Pubs in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear*

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• 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!
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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!
• 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
• 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.
• Inventions no longer exists it is called Bar Oz. As can be gathered by the name it is an Australian theme pub
• 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 in the Haymarket has been re-done and re-named Bar Oz.
• Inventions is not called Bar Oz
• 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.
• I have been to the Brandling Villa and its a lovely, unpretentious local with cosy booths and disgusting green plastic upholstery.
• Chillingham Arms, Heaton, Big student pub, variety of beers, but worst pint of Caffery's in Newcastle.
• The Archer, Jesmond. Live bands at weekends, excellent range of ales, bloody good pint of Caffery's and a large number of pool tables.
• 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.
• 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.
• Strawberry (Near St James' Park)
• The Three Bulls Head is pretty smart (good beer).
• Percy Arms (Metalers Boozer)
• Hotspur
• Newcastle Uni & Poly for Club nights (Bulletproof etc) Planet Earth Club
• Madisons & Mayfair Clubs
• Dirty Nellies and Scruffy Murphys Irish Bars
  Dirty Nellies is now O'Neills.
• 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.
• 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).
• 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).
• Trillians - Heavy metal pub. Popular on Friday and Saturday nights before rock nights at the Mayfair.
• 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.
• Tilleys, on Westgate Road: real ale/ student kind of place.
• Head Of Steam, opposite the station is cool too.
• 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.
• 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.

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