University Metro station was opened in 2002 along with the Sunderland extension and was one of the main reasons for Nexus expanding down to Sunderland in the first place. It is also classed as a city centre station (along with Park Lane and Sunderland) despite it predominately servicing the university’s city campus.
It would be sheer madness to have a metro station so close to a university that wasn’t equal distance to a good student pub. And if we’re talking about good student pubs then look no further than The Stumble Inn. Exit the metro station from the campus side of the station and double back on yourself onto Chester Road, turn left and you’ll see The Stumble Inn across the other side of the street. Incidentally, being pub 5 on a metro pub crawl that day, stumble in is pretty much exactly what we did.
Naturally with it being about 5pm on a Saturday night and i’m sure all the local students were still in bed sleeping off last nights hangovers, it was relatively quite and we seemed to be the youngest people in there however were greeted with a warm welcome and there was plenty of comfy places to sit. As you walk in the main doors the bar is directly in front of you with some booths to sit at to the left and a larger more spacious dining room style area to the right.
Drinks wise, remember it’s a student bar so there are loads of ‘2 jagerbombs for a fiver’ type offers and the only beer they had was John Smiths (although had more crafty stuff in bottles) couldn’t fault the wine though which was reasonably priced but tasted more high end (it was nice and cold too!). We weren’t eating on this occasion but the food menu did look lovely and from the food we saw come out the portions were decent. Overall it reminded me a lot of The Lonsdale in West Jesmond (which I highly rated). I’m sure if this was my local we’d be down most weekends to check out the live music.
Contact:
Address: 88 Chester Road, Sunderland SR2 7PR
Tel: 0191 567 5292
Find out where we’ve been on our metro pub adventure here
