The Observer
Jay Rayner worried about pongs this week, issuing a general apology to
fellow travellers on the train home from Newcastle for the smells issuing from the takeaway cartons he resorted to after massively over-ordering at a
“Vietnamese-inspired café tucked into the end of a shopping parade just
outside Whitley Bay”.
Omni Café was recommended to Jay by readers – “I can see why,” he says:
“the food is cracking”. Chef Corrie Thomas and her husband Lou spent years living in Vietnam and travelling around southeast Asia, and have re-created the food they discovered there, to serve in a “faux beach shack of a dining room”.
“I went to Omni for the beef and peanut curry; I stayed for everything else,”
Jay writes, listing spice-dusted shrimp crackers and sweet-sour pickled
vegetables among his favourites.
