Monday 20 May 2013

The Brandling Villa - Pub - Newcastle





I have recently been to a great pub in Gosforth, Newcastle.
It’s called the The Brandling Villa. (link at bottom of page)

The hole reason for going was that it hand handmade “gourmet burgers” with funny names.
Now this place is also a dog friendly pub so that meant that we could be joined by jack (which someone thought was a starved Doberman but is clearly not), a lovely dog who hyper salivation problem when confronted with car boots… but that’s another story.

On arriving in the pub I and one of my friends were very impressed with the amount of ales and the friendly bar staff.

After getting a Pint of Tribute – Cornish pale ale and some ale for my friend called urban … something or other …. And casually trampling on someone’s King Charles Cavalier Spaniel crossed with a shiatsu and vacuum cleaner (well, maybe that’s what the owner said), we went to sit down and look at the menu.

Let me just start by saying that the pub serves more than just burgers but that’s not what I was concerning myself with at the time. 









The burgers were named follows:
The classic                                                                The rise of Fernando Torres
The David Dickinson                                               The Beef Chegwin
The Berliner                                                              The Jerry Springer
The angry Susan                                                       The Chicken Classic
The Angela Lansbury                                               The Porco Rosso

… actually I think I have a picture of part of the menu. I’ll put it up but I warn you it is blurred.






















They cost between £7.95 and £9.75 and come with thick homemade chips and are served on what looks like an extremely flat, shallow, brown, wooden canoe.



 





Out of four of us (not including Jack the dog) only one person opted to have a non burger pie type affair which though it looked and smelled nice was not a burger with a silly name! I remember nothing about it apart that it came with peas. The dog himself was denied burgers on the grounds that he has no opposable thumbs so he couldn’t eat a burger properly… and that he’s a dog.






The burgers had were The Angela Lansbury, The Beef Chegwin and the Porco Rosso.
I had to try the Angela Lansbury.

80z handmade burger, fresh salad, Swiss cheese, grilled pineapple and a free range poached egg.

It                                   was                             amazing!  

 Great flavours, ingredients cooked just right and not oozing with grease. Plus proper chips.
In fact the only complaint was from Jack the dog who wanted to explore the entire pub and be fed  with other peoples meals!

I’d say this is possibly one of the best pubs I’ve been in for some time but what’s not to like about a nice, friendly good looking pub with amazing food and drink and dogs!
I just wish I lived closer and didn’t have to travel about an hour to get there.










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