The Settle Down Cafe

Coffees: Cappuccino, Milk Steamers, Baby-ccinos, Mochaccino, Espresso, Latte
Food: Homemade Pizza, Soup, Sandwiches, Vegie Salads, Cakes
Where: Thornton Street

The Settle Down Café offers arguably one of Newcastle Upon Tyne’s most chilled out and friendly café experiences and is situated in an area densely populated by great independent establishments.

Within 100 yards of the settle down is a variety of independent bars restaurants and cafes, including Tilly’s pub, a local gem, making the area a hotspot for Newcastle’s more switched on crowd.

The café, which particularly seems to attract the city’s cool, 20-something parent’s comes with a relaxed reggae and hip hop soundtrack, offers a variety of fair trade and organic food and drink and is more than accommodating for children.

The décor of the café is perfectly in line with this, with posters for local independent art and music events and artwork by local and aspiring artists sitting alongside pictures drawn by the many children who visit the café.

The inside of the Settle Down manages to tread the line between being relaxing and welcoming whilst avoiding the now clichéd patchy sofas and impractically low tables which populate many chain coffee shops seeking to ape the independent’s.

Instead, the Settle Down has opted for long wooden benches and wooden chairs, with a generous seating area outside for when the sun decides to grace Newcastle with its presence.

The food on offer at the Settle Down is a particular highlight, a selection of homemade organic food including soup sandwiches and pizza’s which change daily.

If you are in search of a very relaxed atmosphere, homecooked food and friendly staff and clientele in the heart of one of Newcastle’s coolest setting’s, get yourself along to the Settle Down.

Callum Mcglade

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