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Bar Crawl Newcastle: Upmarket/Posh/Trendy Bars

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This is a bar crawl idea if you want to go to more upmarket/trendy bars in Newcastle. It will suit you if:

You like to spend money
You are young-mature age 21-35
You like House Music/Ambiant music
You like drinking cocktails, or more high end drinks
You dress to impress

Is this you? Then read on….

Bars you will go to:

Destination (2 drinks)
Tokyo (1 drink)
Revolution (2 drinks + shots)
Madame Koo (1 drink)
Baby Lynch (1 drink)
Floritas (1 drink)
Perdu (1 drink)
Tup Tup Palace (many drinks)
Total Drinks: 9+
Total Cost: £50-£60+ (not including club entry fee or club drinks)

The bars you will be going to are all in the same area, the central station area. Dress code is smart casual. First bar is Destination, which is next to the station hotel. If its early enough you can take advantage of their happy hour, where you can get 2for1, free drink, half price or full price by pressing the button when you get your drink. This bar can get packed at times, there are 2 bars inside with seating, aswell as many TVs and an outside area for people who smoke.

When leaving turn right and follow the road round the bend and you will get to Tokyo. This bar might be hard to miss, at it looks like a little door and nothing more, and is on its own. Get yourself a cocktail once inside, you can chill downstairs or upstairs in this place.

When leaving turn left cross the road and head back up to the bar on the corner which is Revolution, it is hard to miss. Here you can enjoy a cocktail, have one of many different kinds of vodka drinks, or get you and your mates a rack of shots, which i highly reccommend. If you are going with a few people a Jug (pitcher) of something is a must; i advise Absolut Chambles (Vodka, Champagne, Redbull). Rev is an amazing bar because of its decor, yet again its a very popular bar, and the music is House.

From leaving there turn left and walk down the street which is Collingwood street, aka “The Diamond Strip“. There are a few bars in a row here, which are Floritas, Madame Koo, Baby Lynch. Go to all of them. Whats better than bars directly next door to each other?! Get yourself a cocktail in each or some wine, or beer if you prefer.

When you exit any of these places turn left and carry on down the road to Perdu. Unfortunatly there can be long queues here, but if you can stand a 10-15 minute wait you can go in here. You can get more cocktails, long drinks or whatever you fancy here. If you are drunk enough you can dance to the commercial pop/rnb music, or chill in a booth if there is one available.

If you want to head to a club at this point there is Tup Tup Palace, which is on the opposite side of the road, further down. Another choice would be Tiger Tiger at the gate. If your not ready for a club you can keep walking down Collingwood street and go to bars Bijoux, Grund Floor @ The Attic or no.1 Grey Street

Baby Lynch sort out your drinks!

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Baby Lynch is an upmarket trendy style of bar, on the diamond strip. You can go there an enjoy a whole host of drinks, draught beer, bottled beer, wine, cocktails, and so on….Being the kind of bar it is they sell some high end drinks, including Dom perignon, Cristal, Grey Goose Vodka, which is nice, but they have the lowest of the low to compliment it.

WHY DONT YOU SELL REAL RED BULL!!! It pisses me off so much when you go to a bar and ask for a vodka redbull and they sell you it when its clearly not Redbull. If they say “well its the same” then why not sell the genuine thing? They charge the same price, but i can assure you their “energy drink” is not the same price at wholesale.

The majority of bars which dont give you the real stuff dont even tell you, they give you it and thats that.  I have to say, some bars DO have signs which read “The energy drink we sell is….” which is exactly what they should, or if you ask simply tell you we dont do redbull we only do a generic energy drink….If i go and ask for a pint of Estrella Damm they wouldnt sell me Fosters, so why do it with Redbull.

It DOES make a difference. It DOES taste different. I am the customer, if i ask for a drink i want that drink, not something i didnt ask for.

Baby Lynch also are yet another one of those bars which sell Sol instead of Corona. Why?! If you have a bar which is billed as upmarket i would make sure every last detail of the place was exactly that, from the alcohol to the mixers.

Busy night big queues and police in Newcastle

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Newcastle was probably the busiest its been this year last night, considering its the middle of the month and the weather didnt help matters either since it was raining most of the day and in drabs on the night.

The bars had queues! Even bars which dont normally have queues, such as Destination, were packed. The standard queues for the diamond strip bars especially early on, Perdu, Floritas and Revolution all had pretty big queues outside so i thought better of going to them at that point of the night.

I did go into Revolution, where some fucking muppet spilled more or less a whole pint down the back of my jeans, what a dickhead. He actually said “i’m sorry there’s not much else i can say”. What a cock. I used my I Heart Vodka card and got 12 shots and a jug of Absolut Chambles which only came to £22. Not bad for 6 glasses of drink and 12 shots :)

Baby Lynch was pretty quiet early on, and the latest entry to the diamond strip, Madame Koo was open for a pre-opening kind of thing. Unfortunatly the place looked like a building site outside, why have a pre-opening like that? They should of kept the place closed till it was ready, but maybe they are just testing the water or something.

Blue down the quayside is now closed. This might just be for refurbishments, but it was not open and looked like it was getting a makeover or the place may be gone for good.

There was also police everwhere. There was apparently some trouble after the Newcastle game. Police were dotted all over the town outside bars, subway etc.

Another Bar For The “Diamond Strip”

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According to the Facebook pages of Floritas and Baby Lynch, there will be a new bar opening…

Date for opening is supposed to be Friday 29th May; with free drinks 7 – 8pm.

Will this be something different? Do we need another bar in the diamond strip? We’ll have to wait and see what this has to offer.

Answers on a postcard for the name of the place….Or just write a comment

Has NE1 got money for going out?

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Its bad times for the bars in Newcastle’s NE1, with hardly anyone going out anymore. Bars are definatly much quieter than ever before, its just a matter of time before we must see some closures.

The Sports Bar has already gone, currently nothing has opened there yet. We have seen the opening of Linekers Bar aka the old box aka 55 Degrees North.

On Friday night i was in the bars The Lodge, The Vault, Baby Lynch, Clear Bar and all were quieter than ever. Clear Bar was empty. We were the only people in the bar at 20:30 on a Friday night…People just dont seem to be going out. The Lodge and The Vault are 2 bars which used to see a fair few people, but both were pretty empty in comparison to only a year ago, The Lodge entire upstairs was closed and the ground floor was not packed by any strech of the imagination.

Which bar will be the next to go?