snorri
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- East coast, up a bit.
The Baltic Fleet Pub in Liverpool, I really thought all pubs offering their standard of service had been wiped of the face of the earth years ago.
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The Narrow Boat in Skipton isn't bad now they've refurbished the smelly toilets.
thanks for that.Happily for beer drinkers the few surviving pubs are serving quite decent ale nowadays as long as you can find one where they are serving enough for the barrel to be no older than a couple of days, so that the beer is fresh and bright-tasting.
For food though the situation is dire, all pubs buy their food in microwave-ready portions from Brakes, 3663, Food Service and around here, Ribble Farm Foods. The kitchen technician just microwaves the portion, sticks it under the grill for a few minutes then drops it on a cold plate, where it sits for 10 minutes until one of the serving kids thinks to pick it up and bring it to your table. The sure giveaway is when the selection of vegetables comes in identical white china bowls and is usually undercooked.
Some of them do act a bit guilty when i ride past. They tend to put their cigarette behind their back and look down at the floor,as if they've been caught doing something naughty.That's why they are standing in the doorway; it's THEIR territory and you are the weird alien cycling past looking as if you actually take exercise and don't drink yourself into a stupor every evening. That makes you a stranger and automatically suspect of something or other.
The Baltic Fleet Pub in Liverpool, I really thought all pubs offering their standard of service had been wiped of the face of the earth years ago.
My local has five taps, generally with a pretty good selection of guest ales on four - Greene King 'IPA' being the one permanent (yes, the inverted commas are there for a reason). One day this summer, only one of the non-GK taps was on - a porter. Next day, the same - and again the next. I was seriously considering changing pubs when I walked in the fourth evening to find they'd brought one of the other taps into service. About time, thinks I, and walk up to find they've added - a brown ale. What publican looks at a range consisting of eurobeer and porter, in the middle of the summer, and thinks: you know, what this pub needs is a nice brown ale.As for disappointments, places that have five or six handpumps, with everything other than Doombar (or other serviceable, but unexciting brown beer) "off" on the day you walk in would be up there pretty high for me.
Did it have a flat roof?
A couple of Christmases ago there was a boxing day evening, IYSWIM, excursion to the local Weatherspoons. One of our party was wearing a bobble hat. The bouncer requested that he take it off before entry was permitted. The hat wearer complied, because he's nice like that. After all, he is my Dad, and was 87 at the time.The first sign of a disappointing pub is bouncers on the door. Such establishments are best avoided.
The second sign of a disappointing pub is when one of the bouncers says "Sorry mate, you're too casual"