A Tynemouth tea room and guest house could be able to serve its customers alcohol if its booze bid is approved by the council.
Tynemouth 61 on Front Street, has applied to North Tyneside Council for a licence to supply alcohol for consumption on the premises every day between 10.30am and 8pm.
The premises is a "long-established" seven-bedroom Georgian guest house that includes a tea room and garden which are open to the general public to enjoy refreshments.
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The tea room doubles up as a breakfast room for guests staying at the property and only opens after breakfast service has finished.
An application form said: "Similarly, as our main business is a guest house, the tea room would not be open beyond early evening."
The business said that it would continue as a tea room, but wanted to be able to offer customers alcohol alongside food.
It said: "Our intention is to continue trading as a tea room but we would like to complement our offering with a premises licence. This would allow us to serve bottles of prosecco or champagne, a glass of wine or a gin and tonic with our afternoon teas and bottles of beer or ales alongside our food offerings.
"In the winter months we would anticipate serving hot chocolate with Baileys or similar and mulled wine."
Tynemouth 61 plans to continue as a tea room and said that it doesn't want to detract from being a family friendly destination.
The form added: " We do not anticipate being a place to visit for drinks only as there are plenty of other establishments in the area offering this and we do not want to detract from the main focus of the business as a traditional family-friendly tea room."
North Tyneside Council's licensing department has yet to decide on the application.
