Bianco
Riverside
Restaurant
Modern European cooking and craft cocktails on the banks of the Wear — in a riverside room that's been serving Sunderland since 1724.
BIANCO RIVERSIDE
Best seat on the river
Our enclosed riverside restaurant looks straight out over the Wear, with the Wearmouth Bridge on one side and the mouth of the river on the other. Glass all the way round, warm inside whatever the weather — and the same view the Glass Centre gets of us.
Our Story
A riverside room with a long memory
Bianco Riverside is the third home of the Bianco family — after Washington and Sunderland — and the first to sit right on the water. The building has stood on High Street East since the early 1700s, when this stretch of Sunderland's East End was all glassmakers, shipwrights and ships' chandlers.
We've kept the brick, the beams and the arches, and added a glass terrace over the Wear. The kitchen is modern European with Italian roots: North Sea fish, Durham beef, handmade pasta, and a wine list that leans south.
Est. 1724 — on the banks of the Wear
Reservations
Book a table by the water
Tell us when you'd like to come and we'll confirm by email. For parties of ten or more, or full private hire, drop us a note below and we'll reach back to you.
Gallery
The restaurant, the river, the plates
Stay The Night
Rooms above the water
Eight rooms sit on the floors above the restaurant, run with our sister property the Boar's Head Boutique Hotel. Sash windows, deep baths, and the river the last thing you see before the lights go out. Dinner, bed and breakfast packages available every night of the week.
- Eight en-suite rooms
- Breakfast in the bar
- Fast Wi-Fi throughout
Find Us
Come down to the river
Phone
07300 450133Opening hours
- Monday – Saturday
- 12:00 – 21:00
- Sunday
- 12:00 – 20:00