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Chew on this - The Lounge, Neville Street

By Alex Grover • Dec 10th, 2008 • Category: food

The Lounge, opposite Central Station, is a jack of many trades.
It’s a bar for the after-work crowd in the evenings, a cafe bar by day and moonlights as a tacky meat market at weekends, where downstairs in the basement you may find topless dancers on a match day, or the grab-a-granny crowd on Friday and [...]



Chew on this - Curry Capital, Bigg Market

By Alex Grover • Dec 1st, 2008 • Category: food

We’ve excelled ourselves in the gluttony stakes for our efforts at Curry Capital on Bigg Market yesterday evening.



Chew on this - Lau’s Buffet King, Stowell Street

By Alex Grover • Nov 7th, 2008 • Category: food

Last night, Newcastlecentric decided to take a trip to Newcastle’s Lau’s Buffet King in Stowell Street, part of Newcastle’s small but perfectly formed Chinatown.



Come together for Yoko Ono in Gateshead

By Alex Grover • Sep 5th, 2008 • Category: events

If you’re an embittered Beatles fan you’ll know Yoko Ono as John Lennon’s wife and the rumoured cause of The Beatle’s disbandment in 1970. But Yoko is so much more than the subject of Beatle’s songs (it’s said Come Together, Don’t Let Me Down and the more obviously titled Oh Yoko! alluded to her).



Chew on this - Kaffeccinos, Grainger Street

By Alex Grover • Sep 1st, 2008 • Category: food

There’s a caffeine kick on every corner in Newcastle from numerous big brand cafes such as Starbuck’s, Pret a Manger, Cafe Nero and Costa Coffee.



Preview - 2 Many DJs, Digital Newcastle

By Alex Grover • Aug 22nd, 2008 • Category: music

If you’re looking to get the most out of your bank holiday weekend, then make the most of the opportunity to go out on a school night and get down to Digital Newcastle on Sunday for 2 Many DJs.



Time at the bar - Florita’s, Collingwood Street

By Alex Grover • Aug 3rd, 2008 • Category: nightlife

There’s a new bar in town - well, a newly improved bar, you could say.
The owners of the popular, trendy bar Apartment on Collingwood Street, Vibrant Ventures, decided that after five years in which Apartment has become one of Newcastle’s most popular choices for a night out, it was time for a makeover.