
City Tavern
BarsNewcastle Upon Tyne
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About City Tavern
City Tavern occupies a Tudor-facade building on Northumberland Rd in Newcastle Upon Tyne, with interiors that keep bookshelves, chandeliers and exposed brickwork alongside the original woodwork. Breakfast and lunch menus run through the week, and Sunday brings a roast menu with beef and chicken options. The kitchen also sends out a giant Yorkshire pudding that spans a full dinner plate, alongside chicken skewers. TVs play in the background around the room, and dogs are welcome throughout the spacious seating area. An upstairs function space is available to hire, suited to private events and groups. The pub pairs its period frontage with this mix of everyday food service and larger gatherings, giving it a dual role as both a regular breakfast and lunch stop and a venue for booked-out functions upstairs.
Good to know
- ReservationsAccepts reservations
- ParkingPaid parking lot · Paid street parking · Usually somewhat difficult to find a space
- AccessibilityWheelchair: entrance, restroom
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Menu & Prices
114 dishes · mains £6–17- Full English£13.95
- Full Veggie£12.95
- Full Vegan£12.95
- Eggs Benedict£10.95
- Eggs Royale£11.95
- Eggs Hebridean£10.95
Reviews
What reviewers say
Reviewers most often mention sunday roast dinner, giant yorkshire pudding, chicken skewers and cocktails and beer selection.
What reviewers say
Reviewers most often mention sunday roast dinner, giant yorkshire pudding, chicken skewers and cocktails and beer selection.
Customer Review Summary
Most reviewers come for the drinks, praising a good selection of beer and cocktails in a friendly, lovely atmosphere where regulars end up chatting to strangers before gigs at the city hall. Private events sit close behind. One group describes a surprise birthday where the team helped organise arrival drinks and food timings and allowed their own decorations and music, and another hired the upstairs. Food earns praise from several diners, with one still dreaming of the chicken skewers. The main complaint comes from a former regular's Sunday lunch, where the beef was boiled rather than roasted, grey and more fat than meat, the gravy watery, the mash an odd grey and the chicken dry. That reviewer suggests eating elsewhere while still rating the beer and atmosphere. Others mention patchy service upstairs and too few chairs when busy. One happier diner warns that the giant Yorkshire pudding really does span a huge dinner plate.
Customer Review Summary
Most reviewers come for the drinks, praising a good selection of beer and cocktails in a friendly, lovely atmosphere where regulars end up chatting to strangers before gigs at the city hall. Private events sit close behind. One group describes a surprise birthday where the team helped organise arrival drinks and food timings and allowed their own decorations and music, and another hired the upstairs. Food earns praise from several diners, with one still dreaming of the chicken skewers. The main complaint comes from a former regular's Sunday lunch, where the beef was boiled rather than roasted, grey and more fat than meat, the gravy watery, the mash an odd grey and the chicken dry. That reviewer suggests eating elsewhere while still rating the beer and atmosphere. Others mention patchy service upstairs and too few chairs when busy. One happier diner warns that the giant Yorkshire pudding really does span a huge dinner plate.
Featured reviews
- Google user
“Cannot recommend enough. Dog friendly and very spacious inside (good for our big dog). Staff were incredibly welcoming and chatty, and the food was insane (I'll be dreaming of those Chicken skewers for weeks). Likely to be regulars after the first visit!”
- Google user
“Have a few drinks in here while passing. Staff are pleasant, and there’s a good selection of drinks. They have breakfast and lunch menus, though I have not tried the food yet. Tranquil background music and reruns of Laurel and Hardy on the TVs. There are private function areas to hire. Clean and tidy tavern.”
- Google user
“Do not give this place your any business, if you are British, as they don't want your custom they hate their own country men and women, they hate their own countries flag ,do not go their during England playing in world Cup you will not be welcome as they take offence to the English flag, or the union Jack or any of our countries flags ! We can no longer keep supporting business that hate us ,who support foreign countries over their who support foreigners over their own people..if you went in with an lgbtq flag or a Palestinian flag or even a Ukrainian flag you would welcome, so the issue isn't the flags its our flag ,the staff are rude the owner is rude ,so its time this business got a wake up call to who exactly keeps them in business! This business and any business who refuse custom to their own people should not be in business, this is no way to run a business ,these people are traitors and should be treated as such ...very unprofessional very racist towards white British people who's only crime is loving their own country and not ashame of our countries flag ! So I do not recommend this awful place, its time to start hittibg these people where it hurts their pockets! Oh and the food isn't great either tbh poor customer service a very unwelcoming vibe all round .zero stars”
- Google user
“Just a great pub. Lovely atmosphere, good selection of drinks, always has friendly faces in and we end up chatting to total strangers. This is our calling spot before seeing gigs at the city hall, just along the road. Love coming here and will be back again.”
- Google user
“Really lovely place and the food was excellent. Service was patchy when sitting upstairs but all on all a great place to go.”
Hours
- Monday
- Tuesday
- Wednesday
- Thursday
- Friday
- Saturday
- Sunday
Highlights
“Pub with a Tudor facade and laid-back interiors with bookshelves, chandeliers and exposed brickwork.”
- Great beer selection
- Great cocktails
- Great wine list
- Popular for solo dining
Amenities
- Wheelchair accessible entrance
- Paid parking lot
- Accepts reservations
- Outdoor seating
- Dogs allowed
- Dine-in
Show more amenities
- Food at bar
- Cozy
- Onsite services
- Beer
- Food
- Solo dining
- Offerings· 4
- Alcohol
- Cocktails
- Hard liquor
- Wine
- Parking· 2
- Paid street parking
- Usually somewhat difficult to find a space
- Dining options· 1
- Seating
- Facilities· 1
- Restroom
- Crowd· 4
- Groups
- LGBTQ+ friendly
- Tourists
- Transgender safespace
- Highlights· 3
- Great beer selection
- Great cocktails
- Great wine list
- Atmosphere· 2
- Casual
- Trendy
- Accessibility· 1
- Wheelchair accessible restroom
Location
Bars near City Tavern
- Crows Nest4.21,1470.1 mi£10–20ReservationsWheelchair accessibleOutdoor seating
fish and chips, steak and ale pie, ale and beer selection
- Mean-Eyed Cat4.79410.1 mi
craft beer selection, sour beers, slushy margaritas
- Trillians Rock Bar4.62,0860.1 mi
live rock bands, cover bands, beer and ale selection
| Place | Rating | Distance | Price | Mentioned in reviews |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| City TavernReservations · Wheelchair accessible · Outdoor seating | 4.22,228 | — | £10–20 | sunday roast dinner, giant yorkshire pudding, chicken skewers |
| Crows NestReservations · Wheelchair accessible · Outdoor seating | 4.21,147 | 0.1 mi | £10–20 | fish and chips, steak and ale pie, ale and beer selection |
| Mean-Eyed Cat | 4.7941 | 0.1 mi | — | craft beer selection, sour beers, slushy margaritas |
| Trillians Rock Bar | 4.62,086 | 0.1 mi | — | live rock bands, cover bands, beer and ale selection |
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