The Oddfellows, North Shields

A large group of friends getting together for the first time in a few years chose to meet here, 'cos it has such a good reputation. We were expecting a good night and prepared to spend well. Oh how very disappointed we were. Saturday night and we had just settled in with our first drinks, expecting to enjoy a pleasant night in a "friendly" atmosphere.
All was going well until we were very impolitely told by a musician that we had to move. Apparently some buskers always sit in those seats. We had little choice, so we put up with moving seats and got on with enjoying our drinks and own company. The music started and we thought it might make for a nice background, however it was not very good and it appeared to be played only for the pleasure of the musicians themselves.
We drank our drinks and left to go to another pub where we carried on spending money until the early hours of Sunday morning.
We will not be back to North Shields “best kept secret”. We are happy enough to spend a lot of money in another pub, if you prefer to value the comfort of some buskers over your customers.

31 Oct 2013 20:39