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Work begins on second new bar at Theatre Royal
The Journal
|May 12, 2025
NEWCASTLE'S Theatre Royal has unveiled plans to transform a former bar and restaurant into a new leisure venue.
DatBar once welcomed crowds of diners with its menu of burgers, pizzas and chicken, served alongside craft beers, cocktails and wines, but the Market Street venue - set within the Theatre Royal building - has been closed for many months.
Now theatre bosses are looking to give the huge bar space a new lease of life as a leisure venue, to be enjoyed by theatre audiences and the public.
It revealed last year how it was working on designs for the bar with architects MawsonKerr and interior designers Design North, as part of plans to create two new bars.
This story is from the May 12, 2025 edition of The Journal.
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