Another new batch of Beer Guide pubs in Newcastle, which only needs to add a fast hovercraft service to Bergen and a Vietnamese café or two to get in the same league as Manchester. Last year was all about a clutch of new Uber-Craft places, including two microbrew places lumped into a confusing new “Quayside”… Continue reading NEWCASTLE COMPLETE
Tag: Tyne & Wear
JULIA JACKLIN & PUB CATS IN THE OUSEBURN VALLEY
Among plenty of reasons to visit Newcastle, I count some of our best live music venues, craftiest (?) pubs and proper graffiti art. The Free Trade has two of those qualities, and a legendary free jukebox. Much more importantly, it also has a quite wonderful pub cat, clearly a favourite of the FT’s resident bog artists. I hadn’t been… Continue reading JULIA JACKLIN & PUB CATS IN THE OUSEBURN VALLEY
A JARROW GEM
My laptop just expired on me so I’m on my way back home to get Mrs RM to tell me off for breaking it. So a very quick post on my mobile phone so Dave and Dick don’t think Im dead. Deaf, yes. I’ve been in Newcastle finishing GBG entries for Tyne and Wear, and… Continue reading A JARROW GEM