by Newcastle is Awabakal and Worimi in the country. It has changed dramatically since I withdrew from Sydney here in 2008. The cityscape is full of cranes with many new apartment blocks and hotels. The light rail is a new, albeit controversial supplement and large coffee everywhere.
Now a lot more tourists come here. In her memoirs, the taste of memory, the deceased, great writer Marion Halligan Newcastle described as “the well -kept secret of a place”. Well, the secret is out!
It’s such a simple place to live; Everything is a 15-minute drive away. In October, an international terminal opened at Newcastle Airport with a direct flight to Bali. Next, everyone hopes for a larger Asian goal so that we can contact Europe. This will be a player for Newcastle.
Eat
My top choice is the French-inspired bistro Penny. It was opened in a Heritage building in the city center in 2024 and has a hull. It’s quite expensive, but the classic Cafe de Paris steak is difficult to beat. Book in advance for a weekend table.
Humbug makes its own pasta and has a super interesting wine list. In summer I like to walk from Newcastle Beach and eat outdoors. From snacks to nets, everything is fine. Nagisa is a Japanese restaurant in the goat leaf directly at the harbor. The Sashimi, the Wagyu beef and the dumplings are excellent and the banquets are perfect for a group.
I only save on Arno Delis Paninis. The warm porchetta is my favorite – winter and earthy with eggplants. It also makes cold salami or ham Paninis, and the cannoli is great. It is in the CBD; Expect a queue at the weekend.
Equium social in Mayfield is serious with coffee, but excellent hot chocolate, local ingredients tea, homemade lemonades and smoothies.
Cakeboi in Hamilton belongs to Reece Hignell, a baker who was on master’s director. It has Newcastle’s best hot chocolate and good chai, but they go for the cakes. My favorites are raspberry coconut, Devil’s Food Cake, Lemon Tart and Cinnamon Scrolls.
The Sunnyboy kiosk at Dixon Park Beach is great. Everyone raves about coffee, but I get a smoothie or fresh juice. You pull up a plastic stool in front of the surf club under Newcastle Knights -Rugby players and a young beach crew in the gym.
Nature
The historical baths in Newcastle Ocean are free, spectacular, near a light rail stop and a wheelchair. The concrete stands are a blue -green shadow that only screams. You can get all the best lawyers from Newcastle from exuberant teenagers. On some days the flood strikes over the wall and you see cormorants, fish eagles, Sea Adler or whales. In hot nights, people come around to sit around or swim, and there is lighting for evening dips.
Baders Way is a popular 6 km from Merewether Ocean Bads in the south to the Nobby Beach in the north. Go on through the harbor and you will come past the water and reach Throsby Creek in Wickham. It was once heavily polluted, but now silver fish, bird, mangroves and Newcastle Rowing Club were using it for their annual regatta. It is a recwine success that proves that the community can fight for a room and do something special.
Hickson Street Lookout in Merewether has a breathtaking view. Young people hang around here and eat with you. You can go to Burwood Beach (caution, it is not matched) or challenge yourself with a hike or a bicycle through the area of the state of Glenrock.
Stockton Bight Sand Dunes in Worimi -Nature protection areas are famous. Murrook Adventures runs a sand thin tour in the all-terrain vehicle with cultural and ecological knowledge. It’s so good, I did it twice.
nightlife
Newcastle’s live music scene has gone backwards over the decades. There are not many venues left, but the Lass Pub has long been a live music hotspot and the Hunter & Hunter Hotel has received some amazing Australian and international acts. The crazy poet in Newcastle West is new and has a great wine list, hot dogs and tacos as well as a small stage for live acts on Wednesday evening.
Like most places, it is the little bars and breweries that boomed these days. Bar Mellow in the Hunter Street is located in a beautiful ex-bank. It has cool stands and a nice mood; I would choose a Negroni or a good glass of wine. Method Brewing in Islington is located near Haufen great restaurants on Beaumont Street and you can eat to the Byo brewery.
Romberg’s is my choice for a refined cocktail with a view. It is located on the top floor of Crystalbrook Kingsley, but is open to everyone.
inspiration
Exhibitions, performances and classes are executed in the lock-up Contemporary Gallery in Newcastle’s Historical Precinc. It is in a 19th century police station and there is still a padded cell inside. Much of art is on the basis of the local and reacts to the colonial history of Australia. The curation is first class and the youngest artists have included Khaled Sabsabi and Locust Jones.
The Murrook Culture Center is an amazing new place in Port Stephens (20 minutes north). It leans strongly in interactive digital media and videos. It’s pretty unique. You can pick up some local gatang language phrases in the café, which serves Yapay Djagil (House food) near a peaceful Billabong fringe of paper trees.
The lighthouse in Whibayganba/Nobby Head is an iconic symbol of Newcastle. There is a nice walk along the break wall. It is currently managed by the Hunter Writers’ Center as a lighthouse art and has exhibitions at the weekend. The 360-degree view from above is spectacular.
The Newcastle Art Gallery in Cooks Hill will be reopened together with the new annual art festival at the end of September. The exhibition space is doubled and a new café and a new business.
neighborhood
ECLECTIC Newcastle East is my favorite place. This is exactly where you have millions of dollars apartments with Ocean View Apartments and apartment commission units. There are ocean baths, cafes, parking landscapes, cool restaurants and many Heritage buildings. It is next to the CBD, but about 300 m from Newcastle Beach – that’s pretty rare!
Newcastle Beach is the last light rail stop. From there I recommend going to a former warehouse in the Grain Store to get one of his many boutique beers. Or oysters or fish and chips to take away from scottie and eat them on the grass.
Islington and Wickham are rather gentrified suburbs, but have an egalitarian, reserved feeling. Slingtown in Carrington buns his own coffee, while the Yard Sale in Islington is an ethically -minded shop with wardrobe and pantry booklets. I buy all my gifts from High Swan Dive. It is like a kindergarten for millennials with inner plants, beautiful pots and garden tools. The Islington Park has a skate bowl, a playground and access to Throsby Creek.
The Darby Street in Cooks Hill is the best known Eat Street from Newcastle. It has interior sydney mood, terrace housing and the Delaney Hotel. The Goldbergs Coffee House has been in operation since 1995 and is the only place where it is open for coffee after 3 p.m. It is a no-fresh institution. I am one of the regular guests who have been coming for 25 years.
Accommodation
The latest child on the block is the Little National Hotel (from $ 180) in Newcastle West. It is the closest to the Newcastle Interchange Light Rail Stop when you are on the train of Sydney. The rooms are tight, but people rave about the beds.
Rydges Newcastle (from 200 US dollars) is a bit old, but the rooms are spacious and are located directly at the harbor. The ships of the shaking of shaking glide past your window, which blows on this distinctive horn, and the path to the beginning of the bathing regional path is right ahead.
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Crystalbrook Kingsley (from $ 234 per night) is located in a mushroom-shaped building that is very architecturally arrested. It has the Rooftop Bar from Romberg, a great restaurant called Roundhouse and a casual bar on the ground floor called Ms. Marys. It is near the Darby Street district.
It is a five-minute ferry to the Stockton Beach Holiday Park (from $ 38 for a non-top campground and $ 214 for a villa) or a good swimmer could make your own way. It is next to Stockton Bight Sand Dunes.
