smutchin
Cat 6 Racer
- Location
- The Red Enclave
The GPG often doesn't consider beer quality at all. To be fair to the GBG, I've had far more disappointing experiences with the GPG.
What makes a good pub?
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The GPG often doesn't consider beer quality at all. To be fair to the GBG, I've had far more disappointing experiences with the GPG.
derrick
The Glue that binds us together.
- Location
- On the edge of London
Good beer,freindly bar staff. no nobbers, good food and cheap, That be our local Wetherspoon.
Our "local" (the Plough) USED to be a really nice pub. Proper country pub styling and good beers.
We would go every Friday after work plus other random visits.
Fridays always had a good crowd.
Then it became part of a big group who came along and ripped the heart out of it........ changed all the seating.....the bar area has those tall chairs that you have to climb up to sit on. The 'lounge' area is now just for dining (and the food is typical pub chain cr*p).
So.......that is what (IMO) makes a poor pub so I imagine the opposite would make a good one.
We would go every Friday after work plus other random visits.
Fridays always had a good crowd.
Then it became part of a big group who came along and ripped the heart out of it........ changed all the seating.....the bar area has those tall chairs that you have to climb up to sit on. The 'lounge' area is now just for dining (and the food is typical pub chain cr*p).
So.......that is what (IMO) makes a poor pub so I imagine the opposite would make a good one.
A lot of the pubs in central Brighton are proper old Victorian buildings with largely untouched, beautiful exteriors but have had the softness ripped out of the interiors, leaving a somewhat homogeneous, noisy, stripped pine look.
They're filled to the gunwhales and serve great beers so it's hard to knock the business model.
They're filled to the gunwhales and serve great beers so it's hard to knock the business model.
kevin_cambs_uk
Guru
- Location
- Near Cambridge
Swan and Angel in St Ives, its brand new!
Tin Pot
Guru
Clientele.
Tin Pot
Guru
I am a Wetherspoons faithful regular but to call their food good is to undermine all your credibility.
derrick
The Glue that binds us together.
- Location
- On the edge of London
It ain't Cordon Bleu. but i have never had a bad meal in there.
srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
If only the Moon had been Under Water it would have been perfect.
Not only is that a lovely bit of writing - the right mix of fact and fantasy, analysis and prejudice couched in beautiful prose - but (if you mentally remove the traces of 1940s sexism) he's very nearly perfectly right.
Especially about the ambience. A pub needs to be noisy enough to be welcoming but quiet enough to make conversation possible at a conversational volume. I'm taking good beer as a given - and a good range of different styles, not just a wall of lagers or hop monster pales. There should be something for everyone.
OP
OP
- Location
- London
Thanks for that kevin. should have cycled on to there next time I was your way rather than the pig awful experience of getting me and the loaded bike onto a Virgin/Stagecoach East Coast Line at Peterborough - there in plenty of time, the train wasn't, pig getting the bike on, at London I was blamed for making their train late!
I see it has an outside area - do you happen to know if there is an external entry (ie not through the pub) to that that you could use to take a fully loaded tourer in?
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
- A decent selection of beers.
- Staff that aren't apathetic arse-holes.
- Nice beer garden.
- Good affordable food.
- Clean toilets.
The Apothecary in Lancaster seems to be a popular pub amongst my friends and acquaintances, yet it ticks none of the above.
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It’s a bit like the US Supreme Court definition of porn - I know it when I see it.
