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14 High Bridge Street
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 1EN
0191 230 3002
www.yolotownhouse.com
YOLO Townhouse is set over three floors and is part of a terrace, hence: Townhouse. As I climbed the stairs to the top floor I caught myself thinking “yep, this is a townhouse”. But YOLO?
Five or six years ago it was bang on-trend for kids to have this acronym emblazoned over their baseball caps after, if memory serves, the rapper Drake, who released a track that coined it.
YOLO stood for You Only Live Once: time is short, so go on, get another large Chardonnay down you. That kind of thing.
So why would a brand new bar and restaurant in a smart townhouse in 2017 want to name itself after a stale yoof slogan from 2011, especially one quite so butt-clenchingly, teeth-grindingly empty and awful? Good question.
Of course, I don’t really mind what a restaurant is called as long as the cooking is up to scratch. But when, as here, it’s a grim imitation of better dishes available elsewhere far cheaper, an annoying name becomes the awful cherry on a cake of woe.
