Lonsdale Hotel in Newcastle upon Tyne

Came on down for the quiz night with my mate Tommy TJ. Had a powtastic time drinking ye olde Guiness. The food was great and the quiz made me say: powzers! Would suggest adding kung pow chicken to the menu but I will be back next week with Tommy TJ to tear up the quiz again! POW!

I came last night for the pub quiz and we had a fantastic time. I got a scrumptious pint of Guiness and maybe 6 more LOL we went bonkers. Sore head this morning for me and my man friend but I will definitely be back. Our quiz team was quizers in Paris but unfortunately it was not our night. I was not happy about one thing as the bandit pulled my pants down towards the end of the night. I also asked the bar to call me a taxi but they refused and upon walking home me and my partner suffered some abuse from local hoodlums calling me for my Cuban heels.

Nice little pub no complaints 👌

Everyone behind the bar was lovely and so friendly! Neve, Alex and Ethan were great serving drinks and added a great vibe to the place!

Gran servicio muy rápido a través de la cola y el ambiente muy cálido, sin duda vale la pena la visita y bebidas muy baratas en comparación con otros pubs cercanos

Un almuerzo encantador pasado con la familia. La elección de la comida era excelente, con un menú para niños también disponible. La comida cuando llegó fue 10 / 10 , incluso tuvimos desierto 😋 Muy útil para la estación de West Jesmond. No pasará mucho tiempo hasta que volvamos.

Este pub propiedad de Green king y no tiene cerveza inglesa en borrador deplorable también pidió un café y le dijeron que la máquina estaba rota tomó una bebida luego volvió a pedir comida y luego le dijeron que la nevera de abajo estaba rota y no podía decirme cuándo estaría funcionando increíblemente

Gran comida, el bistec era excelente, así como el servicio de Ben. Volveré a visitar de nuevo a un precio razonable. Preciosos baños limpios, fabuloso jabón de manos

No decent ale so I've down graded from an otherwise very decent boozer. Always good to see a packed pub with young and old all enjoying the place. Glad I popped in.

Excellent pub loads of fun Brillaint staff

Brilliant pub, friendly staff, nice neighbourhood local.

Always a go to in Newcastle, best pub, good vibes and very clean

decent local close to my stomping ground.

Great draught line up, great craic

The Lonsdale Pub in West Jesmond is a true hidden gem, offering a warm and welcoming atmosphere that instantly makes you feel at home. The décor combines traditional pub charm with a modern twist, making it perfect for both casual drinks and lively evenings with friends. The space is cozy, with a lovely outdoor seating area that’s great during warmer months, and inside you can find both quiet corners and bustling areas depending on your mood. One of the highlights of the Lonsdale is its impressive drink selection, featuring local ales, craft beers, wines, and spirits. Whether you’re a beer lover or prefer something like a crisp gin and tonic, there’s something for everyone. The rotating craft beers are always exciting, offering something new to try every time you visit. What truly sets this pub apart is its fantastic service. The staff are friendly, knowledgeable, and attentive, always happy to recommend a drink or have a quick chat. They create a welcoming atmosphere where you feel like a regular, even on your first visit. Despite being busy on weekends, the service never feels rushed or impersonal. Overall, The Lonsdale is a standout pub in Jesmond. Its blend of great drinks, inviting ambiance, and superb service make it the perfect spot for a relaxed evening or a catch-up with friends. You’ll find yourself coming back time and again!

Good food. Lovely Sunday dinner. Friendly staff.had salt and pepper chicken yesterday 😋 with curry sauce. Lush. Mmm

Mint pub. Bar staff were cracking and beers are a good price

It was fairly quiet for a lunch time food was fine would go again

Great place to watch the football, great atmosphere and friendly staff!

I cannot praise this place enough. The manager, Rob, went above and beyond to allow us to watch the football game we wanted in the pub, even ringing round the sister pubs for us to see if they could get it. The food was great, really flavourful. All of the staff were so friendly, answering all of our questions and the service was so quick! Lovely pub with a great atmosphere!

Men's toilets smelt of stale drains and urinal blocks. Looked clean enough, just smelt. Ate the chicken shemer flat bread thing, omg it went straight through me in about an hour, tummy didn't feel better for a few days after.

Tuve una gran noche con mis amigos para una despedida ceremonial para un amigo apreciado, Ethan el camarero era un camarero fantástico que hizo la noche brillante

This is a great spot for grabbing a drink and socialising with friends, we especially love to attend the quizzes ran here which are always great fun! Ethan who works on bar is always very friendly and gives excellent service!

Hi I went to the Lonsdale and was pleasantly surprised by Ethan Ive’s contribution to society. He really works hard, but could do with a shave. I will be visiting again.

Nice pub, great service from Ethan who served a great pint and was a good laugh when serving us, will definitely be coming back in the future

Went for the euro match England vs Netherlands. It was an amazing atmosphere and the staff were fantastic! Especially the bar staff, pouring drinks fast and well. Will go again!

Came here to watch England games for the euros. Friendly polite staff, warm environment and enjoyable experience on serval occasions

There is no service, you have to order at the bar. We had some fish and chips and pork steak, for the price we paid it was ok, but nothing special. We visited on Friday, the place was quite crowded and noisy, I recommend it more for drinks not for a dinner.

Great food, drinks and atmosphere. Ethan really looked after us and gave us fantastic recommendations. We will be back!

Lovely place, well priced and nice staff. Bar tender Ethan was very nice and poured me several excellent pints of Guinness and quickly. Very impressed

this is a good pub as it has good food, drinks and the staff are very helpful and welcoming. The pub also has many friendly regular's who like to chat and just chill

Popped in for a drink after our visit to the Hoppings & due to the friendly service we stayed for a couple.

Good pub, good food, good beer. Prices have increased, but so has everywhere. Food is nice, there's plenty of choice, meat, vegetarian and vegan options available, and they usually have a deal on the meals, too. There's plenty of seating, further upstairs. All sports are shown here on a plethora of tvs and projectors, there's bandita and a quiz machine too. Can get busy (especially on match days or quiz nights) due to it being in a student dense area. All in all, it's a proper good pub.

wow i love lonsdale and i love free shots!

I really like this pub. This pub is my favourite pub. The lasagne is to die for. I cannot overstate how much i like this pub. It’s a really really fun and nice pub. I went with my friends and they also think it’s a really nice pub. I like the tables. I also like the chairs. Furthermore, I really the guinness, and all the pints.

Great spot, lovely pub, fantastic service

Did the tasting for the new menu all food was cooked beautifully by the chefs. Would recommend coming when the new menus out. The cocktails were very nice as well again would recommend

Unreal new food menu , so great

Nice friendly pub. Caters mainly for students but don't let that put you off. Right at the Metro, close to other bars on Osborne Road .

Brilliant bar with brilliant service, been there many times and is comfortably the best bar is Jesmond. 5 stars all round

Great for pints and drinks, definitely worth the visit.

Really good student deals, food was great too. Good atmosphere.

The first time I've came here and I've loved the service from the staff and the great atmosphere of the oub

The bar has a decent pool table, darts board and decor. The tables are nicely laid out and the pub is situated close to the metro station. However, on my last visit a couple of the off-duty staff became over intoxicated and shed a bad light on the pub. Drinking off-duty can be ok, so long as it's responsible and in moderation, however, I've found some of the newer staff employed to have a lack of discipline and one off-duty member of staff made a very insensitive comment. Also, the manager told me that he was soon getting rid of coors on draft, therefore the only cheap option for lager drinkers is Carling at around £3.80. He said he was going to replace coors (£4.75), with a beer matching the other pints, meaning that the price will be a minimum of £5.40! So for lager drinkers, it's either Carling or a minimum of a £5.40 pint! With the more expensive draft lagers being up to around £6.50! I for one don't particularly enjoy the idea of a pint creeping up to the cost of half an hours minimum wage when there used to be a decent option which was at least 65p less. I'll take my custom elsewhere in future.

Sunday dinner is not available. Wasted time & money on drinks whilst we ordered, once the drinks were made and in our hands they told us they no longer do Sunday dinner despite still being on the menu in the venue and online.

They don’t do sunday dinner, yet advertise it on their website? we booked through their website for a sunday dinner, once we had arrived and received our drinks we were told they no longer served sunday dinner. waste of time and it was also dead af

a pint of diet coke was £3.55 !!!!!

Very few staff on for a Sunday lunchtime. We had to clear our own table!

REALLY GREAT PUB, STAFF ARE SUPERB, WATCH EVERY MATCH HERE.

Canny place, lovely atmosphere, great place for a pint. It's just absolutely extortionately expensive!!!!!! Mind blowingly expensive!!!! £5.30 for quiness zero!!! Horrendous

Kitchen was closed 😕. Everything else was cool.

Haven't been here for years but found a pleasant atmosphere

We booked this event for a work night out after a lot of our remote colleagues joined us in Newcastle for an in-person workshop. The Lonsdale ticked all of our boxes for an evening venue: close enough to our office that we could all share cars/taxis to get there after-hours, close to the metro for transport home or to hotels once a few pints were consumed, and a lovely atmosphere with more to do than just sit and drink. The evening was absolutely fantastic, no small share of which was down to the teams working that evening. Gary and his colleagues welcomed us with warmth and kept us in high-spirits the whole night. Opening the upper bar for us made such a difference and we are very appreciative. The interactive darts and pool table were a boatload of fun too, keeping us entertained for hours on end. I highly recommend. On top of the venue itself being perfect for all of our needs, the staff that night were able to handle a few last minute orders for food (an administrative error on my part) and nobody was left disappointed. All the cooking was phenomenal and I had lots of positive feedback throughout the whole night. Everyone complimented the choice in venue and I imagine that The Lonsdale will be high on our list of options for similar gatherings in the future. Please pass on huge gratitude to Rob, Gary, and the team members whose names I didn't catch who were responsible for supporting our chaos on the nighttime! I'm hopeful we will return soon. 🙂 The Lonsdale was a fantastic place to hunker down, enjoy some drinks, and have a great time without the hustle-and-bustle of the toon, the loud music of a more intense establishment, nor the pressure to move around a bunch of bars. 10 out of 10.

This has certainly changed since I was last in. What a lovely pub! Nice selection of drinks and plenty of seating

Neve and Gemma were absolutely amazing they helped when it was needed.

Good pub in the tradition of English pubs, easy to access, train station opposite the pub, possibility of eating in the evening, broadcast of football and/or rugby matches

Great pub for live sport currently showing all the televised football, rugby, cricket, golf, etc. Student discount of 20% for the academic year when you donate £1 to charity (one-off donation for the whole year discount). Fair prices and a good atmosphere across two levels.

Phenomenal service it was good the bar staff were good the quiz was good overall I would say that it's good + neve

Superb pub in the heart of Jesmond....always an excellent atmosphere with really good staff. Huge cross section of established regulars, local students, tourists and newbies. Excellent for Sport, all the big events are always on and there are huge televisions everywhere you look so it's never an issue to be able to watch everything. Our group come here all the time and we couldnt recommend it more. Enjoy.

We popped in for a few drinks and to watch the football couldn’t believe how welcoming the staff were and very kind very helpful with the virtual darts game they have there we will be returning very soon

Fast serving, nice range of beers, clea, quiet v nice and on the metro line. Food limited but passable.

Busy studenty pub. Unable to place food orders via the app when we visited though.

I used to like this place but not anymore all the tvs apart from the one above the bar had rugby on the one above the bar England u21 final last night on music was so low I asked for the tv to be turned over after the rugby had finished to the England u21 game the manager said I can’t people asked for specific programmes on which had finished so we’re sat there watching a game of rugby from 2014 that not one person was interested in and music was still so low they need to get the staff out of there and get better ones in it’s a disgrace all there interested in are themselves not the people who go in every day spending money

Visited this once great pub Saturday night 27th May. It was more like walking into a disco with loud thumping music,is this really necessary? We went elsewhere so we could hear each other talk .

Had a lovely meal with the in-laws, and played some interactive darts. Louise in particular was a massive help and gave us great service the entire night.

Came in as a group and got told to leave immediately if we didn’t all have Ids at 2pm on Friday may 12th, we came back a few minutes after as half of us did have Ids and we even showed the staff, and explained we didn’t even want to be served alcohol as must of us are Muslim and we’re just here to meet up with friends for a leavers day. Says online as long as an adult is present we were allowed in before 7pm but even after showing Ids were kicked out since “we all didn’t have ids” whilst a group of our friends who arrived earlier were allowed in and didnt have to show id AND were served alcohol. I hate to say it’s due to racism but I don’t see any other reason why a group of white people our age were allowed in with no ids and our group of poc were immediately told to leave though no rules stated we have to. My friend also left a similar review and got a response saying we “tried to get the same person to buy us drinks” and “there was no adult to ensure our behaviour” which is just lies, as we didn’t even try to get drinks as we were kicked before we were even allowed to find our friends or a table and as I said previously we did show proof of id that some of us were above 18.

Racist!!!!!! I was part of the group mentioned in one of the other reviews where they denied us entrance at 2pm on our leaver's day. The Lonsdale are claiming in their response to my friend that we all tried to get one person to buy us drinks which is just blatantly not true as the majority of us are Muslim, so we were clearly not going to drink. They also said in the response to my friend that "When a bunch of underage kids come into a venue, we turn them away." Numerous people from our group showed ID to prove that we are over 18. A group of our white friends, also our age, were let in without ID with no adult present may I add, and they were also served drinks without being IDed. And we didn't have a grown adult to ensure our behaviour, but neither did our group of white friends, but they didn't seem to have a problem getting in. The only difference between our group who was turned away rudely, and the group allowed in before us was our race. We are all the same age and came to The Lonsdale all under the same circumstances so I have all reason to believe that the reason my friends and I (People Of Colour) weren't allowed in without ID but other groups our age (white) were is RACISM. Stop twisting the story, and from this encounter alone, I think we know enough about your behaviour to call you racist.

Racist! Me and my friends went to celebrate school ending. Most people from our year were coming here and we wanted to see everyone. A group of my white friends went in before us, they weren't asked for I.D and were allowed in (and served alcohol despite some being underaged). We come in straight after, most of us People of Colour; all of us ID’s asked for (half of us had ours), those who didn’t have theirs were turned away. It was mid day (around 2:00) in broad daylight, we just wanted some food with our friends. We explained the situation but the man was very rude, blunt and turned us away. The worst part is I read a review in which the owner reply’s explaining they let under 18s in until 7pm. Therefore, there can be no other explanation other than racism. In the 21st Century? Absolutely disgusting and ruined our last day.

Good atmosphere, decent pricing.

Good pub with lots of drinks to choose from. Enjoy the pub quizzes!!

Cannie little pub 2 mins walk from west Jesmond metro station. Great atmosphere, friendly helpful staff. Clean tidy and so we're the toilets. Wheelchair accessible entrance and toilet. Not bad prices for drinks. Lovely cocktails. Didn't have food on this visit but did browse through menu and think I might be back to try the fudge cake, Maybs share with my 8 year old grandson lol. Sporty bar, with few TVs and pool table and darts board upstairs. I noticed someone playing scrabble from behind the bar also. Will I return and recommend, YES😊

Brilliant service and brilliant vibes

Got to love coming to The Lonsdale, Mint Location opposite the Metro. Perfect Cocktails now being served, I rave about my Garibaldi to my friends. Can't wait for the sun sp we can enjoy Mojito's in the sun.

Excellent service from Marc and Alex! Food brilliant, credit to the chef. Good find next to metro. We will be back!

I get the queue system and works very well- it’s looks longer that it is! Staff brilliant, seating optional, pick a spot and why not! But QR code doesn’t work- heard on the grape vine it’s been turned off- having that, you’d expect a menu spread out somewhere- NOWT! So re-lined up and asked and they were in a box x Emma, diamond exchanged my diet pint for full f@t coke no issues- also took my order within the later 23mins of service. What disappointed me was acting manager gave the look of Medusa for handing a GP, you know General public and menu out of the box that was just laid on the side… 10/10 for staff and service, o 0/10 for allowing management to see their disgust!

A decent pub for when sports events are on. Mainly for younger people and students at night. The food is the kind of fast food etc that arrives at your table in five minutes if you like that sort of thing, the beer is good enough - especially for lager - and the staff are friendly.

Perfect location for a pint before catching the metro to the rugby 🏉

My partner and I popped in to the Lonsdale for food on a whim and we were so glad we did! A lovely barmaid, Abi apologised after we ordered our food, informing us that it would be a wait as it was so busy. We didn't mind, as we were both settled in watching the Rugby! Barely any time later Abi arrived with 2 delicious plates of Sunday lunch! Our plates were completely clear, I can highly recommend the vegetarian tart, it was complemented perfectly with the Yorkshire pudding, roasties and veg! My partner's roast beef and turkey was cooked perfectly and he thoroughly enjoyed it. Huge compliments to the Chef and the very polite Barmaid. We will certainly be back.

Absolutely delicious food and very friendly and efficient bar staff, especially Abi who servedus. I highly recommend the Sunday Lunch and will definitely return! Compliments to the Chef!

This is now a fairly generic pub.The beer was OK, but not great, the range is notcas good as it used to be.

Good deals for students, but often long queues. We were told to leave 5 minutes after last orders which wasn't ideal

Owner thinks he's guarding fort knox, quiz is decent though

Enjoyed the food which came speedy and the service was great. Staff are lovely. Nice atmosphere and a great venue for all sport

Expensive and poor service. Bar area is awful and staff have no idea who's next.

been drinking here for 20 years, my dad played footy for the pub team 40 years ago, old and new its a great pub and always has been, its own vibe in Jemsond, the refurb is quality, really well done and much needed I was in here for few world cup games and the atmosphere was top draw. whether with your pals or family and kids, always made to feel welcome

Excellent all round! Great friendly staff! Great location! Great food and drink! A diamond find! 😎✨

Student pub central. Great pub quizzes & atmosphere is always good.

Good atmosphere, good beer. Just always a massive queue at the bar for drinks.

Typically English place, nice atmosphere and good variety of beers. The cost of food needs to be reviewed. Worth visiting in Jesmond.

Nice ambience for a pint and a gin and tonic. Just opposite the metro station.

Friendly staff and food is lovely too

Great atmosphere, fab staff and don't forget the excellent selection of beers. Will come again.

I visited here earlier this year, I live in South Shields and fancied exploring Jesmond. What a beautiful pub this is. I was even in awe at the toilets! Definitely visiting again.

Getting served can be a bit of a pain and there take service is almost never available. Pub quizes are Goated Though

What a place! The service = excellent! The pints = excellent! The place = excellent

I booked the Chrstmas Meal yesterday for nine of us including myself! The Staff were very attentive and with it being the World Cup I thought it would be busy but it was quiet as our Lunch was 1pm! The food was outstanding and piping hot, all served together considering different starters, mains and desserts were ordered!I always book the Lonsdale at Christmas and this years choice of Menu was different from Traditional which I think is a move in the right direction! Starters were mainly The Maple Syrup and Butternut Squash, Cauliflower Croquettes and Pulled Turkey with Roasties! Mains Turkey and Ham Hock Pie with Broccoli, Mash or Fries with Gravy, Steak with Chips and Veg, Sauce of choice! Desserts Eton Mess, Bramble and Apple Crumble with Custard or Ice Cream, Chocolate Brownie Pudding with Ice Cream! The Presentation was outstanding, Louise was attending us and offered fresh Napkins, Water, Condiments and Drinks! Was not dissappointed with the Service or the Price! Great Value!

Staff friendly and helpful, aptly named Ice Breaker Pale ale a treat. Clean and convenient for Metro.

Good atmosphere, plenty of choice.

Top staff great service. Awful customers

I have been coming here for 3 years, I have felt like a local, been made especially comfortable from the managers Mac and Rob. Food is fantastic and I hope to be coming here for many years to come. Upa lonny d’s