Places to drink and relax in Newport

Award-winning Tiny Rebel Brewing Company finally opened its first bar in its home city of Newport and offered the first 100 through the doors a free pint to celebrate. The company, which owns Urban Tap House on Cardiff’s Westgate Street, first confirmed rumours it was branching out back in September 2015, following a stint running a successful pop up pub in Newport city centre.

Dubbed as a night club in the spirit in the infamous TJ's, Slipping Jimmy's certainly apes that former rock and roll watering hole's DIY aesthetic. Decked out for free by using nothing but recycled pallets from building sites, the owners of the new High Street venue came up with the idea after stumbling across a bar with a similar decor in Belgium.

And talking of TJ's, six years after legendary nightspot closed its owner’s grandson has opened a bar in tribute to the legendary venue. Ashley Sicolo hopes to recreate some of the atmosphere of the Newport punk club, run by late grandfather John Sicolo, with a new boozer called El Sieco’s.

As much a music museum as it is a bar, its walls are plastered with old music posters, while cocktails like Docks on the Rocks, Port and Proud, Bettws Bhangra, and the J Frosty Square pay homage to the unreconstructed city of old.