Phoenix Bar Jesmond — Restaurant in Newcastle upon Tyne

Take away quality food at restaurant prices. The Pheonix burger isn't great and is covered in that orange sauce you get from the van in B&Q's car park and stuck in a cheap bun that disintegrated in the sloppy mess. The chips were OK. The halloumi wrap was OK but without any great presentation but should have been on the 'Light Bite' menu and priced at around £5 rather than £11.50. The bar manager made a little effort at an apology when he mistakenly asked how our meal was but you could tell he was more embarrassed he'd asked rather than for the food. With a single pint of beer and a cup of coffee the bill came to over thirty quid. Having recently been in London and spending nearly a hundred pounds for lunch on a couple of occasions you'll understand it was the quality and value for money that disappointed rather than the actual cost (and this is Newcastle, not London). No plans to ever repeat this experience. Not...

Lovely big beer garden with a few plants and lots of space to drink, and it's beautiful in summer. Various table sizes to accommodate groups of different numbers. Nice decor inside, plenty of tables. Good selection of beers, including the deal atm of £4 Stella! Spectacular value considering the price of the other bars along Osborne road. Friendly bar staff with decent customer service. Tried the food a while a go and it was very good, top notch...

The location is good but the service is terrible and the food is average and overpriced in comparison to other nearby bars.

They took over 1h to get our food order and once it arrived, there was no cutlery. After 30 minutes of several failed requests for knife and fork, we finally received it but the food was cold by then. This isn’t staff’s fault, management needs to realise they need more people as we weren’t the only...