Utopia Lux Bar in County Durham

Walked out twice recently, group of 4, staff only served people in front of them instead of noticing other people waiting at the 2 other sides of the bar.

Cracking bar, decent size, good variety of drinks. Lovely staff. £2.50 pints I mean what's not to love.

One barperson only. Had to enlist pot boy to help. Boss playing DJ, while football on TV. Get a grip.

Great staff, drinks very good value, well worth a visit 👍

Great bar. Always warm when others won't turn heating on. Great sports choice and cheap but good pints

Good bar, open all day and caters for most ages. Mainly older people through the day and younger ones on an evening. Lager and beer prices are decent, and the music is good...but gets turned up loud after 8pm on a Saturday. TV's all around the bar to cater for sports and music.

Good service and excellent choice

Great service. Good choice of drinks.

Utopia nice bar have few drinks with few friends done good job inside bar nice cosy 🍻☕🍰🍾

Bit quiet but ok. Nice enough place but think we just got there as everyone left

Great bar, friendly atmosphere. Definitely recommended 😁

Such an amazing place to go in chester le street staff are welcoming and friendly and the music is fantastic 🙂 definitely a 👍 from me X

Very friendly staff and if you smoke or use vapour it's got outside facilities for you. Great atmosphere

My partner and I have been going here on a Saturday pm for the past few weeks, this Saturday my 62 year old partner was approached by the security/doorman and told that He had to leave by 8pm as He was wearing tracksuit bottoms (bearing in mind He always wears them due to being disabled) Absolutely crazy considering we are good customers and other people wearing ripped jeans, trainers etc!! Needless to say we won't be going back, you've lost good customers, my family and friends will be going elsewhere too.

Comfortable with very good prices for the beers. I believe it's now called The Lodge.

Nice atmosphere service slow but will go back. 🙂

Okay but not the same atmosphere under new management (same family ownership)

The service was excellent the football was on everyone was very happy great day

Great if you're under 18. Probably not one legal age person in there. Ordered our drinks, saw them waiting on a tray on the bar after 30 minutes. Saw 5 lots of drinks get served whilst ours waited. Ended up asking for a refund in the end... We paid on card... The kid serving (young lad) slammed a £20 note on the table and walked away. We took the refund and left even thought we didn't want cash back, but its a glorified school disco so you take what you can get. Probably had his 16 year old mates to serve. Glad we went to know never to go back. Honestly though, if I was 16/17 I'd love it. If you can legally drink, save yourself the time and do not go. If you're underage and want to get served, kncok yourself out.

Nice pub, sticking to social distancing. Very friendly staff.

Lovely bar, great prices, and very clear on covid 19 rules

Excellent food and wonderful polite staff

Had a great lunch mexican , friendly staff great prices, very clean and nice decor . Great value too. Always pop in on days off

Never even knew this existed!! Guess I don’t get out much. Was impressed by nice furnishings and the three servers behind the bar were all polite and helpful. The place is connected to Tequila Tequila and you can eat their Mexican food in here. We did that and it was all good stuff. Would particularly recommend the chicken and steak fajitas.

Cheap beer prices, reasonable decor and friendly staff

Reasonable prices, relaxed atmosphere plenty of space, friendly staff.

friendly good atmosphere and good prices

Nice relaxed atmosphere,really nicely renovated

Ideal for sport and good prices

Smashing bar, great service, good price

Great place. Great for sport. Beer cheap friendly punters. Staff sound.

My son had to leave because he had puma track suit bottom s on while others with similar looking track suits were allowed in...even though the first bouncer let him in as he was too busy on his phone to watch any of us going in..why they have changed their policy because they have had a tiny refub is daft as it's Chester le street and not a posh place

Really nice pint of John smiths

Nice bar quite smart inside does get one or two characters in, but still one of the best bars in town.

Fajny wystrój duży wybór piwka lanego jest parkiet także w weekendy można chyba potańczyć

Upstairs but a lift makes it OK, very reasonable priced drinks and food available from cafe down stairs.

Very good clean cheap drink all sports on plus music

Great place, cold beer, loads of TV's ready for the Newcastle match. Howaye the lads⚽🍺

Nice clean and spacious. Attracts all ages throughout the day

Has a brilliant pint of fosters and the cracks is good.

Very relaxed in the afternoon with good beer prices and good service. Racing on TV so lots of old fellas in there. Evenings, especially weekends transform this place into a party bar with special offers and good music

Nice lounge bar reasonable priced drinks plenty sports on televisions good atmosphere

Very pleasant bar no hassle good cheap drinks

Nice warm homely bar cheap prices pleasant staff lift and toilet for disabled

Very clean and tidy with very friendly staff only thing wrong was stairs but there is a lift

Cheap drink with old man's card

Good feel about the place lots of staff and doorman good tunes and plenty of screens to watch the footy

Cheap prices, great staff, loads of space, loads of sports, can't ask for better.

Friendly staff and a good outside area

Great atmosphere, decent beer and shots and well priced

Cheap drinks but it's pretty rough and dark.

I have a lot of friends there as I lived in Chester let street for over 10 years

relaxing if you want great service from great girls fantastical music nights you will love the food .

Drinks are cheap friendly atmosphere