This page is dedicated to showing the location of some of the places to stop for food and drink that we have discovered over the years. The Wearside Family cycle Group have stopped at several of these venue, the ones we have stopped at we would certainly use again.

Index to Food/Drink Venues in the map above

1)Café Bungalow, Roker – end of C2C/W2W & on NCN1/Bedes way. Upper Promenade; 2) Snow Goose,  Roker Marina. – end of C2C/W2W & on NCN1 ; 3)Throwing Stones , The National Glass Centre – not too bike friendly – end of C2C/W2W & on NCN1; 4) Morrisons , Seaburn – on NCN1 / Bedes Way; 5)Roker Volunteer Life Brigade, near to Bungalow Café Roker, lovely coal fire in Winter – end of C2C/W2W & on NCN1/Bedes way. Road up to Upper Promenade; 6) Whitburn Café on Front Street opposite the Jolly Sailor –on NCN1/Bedes way; 7) The Old Orleans , Hylton Riverside beside Staples – on C2C; 8) Tea Rooms at Browns Nursery , Penshaw monument. Near to Herrington Country Park ;
9) Sainsburys , Silksworth ; 10) Puma Centre Silksworth; 11) Silksworth Ski Slope -  Snack bar ; 12) McDonalds Roker Retail Park at the Wheatsheaf – near to end of C2C/W2W & NCN1/Bedes way; 13) McDonalds Wessington Way near the new Evans Halshaw garage/Wickes – near to C2C; 14) McDonalds High Street in the City Centre opposite Marks & Spencer – on W2W & NCN1; 15) McDonalds Peel Retail Park, Washington – near to C2C; 16) Burger King Adjacent to Sunderland Central Railway Station – near to W2W & NCN1; 32) McDonalds Ryhope Road near the Toll Bar – near to NCN1; 33) McDonalds Farringdon near the Silksworth Ski Slope – near the W2W.



Index to Food/Drink Venues in the map above

17) Minchella's in the car park at Whitburn, beside Latimers Garage –on NCN1/Bedes way; 18) Souter Lighthouse  - good café - Can't readily watch bikes –on NCN1/ Bedes way; 19) Souter Lighthouse at a caravan park (half mile inland) –on NCN1/ Bedes way; 20) South Shields Promenade  -Minchellas on Seafront- Can watch bikes from inside or outside–on NCN1/ Bedes way; 21) Fish and chip café at Southern End of South Shields Fun Fair. Outside  picnic benches to watch your bike–on NCN1/ Bedes way; 22) Bede’s World, Jarrow. Old house in the grounds with a restaurant /cafe. Bikes can be safely left round the back of the building –on Bedes way.



Index to Food/Drink Venues in the map above

23) Washington Waterfowl Park – invite to C2C cyclists; 24) Dobbies Garden Centre, Birtley, near to C2C - Watch bikes through glass – near to C2C.

Penshaw monument is quite often taken to be the site that the Lambton Worm rapped itself around in the Folk Song "The Lambton Worm". Whereas the true hill was "Worm Hill" which can be found behind The Havelock public house beside the North bank of the River Wear at Fatfield.



Index to Food/Drink Venues in the map above

25) Richardsons Garden centre, Cold Hesleden. Cycle friendly, can watch bikes if you can get a window seat – near to NCN1; 26) Pit Stop Café, Karting North East – on W2W; 27) Morrisons, Doxford Park; 28) Ryhope Engine Museum (open on Bank Holidays); 29) Seaham Hall Car Park – Opposite Seaham Hall – near to NCN1; 30) Rainton  Meadows – near to W2W; 31) Leaf Bark and Berries, Seaham Seafront, opposite old Police station – near to NCN1

 

Other venues for food and drink - but not on the maps for Wearside

Cafe at Finchale Abbey ; Bill Quay City Farm -  Can sit outside to watch bikes or feed the animals – near to Keelmans way; The Vennel Café , Durham City - You can sit outside under infra-red heaters and canopy and watch your bik -. Near to the W2W; Café beside Browns Boat House, Durham City Riverside - on the W2W; Centre for Life , Times Square , Newcastle upon Tyne. Sit inside and watch bikes through the glass;

Parkhead Station on the C2C above Stanhope – on C2C; The Baltic, Gateshead Millenium Bridge. Bikes can be locked on cycle stands and viewed from the cafe – near to Keelmans Way



Updated April 2008

by Dave Willcock