The Knowhere Guide

Eating and Drinking in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear*

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear Pubs, Cafes, Coffee Shops and Restaurants

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Food

  • I also found Puccinis to be very poor-poor food-terrible service. Avoid it. Raj Tandoori down Pudding Chare off the Bigg Market does nice cheap curries, and for once has some decent bottled beer to go with it. All the chinese places in Stowell Street are top notch but a lot more expensive than the curry houses-except the £5 to £10 all you can eat ones which are good value.
  • greasy spoon cafe on grainger street. lovely sandwich shop as you enter green market on the far left outdoor entrance on ground floor.
  • Rumpolis on the Quayside. Class pizzas 5-7 quid a pop
  • Get Stuffed, St. Mary's place. A haunt form my student days.
  • Check out HOTBOX near haymarket - on the path to Northumbria Uni - can be hard to spot as it is downstairs and small but worth checking out the lush range of food they do at student friendly staff. Northumbria students tend to reside here, so if you dont like poly students and yr from Newcastle make sure you dont get swamped by all the fake rah's that hang here. Def worth checking out tho. If your in Jesmond check out Will's coffeeshop - with lots on offer at reasonable prices, get there if you can
  • Lau's in Chinatown. Great buffet, very cheap.
  • Rendezvous Cafe at Whitley Beach is well nice - a bit of a time warp here but the owners are very nice and there's loads of tracks and tarmac around
  • pani's on highbridge. energetic, busy, fun Italian. Perfect for a spot of lunch
  • china town
  • up stairs at the monument mall
  • Italians on Grey street all of them and china town.
  • GAY
  • urm.... China town and the gate are absolutely great for food. Franky and Bennys just of Northumberland Street nearer to Haymarket is great for pizza, and take away food; Marxi's (M+S!) Fenwicks, on Franky and Tonies (take away bake potatoes and such like for lunch hour (also just of Northumberland Street nearer to Haymarket!)
  • try Puccinis in Pudding Chare, its under new owners and management, so maybe a better meal this time around, dont wait anther 15 years!
  • JUNK FOOD PARADISE
  • Puccini near the Bigg market, friendly good service and great prices, now being run by the owners/managers. No problems with service, best to book as very busy!
  • Made in Italy in Gosforth High St closed and is calles pizzaazz or something similar. looks just like pizza express, which is next door.
  • All you can eat buffets from china town! Loads of happy hour italian restaurants near the quayside chargin about £3 for a giant pizza - UNOs springs to mind
  • Is there anywhere safe to eat in Newcastle.
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  • New restaurant is definitely worth a try - Blackfriars Cafe Bar (www.blackfriarscafebar.co.uk) serves great wraps and cappucinos and is a superb restaurant by night. Say Bobby Robson there the other day so it must be good. Play live jazz there every Sunday.
  • had probably the most disappoiting meal in 15 years last night at Puccinis, near the bigg market last night. the service was slow, the starter never came and when the main meal arrived, instead of giving us whilst it was hot it was paraded around the restauurant to appear 10 mins later somewhat cooler. and when i later commented politely on the poor food service was told that the fauult lay woth me as they had an excellent reputation. I urge anybody to vote with their feet or should we expect poor and rude service
  • Y'all should try dim-sum at Mangos onStowell street. They do it every day up to 5pm. Just ask to try what the next table is eating and you'll fast learn. The menus don't help as much, but ask for the CHINESE menu, not the big shiny English one which is not adventurous. DIMSUMS are cheap as well.
  • mal maison, gotta be worth a vist down by the riverside, but save the pennies first.
  • linos opera is on Market Street and is the most lush italian dish i have eva tasted. quaint and cosy setting its really reasonable and i would recomend it 2 any1.
  • check out pizza bella pasta on the quayside, but make sure u go into the back room and you will find yourself sitting eating within the leg of the bridge...in a kindof cavern! the food's good too..if u like italian.
  • Boskoops on Old Eldon Square.
  • Macdonalds has always been my favourite fast food takeaway and there are plenty of them dotted around every corner.
  • Panni's is spelt wrong - it's Pani's. Their web site is www.pani.net Cafe Procope no longer exists...
  • Made in Italy is on gosforth High street.The food is farely cheep and the quality and quonity is farely good too Est Est Est is a brilliant resturant.It serves Italian food and with the friendlyness of the staff, u find it easy to sit back and soak up the atmospher F
  • A definite must on a trip to Newcastle is a visit to Panni's on High Bridge Street(opposite the Bacchus Pub).A family run Italian restaurant with a lunch and evening menu and regularly changing specials. The food is excellent, inexpensive but top quality. The staff are dead friendly and always keen to indulge in a bit of banter!!! They've just opened a deli next door as well and the olives are fab!
  • Chinatown is in Stowell Street (North-West of City & handy for St James's Park). There must be at least a dozen Chinese Restaurants.
  • We have everything, a great China town, mongolian, 'pretentious'(cafe procope), bog standard. There are more Italian resteraunts per square mile than in Italy (maybe) For fusion, go to Barn Again near St. James' Park (up the toon!) it's pricy but mind blowing.
  • Smashing curry house: The Komal on Stanhope St in the West End. Like a cafe, formica tables, no licence take your own booze no corkage. Cheap and the curry is superlative, far better that the fancy dan city centre ones.
  • If you're feeling a bit peckish during the day, go to Samanthas sandwich bar in the Greenmarket. Good grub for little cash. You get a chip buttie, choccy biscuit, crisps and a can of Pepsi for £1.50. And you get some interesting conversation from the staff.
  • Wok This Way-chinese all-day buffet. Cheap food. Massive choice. Eat as much as you can. Good quality bait. Next to the Irish Club/Gallowgate bus station.
  • Blakes coffee shop is a must. They do heavenly sandwiches, amazing cakes, and hot chocolate with cream and marshmallows. A great place to rest after shopping in Eldon Square.
  • If you aren't into any of that posh food, and prefer to eat grease and lard in a sweaty environment surrounded by cheap blow up pictures of semi naked, ahem, ladies, then Breadcrumbs is your best bet. Having said that, trading standards probably closed it down yonks ago, so don't get your hopes up too high...
  • If you want some fine, but cheap tucker, head for The Cradlewell in Jesmond. A few too many Sloane students stop it from being a really class pub, but the food is legendary. Everything comes on steaming hot plates (they sizzle when you put your vinegar on) and the highlight is an all-day-breakfast at £1.50. If you're hungry, head for The Cradlewell.
  • Most places in Newcastle, pizza and pasta are 2.75 and there's so much choice. So check out. this web site with independent info about Newcastle's Italian restaurants
  • Undoubtably the best take away on the entire planet is "Munchies", just down from the Haymarket. It has the best and cheapest fodder in town. Watch out for the smooth bloke with the crown as he'll give you a yellow card if you're rowdy.
  • Greggs Bakers (take away) sells cheap pasties, sausage rolls etc. 14-15 Garinger Market, Newcastle.

Pubs

  • the elephant ashington..tidied up proper pub, mad landlady,staff lovely, good beer and cheep.lots of punks and hippies.
  • Tokyo on westgate road has anawesom roof terrace annd killer cocktails, Head Of Steam and The Forth are also really cool Hoxton type cool bars
  • Newcastle Arms off Stowell Street, plenty of cask ales for the enthusiast. Nice atmosphere now the new landlord has kicked all the divvies out
  • Mr Lynch is a cool new bar in Jesmond
  • Black Horse, Benton
  • Check out the head of Steam near central station for a grimy sortof pub with a lived in feeling - i swear i saw old sofsa there but i was off my face so it cound not have been. Good atmosphere and prices that you'll love
  • The Bodega on Westgate Road is great for real ale and hasn't been robbed of all identity by the Head of Steam lot...the fate that Tilleys met (it was decent until then).
  • The Forth near central station
  • The ‘Free Trade’ just off City Road and overlooking the Ouseburn looks appalling from the outside but don’t be deceived by its rough trade exterior! It provides a selection of exceptionally well kept ales and has the best view in town. If you enjoy a good pint and aren’t drawn to loud music this is the place to be!
  • The pubs around Central Station are great, I mean fab. Why not have a nosy! Kevin's 21st Birthday night on a Monday's at Quilted Camel Go to Osbournes during Happy Hour The Carriage pub, Jesmond with roaring open fire and mooses on wall!
  • GAY
  • Plenty of underage serving around the big market
  • Cant believe that no-one has mentioned the Free Trade!! Best beer in Newcastle - perfect view of the Tyne and Millennium Bridges...perfect!
  • ALL FULL OF POSH KIDS
  • the bigg market rocks for a nite out if ur unda 25 - but all the oldies packin into cage shud stay well out - wkd music belongs to the young, nobody ova 50 can possibly dance wel to christina aguilera, be faithful or whats your fantasy - it jus wudent b rite!
  • The Three Mile inn on Great North road is now a posh italian restaurant called SCALINIS
  • Trillians, Union bars (Reds @ Northumbria & top floor of Newcastle), Waterline on quayside at weekends
  • Dobsons, Dobsons and Dobsons again. 31 Newbridge Street - Near Ikon, Envy and the Blue Carpet. It just cannot be beaten on atmosphere and prices. FAB!
  • CUBA!!!!!
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  • the fire station.
  • Chase is ideal for starting off at down the Queyside before going clubbing, it's got a bit of class.
  • Arthur's Cooperage in the Close on Newcastle's Quayside celebrated its 100th anniversary on December 12th, 1953, and now it's 150th anniversary is due on December 12th 2003 (the building only not the work of making barrels). Nowadays the building is popular as one of the many pubs along the revamped Quayside
  • The TAP & SPILE ON SHIELDS ROAD IN BYKER AS BEEN KNOCKED DOWN TO MAKE WAY FOR A SAFEWAY SUPERSTORE.
  • Huxters, northumberland road. Fabulous everything staff, beer, food... the list is endless. also the best place to watch the match being a sports bar and all!
  • Wetherspoons jsut oppossite the central station is a great pub with plenty of cheap drinks and its so big theres always so many different people in there, only bad thing is that there are hardly any seats if its busy.
  • anywhere on the bigg market
  • bastards killed the broken doll ...........grrrrrrrr
  • Two of the best pubs in the town (and they are both completly opposite) are the Hancock with the big beer garden and cheap drinks if you are a student with a yellow card, and Genghis opposite the Lounge near Central Station. Nice and posh with great cocktails and nice white wine! Also the Tut and Shive before mayfair rock night at the Arena has a great jukebox, atmosphere and cheap prices to get you in the mood!
  • The ave in whitley bays always pretty heaving, full of some local characters.
  • the union room=cheap and nice. gotham town=lush cocktails and a scream when your half off ya face on a saturaday afternoon with a bunch of monkeys.
  • Jesmond drinking is pretty good...Osborne road gets a bit lively for my liking at the weekend, but u can't beat Osborne's happy hour through the week for a cheap and chilled night out. Try out the Trent house if u can findit....great music in the Haymarket end of town+ great music in Head of steam opposite Central Station. All classic and groovy sounding range of stuff....soul, r+b ska....whatever goes.
  • The Collingwood, hidden away in Brandling Village, is a cosy pub with friendly staff who know about beer (and who sell good stuff). I once sat next to 8 Ace in the Three Bulls Heads.
  • Dobsons on New Bridge Street is hard to beat for a good night out. Live DJs every night, bouncy 'party' music and excellent drinks specials that are hard to beat. At the time of writing (April 2001) Double Smirnoff Vodka Red Bull is two pounds 50p !! Compare this with over six quid in may other venues around the Town. Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights are best with Klub Ikon and Cuba Cuba in close proximity for clubbers looking for a pre club bar. DJ often has cut price flyers for local clubs. A top night out I always find.
  • The women in Newcastle are much more adventurous when it comes to trying out new bars which open in town, so these are invariably a good pick up spot for the few blokes who get in there early. But good news travels quick up here, so within a month the 'Ben Sherman' crowd will move in, and scare the ladies off! eg (Lizard) Lounge, Baja and now Sea may succumb to the Charver invasion. lets hope the doormen have more sense.
  • BARS??????????? Flynns cant be missed!!!!!!!!!is situated right on the front of the quayside.Theres alway a good crowd in.the atmospher is brilliant.Music is always excelent.Before you know it, your boppin roung with 1 of there slush cocktails...which knock your socks off!
  • You seemed to have completely missed out Benton - 3 good pubs in the space of a couple of hundred yards. Get off the metro at Four Lane Ends - Pub 1 - Benton Ale House - A bit rough around the edges but bloody good beer. Pub 2 - Black Bull - a John Barras pub with good selection of beers and canny food. Pub 3 - Casa Antonio bar looks like a mediterranean village, good sound system, quite quiet but dead cool, the restaurant upstairs is fantastic with really reasonable prices.
  • The Jubilee, contrary to what this site previously states is a cool little pub with an excellent pool table and cheap quality lager. The regulars are a bit on the old side but quite frendly, and as I've lived in Fawdon most of my life I can tell you that the guy who got murdered in coxlodge was murdered outside the Coxlodge pub not the Jubilee.
  • Crown Posada, Side: one of the best pubs in Britain; beautiful Victorian architecture; superb beer. If you've no mates and want to read the paper in peace, try the Playhouse Bar (expensive, though, and iffy service)
  • The Forth Hotel - never any trouble and a great mix of people.
  • Can't believe you missed off the greatestpub in town, how can anyone forget about Old Orleans.
  • Two of the best pubs centrally are the Head of Steam (Neville St) & the Union Rooms (Wetherspoons pub in Westgate Rd which has been converted from a Gentleman's Club). Cross the road from Central Station, turn right, & the Head of Steam is on your left, followed by the Union Rooms (at the major road junction).
  • The best pub in Newcastle is the BlackBull in Blaydon, a true local, which every Friday has a very fresh faced crowd, and sometines (usually) the barman forgets to clear everyone out before he locks the doors, we soon put him rigth though ;-)
  • See 'Viv - and the Geordie Mafia (vol 2) ISBN: 1-902578-01-5
  • Go to Dobsons on New Bridge St West. Its a little bit out of the way of the other places but its a good atmosphere. Its got cool decor, good music and they have two big screens for live football. I go there most lunchtimes and spend a lot of my evenings there too. Ikon is just down the road if you want to continue your night out. And the barstaff are gorgeous. No charvers allowed.
  • YOU DIDN'T MENTION THE LEAZES INN ON BARRACK ROAD. IT'S LOVELY, FRIENDLY, AND IT'S MY LOCAL.
  • The tanners in Byker is now the most now pub in town. They have installed a big sound system and Dj's play every night. Wed. Reggae weekends more up tempo sundays, best chill spot in town etc. Esp. note Kirsten the livliest bermaid ever, etc.
  • The worst pint of Caffrey's record must go to the Newcastle University Union Bar - the contents of my car's radiator made more pleasant drinking
  • Gosforth: Earl Grey recently refurbished, now more of a student bar. Brandling Arms has had a major refurbishment and extension during the summer and is a much better place to enjoy a drink with your mates.
  • Inventions no longer exists it is called Bar Oz. As can be gathered by the name it is an Australian theme pub
  • Strawberry Pub..avoid on a Footy day but generally good local for town dwellers.. from Spital Tongues, Leazes, students halls, Arthurs Hill...good, across the board mixture, because it is so near to St James' (football ground) it gets tourists and visiting business types too.
  • I have been to the Brandling Villa and its a lovely, unpretentious local with cosy booths and disgusting green plastic upholstery.
  • Inventions is not called Bar Oz
  • How could PAcific be forgotten? It's really a bit of a restaurant/pub/bar/club etc... but it's my favourite in Newcastle. Gazza goes there quite often.
  • Inventions in the Haymarket has been re-done and re-named Bar Oz.
  • Gosforth (suburb of Newcastle)-
    • High Street:
      • County - full of middle-aged toffs mainly.
      • Brandling Arms - lads' pub. Full of boy racers.
      • Earl Grey - nice, cosy, "couples" pub. Looks like your dining room without the cats.
      • Blacksmith's Arms - nice fighting pub. Some nice skinheads in here and they don't come from Gosforth.
      • Queen Victoria - before they did it out it was a wino's pub. Now they've done it out it's a wino's pub...
      • Gosforth Hotel - my favourite High Street pub, recently done out with stupid writing on the walls though. Nice arcade golf machine, real ales in the back room. Chris Donald, Viz editor, conceived some of his characters in here in the late 70s.
    • Also Gosforth
      • Three Mile Inn (Great North Road.) - huge cavernous place, attracts all manner of nutters from all over the city at weekends. Telescopic knives have been seen in here on a Sunday night. Alright mid-week though.
      • Royal George (Princes Road, Brunton Park) - ha ha ha ha. Full of oldies.
      • Border Minstrel (Gosforth Park) - near the racecourse, good place to erode your winnings.
      • Brandling Villa (bottom of Station Road, corner with Haddricks Mill Road) - don't know, never been in. Looks shit.
      • Victory (Salters Lane, not ot be confused with Salters Road) - really old pub. Looks like the County inside cos it's the same brewery.
      • Millstone (Haddricks Mill Road) - I like this pub although hiking back up the bank to central Gosforth after ten pints is an "experience".
      • Collingwood (Wansbeck Road) - usually friendly though some fights when the nutters from the nice council estates nearby get in.
      • Jubilee (Jubilee Road) - don't even think about it. Coxlodge (Kenton Road) - someone got shot dead here a couple of years ago, two nice men from Benwell were responsible. What were they doing in here, Benwell is miles away?
      • Northumbrian Piper (Belsay Gardens) - nice, quiet pub. You can hear a pin drop in here, although why are you taking pins into pubs you nutcase?
  • Jesmond (suburb)-
    • Carriage (next to Jesmond Metro, can't remember the street name) - very nice, safe pub set in an old railway station. Expensive though.
    • Brandling Villa (quite near the Metro) - popular and loud with bouncers on the door at weekends to keep the "rabble" from infecting the Jesmond Jet Set.
    • Duke of Wellington (next to Brandling Villa) - the antithesis of the above, very quiet and dull.
  • Callerton Parkway (miles from anywhere) Wheatsheaf - big, expensive pub just off the Metro. Gets busy at weekends. The local population up here must live in the nearby trees or something. They don't actually, but it sounds good. They live in huge houses with mile-long drives. Yup, it's Newcastle's Beverly Hills.
  • Kinsgton Park (suburb)- King's Court (Brunton Lane) - next to Tesco's so you can have a pint after your shopping. Although your bags will probably be stolen by the crowd of fat 30 year-olds from Newbiggin Hall that gets in here.
  • Byker (suburb)-
    • Tap & Spile (Shields Road)- on oasis of sanity in the middle of the asylum-esque Shields Road. Nice beers, can be dodgy walking along Shields Road at night though. Don't go into the other pubs such as the Raby. You might not come out again.
    • Tyne (on the riverfront) - studenty pub miles from any students! What a bunch of clots!
    • Tanners (Byker Bridge area) - standard pub, some fights.
    • Cumberland Arms (Byker Buildings) - this pub has story-telling nights! Take your teddy....actually, don't - he might get stabbed.
  • Walkergate (suburb)- Railway (Benfield Road, 30 secs. off the Metro) - has gigs, standard pub, standard aggro...
  • West End - Going into to a pub in the West End would be to induce the grim reaper's return. The only exceptions are the Prince of Wales and the Fox and Hounds. I'll give £100 to anyone who can have a pint in the Balmoral on a Friday night and live to tell the tale. £200 if anyone does the same in the Mill Inn at the top of Mill Lane, Elswick.
  • Head Of Steam, opposite the station is cool too.
  • Tilleys, on Westgate Road: real ale/ student kind of place.
  • Fine pubs on the east end of the Quayside... Flynns. Good free music. Trebles with mixer for £2.50. Full of all manner of student talent on Monday neet. Fog and Firkin. Good music. Tends toward the crusty side of the street. Free trade. Belting music. Frequented by artsy types in the 30yrs+ agegroup. Worth the patter for the jukebox. The Egypt Cottage. More of the same. Fine real ales if you like that sort of thing. Strange sort of club thing upstairs when they can be bothered.
  • Trillians - Heavy metal pub. Popular on Friday and Saturday nights before rock nights at the Mayfair.
  • I think you really ought to know that contrary to what your guide says, there hasn't been a pub called the "Haymarket" in Newcastle since 1987. The bikers' replacement pub is "The Percy Arms" near the sight where the Haymarket used to be (now a car park).
  • The good thing about the bars is that there is something for everyone. Dollies and "the lads" can gaan doon the Bigg Market; mature lads and lasses and champagne Charlies are better off down the Quayside (Marthas, Hanrahans, Jimmy's); rockers ought to go to the Haymarket and students frequent the quayside (Offshore) and the Haymarket (and really ought to try Diva's club). Bierrex (by the Civic Centre) is a nice daytime bar (especially in summertime).
  • Best of all has to be the Belle Grove. This is true local pub with a few students mixed in, giving it a sad but homely atmosphere. Good beer as well.
  • Dirty Nellies and Scruffy Murphys Irish Bars
    Dirty Nellies is now O'Neills.
  • Madisons & Mayfair Clubs
  • Newcastle Uni & Poly for Club nights (Bulletproof etc) Planet Earth Club
  • Hotspur
  • Percy Arms (Metalers Boozer)
  • The Three Bulls Head is pretty smart (good beer).
  • Strawberry (Near St James' Park)
  • Inventions, Haymarket. Another start point for pub crawls, as it too is between the two universities. A large pub that offers a resonable selection of beers.
  • Luckies, Haymarket. A resonable selection of beers, shows Sky sports all the time. A good meeting place for a night out, full of students as right between the two Universities.
  • The Archer, Jesmond. Live bands at weekends, excellent range of ales, bloody good pint of Caffery's and a large number of pool tables.
  • Chillingham Arms, Heaton, Big student pub, variety of beers, but worst pint of Caffery's in Newcastle.
  • Queens Arms near to Warner Multiplex. Excellent range of traditional Ales and various bottled beers, a semi-student pub frequented by locals and some students from near by halls, also only spitting distance from my flat.

Cafes and Coffee Shops

  • you choice in wallsend, station road is lovely
  • Almonds and Raisins for not very cheap veggie food
  • china town eat all you can buffets mmm
  • thortons cafe, starbucks
  • Starbucks.
  • GAY
  • Starbucks iz always a gd coffee shop.
  • Blakes! (Small studental cafe v popular through out the week, cheap food and coffee, couldn't beat the prices! Down the road from the Theatre Royal!!) Coffee Trader!
  • "COOL" STARBUCKS
  • too many, you would think that the students ran the place with them sitting in their little coffee shops finishing off their assignments...please.
  • Thorntons without a doubt and Blakes for the biggest hot choclates ever with marshmallows(very nice.)
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  • La Toscana is a rather posh and expensive Italian..BUT if you drop in for lunch downstairs they make a cheap and filling wild mushroom risotto WHICH IS TO DIE FOR! Yummy coffee. We from the local hospital[rvi] regularly walk across at the end of the day and have yummy coffee, and a dishy waiter to boot.
  • How about JT's just opposite Munchies and beside the Hyena cafe at the Haymarket?! The best coffee and pizza at three o'clock in the morning - just make sure you're served by the little Armenian chap!
  • Too many to list, too many to imagine, whatever your style, you'll find it. Try the Jazz Cafe on Pink Lane, £3 to get in on a thursday night for which you get pound a drink, a table with a lamp, great live jazz and burger and chips (included in the price).
  • theve just opened a costa in the city centre and apparantly we r getting a starbucks too. they r taking over i tell ya!!!

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What is Knowhere?

The Knowhere Guide started out as a list of places to skateboard in the UK. It is a compilation of (unedited) information and views supplied by users like yourself. It is not a conventional tourist guide!

In most cases, the information in each section has been submitted by more than one contributor (the credits at the bottom of the page list some, but not all, of the contributors) and some of it dates back to the 1970s.

We make no claims as to the accuracy of the information in the Guide - our only purpose is to provide a forum for users to share their knowledge and opinions. So please keep a large bag of salt handy and be prepared to read between the lines!

If you disagree with a comment, or information is out of date, please submit an update! The contributors come from all walks of life, and their opinions are bound to be subjective, so if your view isn't represented, please speak up and contribute to the balance of the Guide. See below in the 'Have Your Say' section for how to add your voice.

If we have helped you out or made you laugh you can buy us a pint.


Have Your Say...

The Knowhere Guide depends entirely on real users for information. Please feel free to join in.

You can tell us more about Newcastle-upon-Tyne. This is also the method to use if you want to correct some of the information already here. (But please remember you're not mailing the person who actually wrote whatever-it-is.)

You can use the add an event form to tell us about events happening in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Or, if you'd just like to leave a message for other users of this site, take a look at The Knowhere Board (handy if you're just trying to get in touch with someone).


Credits

All the information in the Knowhere Guide has been contributed by users over the years. No one person is responsible for it all and not all contributors will agree with all the opinions included.

Parts of this information have been supplied by: Paul Mullis, Simon Johnson, Cerys Thomas, D.Pearsons, Sean Keeble, J Thomson, Michael, Death, Gareth Cooper, Garry Self, Wayne Morrison, P.G.Sorsby, David Williams, Andrew Medlycott, Paul Fellows, Paul Hawkins, Greg Spellman, Peter White, Peter Falkous, G,Ian Gregg,Steve O'Malley,Vicky Wiseman,Sarah Dalrymple,Dr. Thomas Spence,Robbie H,Siobhan Gould,Anni & Raphaela,Cameron Smith,Daisy,Rich Dytch,Anthony McAndrew,Micky,Mark Read,Alli Fletcher,Ben Pollinger,stuart Johnson,Dave,frederico sanchez,dani,Dave Murton,davemurton,Stan Hardwick,Henry Partridge,Kevin Bell,craig simpson,michael bates,Charlotte,cassagnas,charlie richardson,Ashley,Kevin Wilson,sw,Whirligig Web Design,Ciaran Hansen,Jen,John Phillips,Az,Simon Park,Tom Burton,Claire,Tim Hills,John Griffiths,pussicat,Nicky,Alice,Jane Imrie,lau-lou,Mal Douglas,sian,Troll,Spud,Gill,stig,wryghta,Mark Galsworthy,jenny gibson,chris cruise,Steph,Tim Jones,kelly,gogs,sam,Caroline,kelvin bell,Kevin Coulthard,Muarice Sutherst,neil,sarah,Louise H,Mallory B,hobo,Shaun lowton,Kellie Law,nah,rod d raw,Jonathan Miles,later,shell,Laura,Michael Innes,Steve Fishwick,((=*=>Chanty<=*=)),kevin,Pete,Chris Davison,francesca w,Adam Armstrong,twat,andy,douggy,james,Nic,Wee Bob,gapsta,john doherty,Dave W,paul,sas,Anomonous,John Kiely,l kirkham,Mr scouse in HBridge,doug,mary,glen,willyhed,Joe,FRANK BATESON,paul morris,Hefner,Julian Gluck,Chris,PAUL B,Anna Gibson,kevin-mallette,macca,morris,lauren,jay,Helen Mossop,Rebecca Worthington,david young,Barry Cox,Joanne,Barry McGuigan,scotty,owen bell,stu,Noel Robson,Lozza,Bridget,Carly Mather,Vicki,Geoff,Sam Jones,Nick,freddie,lou and gary,Reed,Chloe,tom conway,Jenni,josh,SMW,aaron,Gaynor,Admin,tony eastlake,JLH

Last updated: 2008-02-23


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