Food & Drink

The Cluny

Name: The Cluny
Address: 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ, Newcastle City, GB
Telephone: 0191 230 4474
Price range: ££

A bar, cafe and 300-capacity live music venue in a former Ouseburn flax mill, with a second smaller room next door.

36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ 0191 230 4474 Visit website

About The Cluny

The Cluny is a pub, cafe and live music venue at 36 Lime Street in the Ouseburn Valley, a few minutes downhill from the city centre. The building was completed in 1848 as a flax spinning mill for Messrs Plummer and Cooke, designed by John Dobson, the architect behind much of Georgian and early Victorian Newcastle. It reopened in 1860 as a steam-powered flour mill, and later became a Scotch whisky bottling plant called the Cluny, which is where the present name comes from. The bar opened in 1999 and the venue shares the wider building with artists' studios, offices and recording studios, which is typical of how the Ouseburn's industrial stock has been reused.

The main room holds around 300 and has a long-standing reputation as one of the best mid-sized stages in the North East, taking touring indie, folk, jazz and experimental acts as well as local bills. A second, smaller space known as The Cluny 2 sits alongside it for early-career and club-night programming. Away from gig times it functions as a proper bar and kitchen, with cask and craft beer and food served through the day, and its riverside-valley setting under the Byker viaducts is part of the draw.

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