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Shark Club Gastro Bar
Sandman Signature Hotel, Heber St
Gallowgate
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 4BT
0191 229 2615
www.sharkclubs.co.uk
[Sadly, the standard of food has gone down to ✪✪ since my first optimistic review in 2011]
There's a new phenomenon in the UK, the “gastrosportsbar”. Shark Club Gastro Bar, directly opposite St James’ Park in Newcastle, has scores of television screens carrying every conceivable sport, and by far the friendliest and best-trained staff in Britain.
That may be because they’re not British: they’re 20-something Canadian girls with tight black dresses and genuine smiles. They’re here to train our Geordie lasses: I’d like to be a fly on the wall when the fur flies.
