Food & Drink

The Punch Bowl

Historic pub first recorded in 1822 and rebuilt in striking Scottish Baronial style in 1879. Grade II locally listed, with a ground-floor bar and the Bobiks events venue upstairs.

125 Jesmond Road, Jesmond, NE2 1JY Visit website @punchbowlncl Facebook

About The Punch Bowl

The Punch Bowl is a historic pub on Jesmond Road, first recorded in Pigot's 1822 directory of Newcastle. The present building was completed in 1879 in an imposing Scottish Baronial style for the spirits merchant Farquhar Laing, built in sandstone with a Welsh slate roof and ironwork detailing, and it appears on Newcastle's Local List of buildings of architectural or historic interest. Under later ownership it passed to Newcastle Breweries. Today the venue trades as a bar and kitchen serving beers, wines, cocktails, and Mexican food, and includes a cinema space alongside private-hire facilities, combining its striking Victorian architecture with a contemporary food-and-drink offering close to Jesmond Metro.

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