Fakeaway recipes in Newcastle

Newcastle is Greggs' home city — the bakery chain started in Gosforth in 1939 and is now a North East institution. The Greggs sausage roll, steak bake, yum yum, and bean and cheese melt are all Newcastle staples. A Greggs-on-every-corner density that's hard to match elsewhere.

Stottie cake is the local bread — a flat, round loaf with a cross on the bottom, used for stottie (bread sandwiches) with ham, pease pudding, eggs, or whatever's available. Every bakery in Newcastle does stottie cake.

For curry, Newcastle has a smaller scene than Manchester or Glasgow but still strong — particularly on Clayton Street and Westgate Road. The Stotti Spice and Baburchi are local favourites. Saltwell, and Mumtaz are also well-known.

Pease pudding (the local equivalent of mushy peas) is the side dish — yellow split peas cooked with onion, served with ham or as a chippy side.

For chains: Greggs, McDonald's, KFC, Subway, Nando's. Pizza Hut and Domino's. The local favourite is the Greggs vegan sausage roll, sold in its largest quantities in Newcastle.