q General/News – I Love Belle and Herbs http://blog.ilovebelleandherbs.co.uk Dedicated to the gastronomic decadence of Newcastle's most wonderful cafe! Sun, 14 Feb 2010 11:22:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.25 Sad Demise of Belle & Herbs http://blog.ilovebelleandherbs.co.uk/2010/02/sad-demise-of-belle-herbs/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://blog.ilovebelleandherbs.co.uk/2010/02/sad-demise-of-belle-herbs/#comments Sun, 14 Feb 2010 11:22:43 +0000 http://blog.ilovebelleandherbs.co.uk/?p=98 Those of you who live in Heaton know that Belle & Herbs sadly closed just before New Year. There have been a large number of rumours kicking around as to what happened, everything from regular financial difficulties to some sort of coup by an investor, taking the business from the original founder.

Whatever has happened, we’re gutted. Though we’d been accused of losing interest in B&H, in reality we had just covered the menu* (which is what we originally set out to do) and we continued to go there very regularly, enjoying our favourite meals.

The location itself is reopening under a new name, but the level of vitriol and unprofessionalism** on the Facebook page frankly makes us want to avoid rather than try it out. It also seems the new cafe doesn’t have the involvement of the original founder of B&H, who over the past 5 years was a big part of the Belle & Herbs experience for us, so we’re a little doubtful that the food will be as innovative, or the atmosphere as good, as once was.

Either way, seems Belle & Herbs is truly gone — we’ll have to find a new place to lure visitors from far & wide to Newcastle with…

* The astute amongst you will realise that we hadn’t covered all the veggie meals. Given we’re not vegetarian we figured most of our reviews would be “would be nicer with real bacon” which isn’t exactly the sort of review anyone wants to read so we accepted defeat on that front.

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Later Openings

Originally uploaded by meriwilliams.

Starting today, Belle and Herbs is going to be open for longer. Until 8pm to be precise and from 6pm it’s “bring your own booze”.

We’re about to go and have our first supper there, will let you know what the evening menu is like!

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Our Site is on the New Menu!!!!
Originally uploaded by meriwilliams.

This is so cool — we arrived at Belle and Herbs on Saturday afternoon to find that they’d changed the menu … and that this blog is listed on it!!

But I digress…

Although we had come fairly close to achieving our original aim of documenting the entire menu, the goalposts have now been moved. There are a lot of new things on the new menu. Everything from variations on existing items (like the new Bury Benedict) through to whole new items, like the selection of wraps that we haven’t even tried yet.

All I can say is, I’m looking forward to attacking the new and improved menu and documenting it all here!

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