You know that post-Christmas feeling? When all you’re doing is waiting for new year? In this time of need you do not need to go to the gym, or stress about fitting into your sparkly dress to bring in 2014. You need Pie & Mash. More specifically Red House Pie & Mash on Newcastle Quayside.
I don’t know about you, but where I come from a night by an open fire with proper English fud is a night well spent- and so it is at Red House. I drive past this place every night on the way home from work and have been dying to try it out! In these cold winter months hot English pub food is not only required but demanded, so off to the pub we went to have a Christmas catch-up and natter about boys.
We got settled by the window and got down to choosing us some pastry. First off you choose your pie (1 or 2 depending on how adventurous you are) then it’s time to decipher what mash you want, which is a very important decision, after that you have a choice of peas and eventually you choose what you want to drown it all in.
Steak pie, creamy mash (every time), minted peas and port liquor with a glass of red pour moi
Sweat potato, goats cheese and spicy tomato pie avec creamy mash, mushy peas and parsley liquor pour madamoiselle Katie
But of course the allure of other pies was too tempting, so we went halfers.
Red House really is a fab little place to sit back and watch the world go by, especially with one of the best views of the Tyne Bridge in Newcastle. The building must be one of the oldest in the city but it’s guests range from the likes of us youngsters to those in their retirement years- in other words a nice mixture.
Go in with your shopping bags and big wooly coat because no ones going to judge you and the bar tenders will be the most polite you have ever met, especially the one with the beard. Being the gossips that we are, another drink was called for so we tootled up Dean Street to Pleased to Meet You for some cheeky cocktails before running for the last bus home.
What’s Christmas without good times with your nearest and dearests?
