Eco-zealots demanding end to non-vegan food stage sit-in at Michelin-starred restaurant in Newcastle

Eco-zealots have staged a sit-in at a Michelin Star restaurant tonight demanding an end to all non-vegan food – spoiling long-held Christmas dinner plans for dozens of local diners. 

Nine members from Animal Rebellion took up seats in the £130-a-head House Of Tides in Newcastle, which the eco-mob said ‘refuses to cater to vegans’. 

The eco-warriors have warned it is not the only restaurant they will occupy on their ‘national day of action’, threatening similar scenes in Birmingham, London and cities ‘across England’. 

It comes after protesters staged similar action in Salt Bae’s famous Knightsbridge restaurant Nusr-Et earlier this month.

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Nine members from Animal Rebellion took up seats in the £130-a-head House Of Tides in Newcastle (protest pictured), which the eco-mob said ‘refuses to cater to vegans’

In pictures shared from House of Tides this evening, Animal Rebellion supporters can be seen occupying reserved tables while holding ‘mock menus’ which contain the group’s demands.      

A video shows an employee apparently on the phone to police, as he asks: ‘Can you send someone to remove them please?’ 

MailOnline has contacted Northumbria Police and the restaurant for comment.  

Robert Gordon, 26, a former animal care assistant, said: ‘This action is the first of multiple high-end restaurant sit-ins that will be happening across England this evening. We are targeting these venues in sustained action as they are symbolic of a broken system.

‘Households in the North-East have the lowest disposable income when compared to other regions in the UK. Yet ‘House of Tides’ continues to profit off a wealthy minority by serving meat, dairy, and fish at the expense of our natural world.

Eco-zealots have staged a sit-in at Michelin Star restaurant House of Tides (pictured) tonight demanding an end to all non-vegan food 

‘Instead, luxury restaurants like these should be leading by example and transitioning to serving sustainable, plant-based foods. A plant-based food system could eliminate the suffering of the one billion farmed animals, and many more fish, killed in the UK each year. 

‘This would also free-up space for crucial rewilding to draw-down carbon from the atmosphere and restore our countryside, coasts, and precious wildlife’.

The same eco-mob targeted Gordon Ramsay’s 3 Michelin Star Restaurant in Chelsea two weeks ago, with a similar protest resulting in the restaurant closing for the night. 

A later action at a Michelin-star restaurant in Manchester ended in the arrest of 14 protestors. 

The group says it will only stop the disruption to high-end restaurants when the Government ‘takes meaningful action to prevent climate breakdown and animal suffering.’ 

Animal Rebellion is urging ‘wholesale governmental and societal support for farmers and fishing communities to transition to a plant-based food system and programme of rewilding that will secure a future for generations to come.’

A study last year found meat alone accounts for nearly 60% of all greenhouse gases from food production, with beef and lamb some of the worst polluters.