured generously by the glass, the carafe and the flight, is as much the point as the cooking. The wine programme earns its standing on that openness and on genuine curation (organic and natural growers, an orange wine, a grower Champagne, a proper sweet-and-fortified close) with only printed per-dish pairings and a world beyond France missing, neither of them its aim. It will most reward the drinker who wants to explore French wine by the glass, guided by a list that makes exploring easy.

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