Positive feedback stacks up
A new Day of the Dead theme bar has been proving a hit with customers with its menu of rum and tequila cocktails, colourful artwork, florals and neon skulls.
Rhumba, which has opened upstairs in The Land of Green Ginger in Tynemouth, is celebrating a successful launch. Since its opening – which coincided with the village’s Mouth of the Tyne festival – its business has already included a booking for a 21st birthday party and the whole venue was hired for another private function.
The three men behind the venture – Adam Blenkinsop, Richard Ong and Gareth Massey – are out to help create “a mini Stack” within the Green Ginger arcade, capturing an atmosphere similar to the now-demolished container village in Newcastle with its mix of traders.
They are keen to raise awareness of all that’s on offer inside the former church in Tynemouth’s Front
Street, where the opening of Rhumba follows hot on the heels of the launch, in July, of cocktail and coffee bar Atelier.
The new additions join a range of other independents there, from bars and restaurants to shops.
Among them is wine bar Vineyard72; pizza parlour Crust Social; gin bar Alfie & Fin’s and the Cubana Coffee and Tapas House.
Now Rhumba, whose Day of the Dead decor has a neon sugar skull as its centrepiece, is adding to the mix with the likes of rum cocktails and two for £12 deals. It also has Brewdog pumps on the bar.
The bar manager Alex Colligan said: “With the first weekend being a success it really has given us lots of reasons to be positive. The customer feedback has been great on our cocktails, the attitude and hospitality of our staff and the venue vibes as a whole. It really makes us look forward to bringing a ‘Stack-esque’ experience to Front Street. You can stay in one place all night and get the best drinks and food Tynemouth has to offer.”