A Day-By-Day Guide to Newcastle: Tuesday

Are you one of those people that find themselves wondering how you got to know so much seemingly useless information? Then Tuesday nights at Sunnyside Tavern are your night to shine! Trivia kicks off at 7pm with prizes on offer for the team who proves to be the most knowledgable of them all. Keep that brain power strong and grab some $13 lamb cutlets for dinner.

Why not Play for your Pint and Sing for your Supper at The Great Northern on Tuesday nights? That's right, one of Newcastle's favourite open mic nights lets you up on stage with any instrument for half an hour, and you get a free meal and drink for performing! If you have a bit of stage fright never fear, you can just revel in Newcastle's up & coming talent while enjoying $8 jugs & $10 steaks.

Further down Hunter St you can find The Clarendon Hotel, which is a hotspot for cheap eats on a Tuesday. $10 Tuesdays offers pizzas, pastas and cocktails (which are amazing) for $10 each, lunch and dinner!

It's all happening at the Hamilton Station Hotel on Tuesday nights. The pool competition kicks off from 7.30pm and there's a schooner raffle which gets drawn at 8pm - pool and potential free beer? Sign me up! Plus for all you political enthusiasts, the function room hosts Politics in the Pub every third Tuesday of the month from 6.30pm.

Head to the Nags on a Tuesday night for pizza & pasta for just $9.90! Fantastic food for under They also boast $10 steak lunches Mon-Fri, so on Tuesdays you could score lunch and dinner for less than $20.

Hola amigos! Tuesday night is Spanish night at the Burwood! Grab a jug of Sangria for only $12 and then indulge in some delicious paella for just $15. You will be guaranteed to be yelling Buenas Noches as you leave.

So when you're a bit light on with the cash situation, you probably think that anything seafood is off limits? Well thanks to Soho on Darby, this is no longer because on Tuesday nights they are offering Surf N Turf for just $15! Add a $6 cocktail with that & you'll be asking yourself, what economic crisis? Also remember that any day of the week you can grab a big brekky for just $10 (perfect way to get over all those $6 cocktails...).

On Tuesday nights, the underground room at The Grand plays host to a jazz night presented by the Newcastle Improvised Music Association (NIMA). For just $10, you can see fantastic local and touring jazz performers between 7:30 - 11pm. As if that wasn't value enough, upstairs at the restaurant, you can get a cheap feed by selecting from their $10 menu options.