Asda Gateshead Supercentre

You've traipsed around the Metro Centre for three hours and your feet are screaming. That's when you remember the supermarket café exists, tucked away in the Asda Supercentre like some kind of retail oasis. The tables might be plastic and the lighting fluorescent, but there's something oddly comforting about settling in with a proper mug of tea and watching other shoppers shuffle past with their overflowing trolleys. The menu's exactly what you'd expect - jacket potatoes the size of your head, full English breakfasts that don't mess about, and sandwiches that do the job without any pretension. It's not winning any awards, but when you need feeding and caffeinating between shopping marathons, it delivers exactly what's promised on the laminated menu.