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I quite like the place. Decent pint and staff are sound. Normally quite busy with a canny atmosphere.
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This place stinks. Not the beer - there's still a decent range, despite what one correspondent thinks, not the staff, who have never been less than friendly and have to put up with the occasional lunatic; the place itself stinks. Is it the toilets? Is it dampness? Is it the sewage pipes underneath the street? If this place was a restaurant, it would've been closed by the health inspectors long ago. For God's sake do something about it before you get shut down.
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Somehow felt a bit spartan when I popped in during a city centre crawl. Adequate, but plenty better.
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Sadly the Duke has gone off the boil for real alers! Now concentrates on the main national brews with few guests. Still a good pub as the beer is kept well, but lack of choice marks it down for me.
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An oasis in the middle of newcastle and the only real pub I have found in the city centre on several visits to the city. Six hand pulls on, all excellent, and whilst visiting two were changed over making 8 different but well kept ales all of which just had to be tried and al were enjoyed.
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This used to be the only real ale haven in Newcastle and it still sells a good range. A decent little boozer.
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Excellent pub, very quiet on Sunday afternoon, six real ales on, never been before but will go back again.
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Nice Pint Of Deuchars IPA 2 be had, 7/10
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There's definitely a leak in the gents. What a bloody disgrace. If it had been a restaurant, it would've been closed down - yet, alarmingly, they sell food!!
anonymous - 18 Dec 2006 18:20 |
Great beers. Got to be the smelliest pub in town, however. Don't know whether there's a leak in the toilet or it's dampness but it hits you as soon as you go in the door. Great jukebox.
anonymous - 14 Apr 2006 20:41 |
Now known as the Duke, it's not as good as it used to be, but it's still a good place to go.
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Still a great pub. The food menu has been improved recently and still a good selection of well kept real ales. Well worth a visit.
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Not quite as good as it was from a food point of view, but still a great selection of ales, good service, a real good cross section of customers keeps it up there as one of the best "traditional english pubs" in Newcastle.
BGE - 24 Jul 2004 13:54 |
The duke is a fine pub and serves good clean refreshing pints of ale unlike some of the other pubs mentioned in the pubs near by list. You may pay a few pence more than other pubs but you do know where that extra costis going to
Mark Whitney - 11 Jun 2004 12:36 |
I always seek this pub out of an evening as a place to break the day between work and hotel whenever I am in Newcastle
Acid Sorceror - 18 Feb 2004 10:10 |
The Welly is solid and reliable. Good beers, solid grub, and an interesting line in 19C military prints on the walls. Lunchtimes see solicitors and Big Issue sellers rubbing shoulders - evening crowd tends to be transient.
Ray - 30 Aug 2003 23:57 |
The duke of wellington is a great pub. I went to newcastle with 4 other friends and we didn't find any pub we liked until we found the duke of wellington. You can find very friendly people out there, good beer, good music you can choose your own and very good and friendly bartenders. It was only a pitty of the early closinghour at 11 o'clock.
hannelore Kindt Belgium - 12 Jun 2003 12:58 |
