Best pub you've ever been to
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Don't move this to Food & Drink because it's not that kind of thread.
Put simply - what are the best pubs you've ever been to? Maybe we should Wiki this and turn it into a PH Good Pub Guide, for whenever you're out and about and fancy a pint in somewhere that isn't awful.
My choice? Close-run thing between the Wasdale Head Inn (maybe it's a side-effect of what you'll inevitably have done to get there - it's at the foot of Scafell Pike, the only pub for several miles and if you want to access it by road you'd better have a Land-Rover - but the food and beer at that place have that 'this is the best sausage and mash on God's green Earth' quality, especially if you've just spent all day in the mountains)
- and The Maltings in York. Every pub desperate for an 'eclectic' feel would kill to have its atmosphere. A ceiling made of old doors, tin wartime signs with bomb damage, a wall plastered in used train tickets from the past five decades, and some of the finest scrumpy known to man. If anyone ever decided it needed a 'makeover' or turning into a gastropub, I'm sure there's something within York's laws that says they can still be shot with a crossbow and hanged from Lendal Bridge or suchlike.
Over to the PH massive...
Put simply - what are the best pubs you've ever been to? Maybe we should Wiki this and turn it into a PH Good Pub Guide, for whenever you're out and about and fancy a pint in somewhere that isn't awful.
My choice? Close-run thing between the Wasdale Head Inn (maybe it's a side-effect of what you'll inevitably have done to get there - it's at the foot of Scafell Pike, the only pub for several miles and if you want to access it by road you'd better have a Land-Rover - but the food and beer at that place have that 'this is the best sausage and mash on God's green Earth' quality, especially if you've just spent all day in the mountains)
- and The Maltings in York. Every pub desperate for an 'eclectic' feel would kill to have its atmosphere. A ceiling made of old doors, tin wartime signs with bomb damage, a wall plastered in used train tickets from the past five decades, and some of the finest scrumpy known to man. If anyone ever decided it needed a 'makeover' or turning into a gastropub, I'm sure there's something within York's laws that says they can still be shot with a crossbow and hanged from Lendal Bridge or suchlike.
Over to the PH massive...
haven't been there since I finished Uni over a year ago now 
The Venice Cafe in St Louis. Very much like the "eclectic" thing you mention, but raised to the Nth degree. It was originally someone's house but walls and ceilings were knocked about and covered in mosaics, statues, posters, sharks, dildos, mirrors... Plus good music.
http://www.thevenicecafe.com/
For a Proper (capital P) pub, Norwich has an excellent selection, Micawbers on a music night, The buck inn does excellent food, as does the Brick Kiln in Little Plumstead. The belgian Monk has an array of delicious beer and the food is great. Talking about food, Umberto's is a proper family-run Italian. Doesn't look very fancy, but great food and when they're not busy, Umberto comes out for a chat.
Go Go Fruit cafe in Varese, Italy does great cocktails and has a kareoke run by a man that looks like a walrus.
The Newcastle Arms in Retford used to be my old haunt. It was s
t, but it was ours and we loved it. They had a band on friday nights, Worthington's was £1.50 a pint and they didn't ask for ID.
http://www.thevenicecafe.com/
For a Proper (capital P) pub, Norwich has an excellent selection, Micawbers on a music night, The buck inn does excellent food, as does the Brick Kiln in Little Plumstead. The belgian Monk has an array of delicious beer and the food is great. Talking about food, Umberto's is a proper family-run Italian. Doesn't look very fancy, but great food and when they're not busy, Umberto comes out for a chat.
Go Go Fruit cafe in Varese, Italy does great cocktails and has a kareoke run by a man that looks like a walrus.
The Newcastle Arms in Retford used to be my old haunt. It was s
t, but it was ours and we loved it. They had a band on friday nights, Worthington's was £1.50 a pint and they didn't ask for ID.Very, very difficult question as I've been to so many pubs in the last 30 odd years. However, my current favourite is the Hand in Heart in Nottingham: http://www.thehandandheart.co.uk/
It has a cave at the back, serves brilliant food, loads of different beers and has live music on regularly.
It has a cave at the back, serves brilliant food, loads of different beers and has live music on regularly.
Actually, thinking of great music, Corbieres in Manchester has one of the best jukeboxes I've ever encountered. It's underground too (feels like it's been carved out of the rock), so mobile phone signals are all-but impossible to get down there, so people have these things called 'conversations' instead.
Oh, and the New Oxford in Salford. Dodgy location (right outside the Magistrates Court on a street that seems to be half-demolished), but my God, the beer!
Oh, and the New Oxford in Salford. Dodgy location (right outside the Magistrates Court on a street that seems to be half-demolished), but my God, the beer!
Longhorn Bar, Whistler Bike Park, Canada.
Great beer (well, it's very cold which is good in mid-summer) lots of greasy but top quality food and insanely attractive waitresses wearing tiny outfits on hand every day, except Wednesday afternoons when they all enter the weekly downhill race and all but destroy all of the punters.
Great beer (well, it's very cold which is good in mid-summer) lots of greasy but top quality food and insanely attractive waitresses wearing tiny outfits on hand every day, except Wednesday afternoons when they all enter the weekly downhill race and all but destroy all of the punters.
Oh, and the New Oxford in Salford. Dodgy location (right outside the Magistrates Court on a street that seems to be half-demolished), but my God, the beer!
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Bricklayers Arms Ordsal, Nice Clientelle
The pub at the bottom of Liverpool Road, opposite NMSI is a fair decent watering hole too
I'll vote for the Wateredge inn between Ambleside and Bowness in the lake district.
I cannot vouch for the food as I've never tried it but it has a view that will keep you there all day.
http://www.wateredgeinn.co.uk/photo-gallery/2012/1...
I cannot vouch for the food as I've never tried it but it has a view that will keep you there all day.
http://www.wateredgeinn.co.uk/photo-gallery/2012/1...
Dear T,
The Bridge, Topsham - same family owned for 100+ years, still lots of nooks and crannies rather than open plan. Real ales from a menu at a hatch, barkeep wonders off to backroom to tap cask. Pasty/sandwich/crisps basic bar food.
Applecross Inn, Applecross - the journey, the view, the seafood. A bit busy these days but that adds to the charm. Don't expect a quiet tete a tete. You have to sit and chat with others to fit in
regards,
Jet
Jessicus said:
Check out the four sticky posts at the top of the forum that you don't want this moved to.
Notwithstanding J's excellent suggestion my highlights are:The Bridge, Topsham - same family owned for 100+ years, still lots of nooks and crannies rather than open plan. Real ales from a menu at a hatch, barkeep wonders off to backroom to tap cask. Pasty/sandwich/crisps basic bar food.
Applecross Inn, Applecross - the journey, the view, the seafood. A bit busy these days but that adds to the charm. Don't expect a quiet tete a tete. You have to sit and chat with others to fit in
regards,
Jet
anothernameitist said:
Oh, and the New Oxford in Salford. Dodgy location (right outside the Magistrates Court on a street that seems to be half-demolished), but my God, the beer!
Bricklayers Arms Ordsal, Nice ClientelleThe pub at the bottom of Liverpool Road, opposite NMSI is a fair decent watering hole too
jet_noise said:
Dear T,
The Bridge, Topsham - same family owned for 100+ years, still lots of nooks and crannies rather than open plan. Real ales from a menu at a hatch, barkeep wonders off to backroom to tap cask. Pasty/sandwich/crisps basic bar food.
Applecross Inn, Applecross - the journey, the view, the seafood. A bit busy these days but that adds to the charm. Don't expect a quiet tete a tete. You have to sit and chat with others to fit in
regards,
Jet
I never go on the food & drink forum though...Jessicus said:
Check out the four sticky posts at the top of the forum that you don't want this moved to.
Notwithstanding J's excellent suggestion my highlights are:The Bridge, Topsham - same family owned for 100+ years, still lots of nooks and crannies rather than open plan. Real ales from a menu at a hatch, barkeep wonders off to backroom to tap cask. Pasty/sandwich/crisps basic bar food.
Applecross Inn, Applecross - the journey, the view, the seafood. A bit busy these days but that adds to the charm. Don't expect a quiet tete a tete. You have to sit and chat with others to fit in
regards,
Jet
Massively improved I'm sure when you have weather like this but this place is pretty awesome!
The Watering Hole - Perranporth (Cornwall) - It's the UK's only Bar on a beach.
http://www.the-wateringhole.co.uk/
The Watering Hole - Perranporth (Cornwall) - It's the UK's only Bar on a beach.
http://www.the-wateringhole.co.uk/
With my "real ale" hat on (I don't drink anything else in pubs, or go to one to eat) and in no particular order of preference.
- The Harp, Chandros Place, London
- Kays Bar, Edinburgh
- The Pump Room, Edinburgh
- Cafe Royal, Edinburgh
- Evening Star, Brighton
- Brewers Arms, Lewes
- Gardeners Arms, Lewes
- Sussex Ox, Milton Street, Sussex
- Laughing Fish, Isfield, Sussex
I could go on.....
- The Harp, Chandros Place, London
- Kays Bar, Edinburgh
- The Pump Room, Edinburgh
- Cafe Royal, Edinburgh
- Evening Star, Brighton
- Brewers Arms, Lewes
- Gardeners Arms, Lewes
- Sussex Ox, Milton Street, Sussex
- Laughing Fish, Isfield, Sussex
I could go on.....
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