A drinker spent £250 on a bottle of Cristal Champagne - in the Black Garter.
And the big spender splashed the cash on the bubbly in the MORNING.
The luxury Champagne is usually sipped by rappers and Hollywood moguls at glitzy celebrity bashes.
But a bottle was sold at the budget Newcastle boozer - the spiritual home of drag queen Ophelia Balls - on Clayton Street.
The sale happened in the same week a topless thug was jailed for biting one of the pub's bouncers.
Neither bosses or the pub's operator Stonegate wished to comment on the Champagne sale.
But ChronicleLive understands the £250 bottle of the Louis Roederer fizz was snapped up at 11.48am on Sunday, June 2.
Cristal was initially created in the 19th century for tsar Alexandra II amid a bubbly boom in Russia.
However, it enjoyed a resurgence in the 90s after hip-hop stars like Jay Z, Biggy Smalls and P Diddy mentioned it in lyrics.
Earlier this month, bare-chested brute Alan Conway was jailed for two years for the savage attack on the venue's door supervisor James Hilbert.
Good Samaritan Mr Hilbert was attacked after coming to Conway's aid after a spat with a group of youths.
The attack left Conway's mouth covered in blood and his victim in hospital - just hours after being told his young son would die.
