The Merchants Tavern

LOVE this place. Lovely location, fantastic food and fabulous staff/service ! You must try the Christmas cocktails.

Nice friendly great food great service atmosphere great to very nice place for food drink great thank you for a nice time

Visited a few times and felt I’d like to leave a positive review as appreciation of fine food, good drinks, great staff in a fantastic location. View menu

Sunday lunch menu was fairly standard but the food was excellent and plentiful. Service was great both at the table and at the bar. If I have a gripe, and it's a very minor one, I hate mismatched cutlery.

Nice place shame about the managers attitude towards customers she shouldn't be in the job if she's got no customer skills I think whoever is her manager should send her for some retraining or maybe a personality transplant

Just had Sunday lunch at the Merchants. It was absolutely delicious. So tasty and well presented.Everything was cooked to perfection. Best Sunday lunch I have ever tasted. Staff are lovely, so friendly and attentive. I would highly recommend. View menu

Really cool place in a great location. The staff were friendly and the food is really reasonably priced which always helps. There were some bones in the fish but it was fine. The chips are delicious. Seem to have lots of events as well which is great!

Went for Sunday dinner had it in mind to have 3 courses until we saw the size of the dinners. We both decided to go straight for the dinner I had the pork and oh had the beef both come on a bed of mash about 8 roast potatoes a massive Yorkshire pud and 3 bits of meat with stuffing. A portion of cauliflower cheese to share and 2 massive portions of veg. The pork was too die for as was the beef just too much food to finish. 1 of the best dinners we have had for years. Staff really good without being intrusive We will certainly be back

We had a stop here one afternoon after a brief walk along the Tyne. We didn’t order food but had drinks and sat outside. Nice views of the canal if sat outside. Inside looked reasonable too with various sitting places. The tables outside were super wobbly though. We spent about an hour here. Unfortunately my partner then left his Prada glasses on the seat and we didn’t realise until later when the pub had closed. We rung the pub the following day with very little expectations but we were pleasantly surprised! They had picked up the glasses! My partner was so grateful he offered a tip but this was politely declined. Altruism isn’t dead. View menu