Recommend me a good restaurant in Newcastle

[Christmas Tree 5560]

5 hours ago, RobElliott said:

Taking a day trip with family to Newcastle in July, wee man didnt get a stadium tour.

Any recommendations for kid friendly spots bar shite like KFC?

Don’t know age of kid, but if he’s the right age, he might enjoy lane 7, just down from the ground.

 

https://lane7.com/venue/newcastle/

[Renton 24786]

Lane 7 is more for student age I'd say. Pity the Hard Rock Cafe has shut tbh. Maybe the Fat Hippo if you're after a burger, Pizza Punk for Pizzas obvs, the Botanist for views, or My Delhi for a curry if he likes spicy food. 

[Gemmill 53506]

Does he like Lucozade? Lucozade Spot Isotonic gets to your thirst fast, if that's his kind of thing. 

[Gemmill 53506]

Lane 7 is a good shout btw. There's bowling lanes plus some other game type stuff that I can't remember (air hockey maybe), and the scran is kids' type fare.

 

You'll need to book a lane and possibly a table in advance though. 

[Christmas Tree 5560]

Yeah, we took a mixed age range of kids to Lane 7 and they loved it. Food is nowt special but good enough. They have lots of interactive games as well as bowling, table tennis, pool etc

 

This was during the day though so can’t comment on what an evening is like.

Edited May 7 by Christmas Tree

[Alex 38197]

2 hours ago, Gemmill said:

Lane 7 is a good shout btw. There's bowling lanes plus some other game type stuff that I can't remember (air hockey maybe), and the scran is kids' type fare.

 

You'll need to book a lane and possibly a table in advance though. 

Pool tables plus mini golf I think 

[RobinRobin 13119]

7 hours ago, Christmas Tree said:

This was during the day though so can’t comment on what an evening is like.

Darker. 👍 

[Gemmill 53506]

Been to Omni today. 

 

Beef shin and peanut curry with a side of crispy ribs. Sensational. 

 

Left with a slice of chocolate and Guinness cake in a box. 

 

Get yourselves there if you haven't been already. 

[Howmanheyman 38521]

3 hours ago, Gemmill said:

Been to Omni today. 

 

Beef shin and peanut curry with a side of crispy ribs. Sensational. 

 

Left with a slice of chocolate and Guinness cake in a box. 

 

Get yourselves there if you haven't been already. 

 

Greeeeeedy bastard. 

 

CT, don't let this lie.

[Gemmill 53506]

 I've had nowt for tea like. Was full as fuck. 

 

[Monkeys Fist 46947]

What’s the worst food you’ve had served up to you? 
( Post piss-up kebab nonsense doesn’t count- they’re always dire)

 

When I was working fitting ductwork, we went to the site canteen at Addenbrookes on the first day to try it out. 
“ Meat Pie, Chips and Peas”

Hmm, I’ll ask what meat it is, what’s the worst that it could be, thunk I. 

Asked- “ It’s just meat pie luv”

Oh -oh! 
 

Served up, looked fairly standard site canteen fare, chips were obviously cooked in old oil as they were dotted with black bits, but I thought “ Had worse…”

 

Sat down, cut the pie open, and as I was thinking the exact same thing, the lads sitting next to me said 

“ What the fuck is that?” 
 

Chunks, not cubes, chunks that had just been hacked off, of pale pink, slimy looking pork luncheon meat (cheap Spam), we’re looking back at me in a pool of instant gravy. 
But that wasn’t the worst. 
 

It should have been on the menu as “Mixed Meat Pie”

 

In equal amounts to the pink chunks, were crispy edged slices of what was clearly at least yesterday’s kebab meat, that had been sitting in the hot tray all day after being carved off…

 

… then hoyed in with its pink mate to make this fucking abomination- no onions or other superfluous veg to get in the way of whatever the fuck this “meat” combo tasted like either. 
 

It looked like a meat version of Rocky Road Chocolate slice, 
 

Took it back to the counter and asked for a refund and the cheeky cunts said there nothing wrong with it! 
 

I said “ Ok then, if there’s nothing wrong with it, you have a bite of it, otherwise I’ll have my money, thanks.”

 

Refunded. 

[NJS 4770]

Not my story but a lad I used to play football with worked in the shipyards and when it was all going tits up he got some work in Barrow in furness and stayed in a B&B where the owner supplied their bait as part of the rate. First day they opened it up and it was cold chip shop fish and chips from the night before in sandwiches. 

[Renton 24786]

Mallorca - large cockroach in my KFC zinger burger.

NYC - chicken and black bean stir fry. A sizable proportion of the black beans were actually dead insects 

Washington DC - Ethiopian restaurant where you eat using flat bread. Chewing gum in the flat bread.

 

Noting that horrendous springs to mind from this country tbh.

[Monkeys Fist 46947]

Took the kids for a late lunch in Berwick on a trip up there a few years ago. 
 

They wanted Pizza so we ended up in a place called Limoncellos just down from the Main Street. 
 

Were seated, menus dumped on the table, and we waited for someone to take our drinks order. 
 

And waited 

 

And waited. 
 

20 minutes later I physically grabbed a waiter passing our table and gave our drinks order. 
 

Drinks came 10 minutes later, dumped on table, no food order taken from us though. 
 

Again, after a daft wait, I grabbed a waiter and gave them our food order. 
 

Over an hour later the food turned up!

 

Mine came first, mussels in tomato and chilli , on spaghetti. 
 

Over half of them were closed, so before the waiter had time to fuck off, I pulled him and pointed out that half my dish was inedible. 
 

He said, “ No, it’s fine, you can still eat them “

I disagreed, strongly. 
 

The daft cunt stuck with his idiocy and when he realised I wasn’t budging, he picked out several of the dead ones and opened them with a spoon, offering them to me to smell. 
 

Yes, that’s right, the fucking dodge pot STUCK HIS FINGERS IN TO MY PASTA and fished out about three of the dead ones 

 

I just looked at Mrs. F who gave the sideways “let’s fuck off” nod, just as the rest of the food arrived. 
 

Up we got, I ushered the family out, then told boyo that if he hadn’t stuck his clammy paws in my meal, I’d have waited for a fresh one, but since he did, he could take the whole lot back and fucking whistle for the round of drinks. 
 

 

[Renton 24786]

Actually that sound very similar to an experience I had at a restaurant called "El Treno" near York, next to the ECML. Its called " The Sidings" now, presumably new management. Grateful for trainspotting, I was like that lad from YouTube. But even that couldn't make up for seriously the worst service and food I've ever had in the UK. The pizza calzone just looked an anaemic dog turd. I told them I'd only pay for the drinks, which they agreed but were so fucking incompetent they forgot the wine  still only charged me half the drinks bill. The TripAdvisor reviews backed up it wasn't a one off. 

[Dougle 3909]

Not specific meals like, but one night whilst working on cruise ships me and my mate sneaked into the kitchens to see if there was any bait for grabs.

Loads of covered massive trays for the next day’s breakfast on the benches. Pealed back the tin foil off the top of one to see the complete thing covered every millimetre with cockroaches. Didn’t even know the bastards could fly till that moment.

[Monkeys Fist 46947]

[Ayatollah Hermione 15377]

Once went into a Chinese on Low Fell after a Friday night skinful. Asked for curry and chips and, to this day, I have no idea what they gave me but it wasn’t curry. It had the colour and consistency of a baby’s sick and had a taste equivalent to a baby’s shite. It was that bad and toxic, I had to have about 4/5 mouthfuls just to try and figure out what I had received. The place shut about 3 weeks later and it had to be on the health inspectors command