Receive 15% discount when you mention you are a CRUISE PASSENGER enjoy delicious fresh salads.

Located next to Woolies Metro Supermarket.

Our salads, rice bowls, and rice paper rolls are a combination of Asian-inspired flavours and fresh Aussie ingredients that will have you coming back for more. At Banana Blossom, we take pride in supporting local farmers from far North Queensland, where we get our green papaya, to the organic farms of Victoria, where we source our salad cress mix. Whether you’re craving the cult classic Tokyo Classic, indulging in the super-popular Satay sauce, or seeking the fiery kick of our famous Triple Chilli sauce, our meals guarantee an unforgettable culinary journey for your taste buds.

Hunter Valley Wine & Cellar Door Experience
Try 6 Australian wines for $10 - in store experience without going to the Hunter Valley!
Receive 10 % discount on any 2 bottles purchased and 15% discount on any further purchases.
Shipping within Australia can be arranged for you at an additional charge.

Located behind QT hotel near Woolies Metro

Iconic and historical Customs House is a must see in Newcastle, located a short block away from the NE Shuttle drop off point with views across the harbour.

Customs is offering cruise passengers a $24 lunch special available Wednesday - Fridays

Focusing on Australian, eco-friendly and local creator made products. Come in store to find the latest and greatest of our incredibly talented local creators!

Offering cruise passengers a discount on Coast to Coast branded T-shirts and hoodies. If you are looking for a little piece of Newcaslte to take home with you this is a must visist. A range of Newcastle made and branded items.

Located near Groundfloor Cafe, Kafey Cafe and La Bae Cafe all offering FREE WIFI.

Just mention CRUISE PASSENGER OFFER.

A TASTE OF THE HUNTER VALLEY, WITHOUT LEAVING THE CITY - Located near your NE 2300 shuttle bus drop off point this is a great start to your Newcastle visit.

Visit Pukara Estate and enjoy a complimentary tasting from our range of premium extra virgin olive oils, vinergars and slelected gourment condiments.

0ffering cruise passengers 10% discount any purchase made during your visit. Just mention CRUISE PASSENGER OFFER.

Tower Cinemas is a short stroll from Civic Park and the Art Gallery.

Welcoming cruise passengers with their special "members only" Gold Class ticket price of $21 per person for all Gold Class screenings on cruise days. Just mention you are a CRUISE PASSENGER when purchasing tickets.

Gold Class offers fully reclining chairs with food and drink service delivered directly to your seat, making it a great way for visitors to relax and enjoy a movie in air conditioned comfort whilst visiting Newcaslte. The cinema has been recently refurbished in its original 1970's style style.

Minutes from the Tower Cinemas and a short stroll to Civic Park.
Step back in time to Newcastle's biggest bar and dining destination set within a historic former Methodist theatre in the heart of the CBD.
Candlelight, vintage details and old-world elegance create a setting that feels intimate, theatrical and just a little unexpected.
The menu takes its cues from provincial Europe, designed for long lunches, leisurely dinners and sharing over another bottle of wine.
​Behind the bar, classic cocktails sit alongside one of Australia’s largest collections of whisky, gin and wine.

We welcome cruise passengers to Newcastle and offer 10% discount just mention CRUISE PASSENGER OFFER.

Located a short stroll to Newcastle Beach, east end hub is a cafe & restaurant in Newcastle's beautiful East End. Focusing on local, fresh seasonal produce with great coffee & service.

Our menu is created by our executive Chef and Owner - Anthony Kocon. Our food is locally sourced, fresh and innovative food - prepared by our fantastic team of award winning chefs. We have a lot of gluten free options on our menus and our chefs cook everything to order.

We have a wonderful light, spacious and airey location in Newcastle's beautiful East End, with a large Al fresco dining space.

We welcome cruise passengers with a 10% discount just mention CRUISE PASSENGER OFFER

Just moments from Newcastle Beach, Moor brings together Mediterranean inspired flavours, specialty coffee and local Hunter Valley wines. From a leisurely brunch to house baked treats or sunset cocktails and shared plates, every meal is designed to be fresh and welcoming.

We wold like to welcome cruise passengers to Newcaslte with 10% discount just mention CRUISE PASSENGER OFFER.

Welcome to Newcastle – CorEat Cruise Passenger Offer
Enjoy a complimentary glass of Hunter Valley wine when dining at CorEat.

Please mention the Cruise Passenger Offer when making a booking so we can prepare accordingly.

Short Description:
CorEat brings together modern Australian cuisine, Korean flair and local produce for a unique Newcastle dining experience.

Newcastle International Short Film Festival or NiSFF is the most prestigious film event in Newcastle. Now in its 9 th year, NiSFF shows great short films from all around the world and the 2026 edition will be no different. Screened over 2 nights on Friday 20 & Sat 21 Nov 2026 with different films each night NiSFF offers great concessions and keeps admission prices reasonable. NiSFF promises a great night out.

TICKETS AT EVENTBRITE AND TRYBOOKINGS

NiSFF BRINGS THE WORLD TO NEWCASTLE AND TAKES NEWCASTLE TO THE WORLD.

In collaboration with Bar Romeo, we present: Novocastrian Vol. III
Saturday 24 October • 6pm-12am
Bar Romeo, Darby Street
Lineup:
Brick Head
CASHNASH
ENA
GladYouCame
Noprol
This is a free event. We would love to see you there:)

One night only. Newcastle's iconic Tower Cinemas, reimagined for an all-ages, ‘90s-horror-inspired takeover. Maple's bringing a dramatic headline set with full production, alongside a stacked local lineup of Newcastle’s finest young bands featuring Trophy Wyfe, Filthy E and the Clean Teens, and Bardvarkk.

Secure tickets early so you don’t miss out.

Step into one of Newcastle’s most distinctive high tea experiences with Bartholomew’s exclusive Hendrick’s Gin High Tea.

Indulge in a refined afternoon of sweet and savoury high tea selections, thoughtfully curated and perfectly paired with Hendrick’s premium gin and signature cocktails.

Expect beautifully presented tiers, expertly balanced flavours, and cocktails designed to elevate every bite.

Perfect for celebrations, birthdays, girls’ afternoons or simply an excuse to indulge — this is high tea with a sophisticated twist.

Set within Bartholomew’s elegant surrounds, enjoy a relaxed yet luxurious experience where classic tradition meets modern indulgence.

Enjoy an evening discovering the principal collection of Old Kempton Distillery, with a take home bottle of Old Stables.
Old Kempton Distillery was founded by a group of friends who shared a love of whisky and a belief that matching passionate people with the finest Tasmanian ingredients would naturally yield exceptional results.
Originally established in 2012 as Redlands Estate Distillery, the need to find a new location in 2015 led us up the road to Kempton. It was here that our Cellar Door found its home in the historic Dysart House, with the adjoining paddocks becoming grounds for our new distillery and bond stores!
Head Distiller Rob Tyson will be your host for the evening! The evening includes five whisky tastings with matching canapes and a take home bottle of Old Stables
Date: Wednesday 21st of October, 2026
Time: 6:30pm
Location: The Grand Hotel, 32 Church Street, Newcastle, NSW, 2300

Join us at Wester Gallery as we welcome Sophia Flegg for her upcoming exhibition.
Sophia is an artist, mural painter and poet who has been making and exhibiting work since the early 2000s. Her work is bold, raw, full of personality - bringing together acrylic, ink, aerosol, found objects, old notes and pencil on paper.
There’s a lot going on in Sophia’s work. People, dogs, muscle cars, Australian culture, relationships, mental health, politics, memories and the everyday all find their way into the paintings. Nothing feels too polished or carefully behaved, and that's part of what makes the work so good.
Sophia has spent years making art in and around Newcastle, Melbourne and Sydney, from gallery exhibitions to murals, album artwork and public art projects. She sees art as a way of bringing people together and making a place feel like its own.
This new body of work has been made during a particularly difficult period for Sophia, after her home and studio were destroyed by fire last year. She has continued working from a makeshift studio on the floor of a garage.
We're looking forward to bringing these works into Wester and sharing them with you.
Opening Reception
Friday 16 October
6pm - 8pm
Wester Gallery, 39 Bolton Newcastle
Free entry. Everyone welcome.
Exhibition catalogue available by request: info@wester.gallery

Newcastle East is bringing the cellar door to the city.

Brought to you by Newcastle East 2300 Precinct, City Cellar Door is a brand new wine tasting trail taking over Newcastle East for one afternoon only.

On Saturday 21 November, spend the afternoon wandering through the precinct as 7 wineries from the Hunter Valley and Orange wine regions pop up across 7 Newcastle East venues, bringing the cellar door experience out of wine country and into the heart of the city.

From 1pm–5pm, discover wines from Margan, Charteris, Mercer, Vinden, De Iuliis, Swinging Bridge and Byrne Farm, along the trail at Humbug, Ship Inn, Customs House, Bartholomews, The Great Northern, The Grain Store and The Grand.

But City Cellar Door isn't just about the wine.

Your $80 ticket includes wine tastings along the trail and a $30 food voucher to use at your choice of any of the seven participating venues on the day, so you can choose where to stop, settle in and make an afternoon of it.

You'll also discover a Pukara Estate Olive Oil tasting, with a $10 Pukara Estate voucher included in your ticket to spend on the day.

And at The Grain Store, Mercer Wines will team up with East End Ice Creamery for a special wine and ice cream pairing. East End Ice Creamery is Newcastle East's award winning local ice creamery, with nine medals to its name, making this one stop you'll definitely want to leave room for.

YOUR TICKET INCLUDES
Tastings from 7 wineries across 7 Newcastle East venues
A $30 food voucher to use at your choice of participating venue
Pukara Estate olive oil tasting + $10 voucher
East End Ice Creamery × Mercer Wines pairing
An afternoon to sip, stroll and discover Newcastle East

Saturday 21 November 2026
1pm–5pm
Newcastle East, NSW

Tickets: $80 per person
Limited tickets available

A meal and Pukara Estate vouchers are valid on Saturday 21 November 2026 only and must be redeemed on the day. Please select your food venue when purchasing tickets.

Gather your friends, choose your route and experience Newcastle East one glass at a time.

City Cellar Door brought to you by Newcastle East 2300 Precinct.

Watch the race in style!

Experience the excitement of the race that stops the nation at NOAH'S on the beach Melbourne Cup Luncheon, set against the stunning backdrop of Newcastle Beach.

Includes:

Glass of Sparkling Wine & Canapes on Arrival
Three Course Luncheon
Four-Hour Beverage Package
Sweeps & Lucky Door Prizes
Prizes for Best Dressed
Live Entertainment by Midnight Black Duo
Live broadcast of the Melbourne Cup on big screens!

2026 Menu

TO START

Shared Entrées

Fresh cooked prawns GF DF (M)
Fresh cooked prawns, finger lime & fish roe dressing

Tuna Crudo GF DF (M)
Tuna crudo, eggplant confit, red vinegar, aromatics, nori crisp

Lotus & Taro GF DF VE
Crispy lotus and taro root chips dusted with umami spice, served with fermented aioli.

Italian artisan preserved meats GFO DF
Selection of artisan preserved meats, olives, house pickles, grissini, potato crisps

Halloumi GF
Fried halloumi, hot honey, native greens

TO SHARE

Sourdough
Sourdough with whipped anchovy and chicken jus butter.

Organic Chicken GF DF
Chermoula marinated organic chicken, butter beans, herb oil, confit leek jus.

Market Fish GF DF
Market fish, scallop butter sauce, roe, fennel pickled mussels.

Vegetarian main option available on request

Shared Sides

Fingerling Potato Confit GF DF
Fingerling potatoes confit in beef tallow, garlic, glazed in beef jus and fresh herbs.

Rocket & Peas GF
Rocket, peas and mint with ricotta and ruby grapefruit vinaigrette.

Baby lettuce & Herb Salad GF VE
Baby lettuce, radish, fresh herbs and lemon dressing.

TO FINISH

Selection of cheese, wafers, muscatels, pastes

Chocolate & Macadamia Tart
Whipped chocolate, roasted macadamia, miso caramel

Tea & Coffee
Freshly brewed tea & coffee to finish.

Dietary Requirements will be catered for. | Please advise your dietaries on the booking form.
All seating at party tables of 10. | Full Payment is required at the time of Booking.

Every Thursday night from 5pm 🎱

Join us every Thursday for our weekly pool comp - a fun, social night whether you’re a seasoned player or just keen for a casual game. With Young Henrys prizes up for grabs plus GNH gift cards to be won, it’s the perfect excuse to line up a few shots, enjoy a drink and get amongst the friendly competition.

Newcastle Pop-Up

9th and 10th Of September

A world-first, two-hour tattoo-inspired workshop on synthetic skin. No experience needed. You take your piece home.

No Experience Neccessary
All Gear Included
Welcoming Solos to Large Groups
The Great Northern Hotel | Newcastle
Food & Drink at the Bar (No-BYO)
A chance to win a $100 prize pack from Tattoo Numbing Cream Co

HOT CHOCOLATE - Live At The Station
Sunday 18th October 2026
The Station Newcastle
Corner Scott Street & Watt Street, Newcastle NSW 2300

GENR8 Entertainment & NEWFM Presents: Live At The Station
Featuring: Hot Chocolate starring Kennie Simon, The Radiators, DV8, The Filthy Animals & The Viper Creek Band

Get ready for an unforgettable day of legendary live music as Live At The Station brings together five incredible acts spanning soul, rock and country.

Experience Kennie Simon – 16 Years of Hits with Hot Chocolate, celebrating one of Britain's most iconic soul bands. Sing along to timeless classics including You Sexy Thing, Every 1's a Winner, Emma and It Started with a Kiss, performed by the man who has fronted Hot Chocolate for more than 16 years.

Joining the lineup are Australian rock legends The Radiators, celebrating over 45 years of classic hits after more than 6,000 live shows and sharing stages with AC/DC, INXS and Rose Tattoo.

Newcastle favourites DV8 continue to deliver their signature high-energy blues-rock sound after decades as one of the Hunter's most enduring original rock bands.

Also appearing are The Filthy Animals, Australia's ultimate rock supergroup, featuring current and former members of Dragon, Mondo Rock, Wolfmother, Choirboys, The Superjesus, John Butler Trio, Savage Garden and many more, performing the biggest rock anthems of all time.

Rounding out the lineup are The Viper Creek Band, one of Australia's premier country-rock acts. With a #1 ARIA Country Album, over 10 million streams and multiple Golden Guitar and CMC Award nominations, they're renowned for their electrifying live performances.

Don't miss this spectacular celebration of classic music featuring some of Australia's finest live performers—all on one incredible stage.

We welcome all guests and offer full wheelchair accessibility throughout the venue. Designed to ensure a comfortable and accessible experience for everyone.

Food vans & fully licensed bars onsite.
Please note: this is an Outdoor Concert. Please bring a fold-up camping chair should you wish to sit down.

Persons under 18 must be accompanied by a responsible adult, and purchase a general entry ticket.
*Persons under 18 years must be accompanied by a responsible adult.
*Any person, including a minor, causing a disruption may be asked to leave.
*It is an offence for minors to purchase and/or consume alcohol.
*It is an offence to purchase liquor for, or to supply liquor to a minor.
*Persons supplying liquor to minors will be reported to Police. Penalties apply under relevant legislation.

*** NO REFUNDS***SHOWS ARE RAIN, HAIL, SHINE.
Please NOTE: Patrons under 18 years of age must be accompanied by a guardian over the age of 18.

$10 Cocktails - Every Friday From 5pm

ALL Night Friday, this ain’t no happy hour!

Kick off your weekend with a BANG with our $10 cocktail special. Every Friday from 5pm til late.

Choice Of Aperol Spritz, Tommy’s Marg, Apple Pie or Hugo Spritz'

$10 Cocktails - Every Friday From 5pm

ALL Night Friday, this ain’t no happy hour!

Kick off your weekend with a BANG with our $10 cocktail special. Every Friday from 5pm til late.

Choice Of Aperol Spritz, Tommy’s Marg, Apple Pie or Hugo Spritz'

A monumental solo project by internationally recognised, Newcastle-based contemporary artist Izabela Pluta as part of a major international co-commission with TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art, Poland, and presented with key partner New Annual Festival.

Cavitation unfolds across water, sound and fractured cartographies, examining how systems of orientation fail under pressure, repetition and displacement. For Izabela Pluta, place is always relational–through movement, migration and encounter. As a child, Pluta left Poland in 1986. This departure marked a formative moment in the artist’s life, reflected throughout Cavitation as a tectonic shift that reorganised geographies and belonging. Rather than a biographical account, the project approaches mapping through notions of erasure and containment that attempt to fix land and water through fixed coordinates.

Developed as a co-commission between partnering institutions in Australia and Poland, Cavitation moves between the port towns of Newcastle and Szczecin. At the Newcastle Canoe Pool, a once-legible concrete relief map of the world was broken apart by a storm in the 1970s. Its rubble was removed and dumped in the harbour, contributing to local myths of the movement of people and materials from around the globe. By casting the pool’s fractured edges and recording underwater acoustics while swimming, Pluta explores the Canoe Pool’s conditions of loss, erosion, and discard. In the Baltic context in Szczecin, Pluta has collaborated with scientists at the Institute of Oceanology PAN in Sopot, using echo-sounders to translate seabed, bubbles and anthropogenic noise into acoustic images.

Circling back to the Pluta family’s migration, the artist has created a major tapestry in collaboration with the Australian Tapestry Workshop, incorporating spectrographic solar data from 11 May 1986, re-scaling geographical motions at an interplanetary scale. Using thread dyed using a unique process of cyanotype, the tapestry has been coloured by registering sunlight in Warsaw, forty years after her childhood departure from Poland.

Across photography, sculpture, sound, moving image and textile, Cavitation presents a constellation of material forms to create sensory encounters and bodily echoes of oceanic movements and planetary orbits, where water becomes both atmospheric field and temporal force.

The project has been awarded a Creative Australia Major Commission grant and is supported by Create NSW and the City of Newcastle.

Skip the Queue and order ahead using our online platform Chewzie!

Don't want to order on the platform?
Call the venue on 02 4077 3910 or email Fran@gnhotel.com.au

Kitchen Hours:
Monday - Friday 12pm - 2:30pm / 5pm - 9:00pm
Saturday 12pm - 9:30pm
Sunday 12pm - 9:00pm

Open Mic W/ Phoenix Pritchard - Every Sunday from 4:30pm

First time performers get a free drink on us!

Bookings Recommended

Wrap up the weekend with our Sunday Open Mic Night - a relaxed, welcoming space for local musicians, performers and music lovers alike. Whether you’re keen to jump on stage or just settle in with a drink and enjoy the talent, it’s the perfect laid-back Sunday vibe with live entertainment and great company.

Be apart of Newy East's best Tipping Comp

NRL / AFL / UFC competitions

NRL - $25 Entry - 1st drink on us and prizes to be won!

See sports bar staff to enter

Newcastle’s home of live entertainment.

Every Sunday afternoon from 4:30pm.

Wrap up the weekend with our Sunday Open Mic Night - a relaxed, welcoming space for local musicians, performers and music lovers alike. Whether you’re keen to jump on stage or just settle in with a drink and enjoy the talent, it’s the perfect laid-back Sunday vibe with live entertainment and great company.

Thursday nights have it all!

Every Thursday you can enjoy $25 Rump Steaks or $30 Scotch Fillets served with Chips and Salad and your choice of sauce.

Pool & darts are free for all and our weekly Poker Night is a must for all card fiends with a $25 buy in and guaranteed $500 prize pool starting from 8pm!