[Closed] Three cheers for your local!

1. Well trained first aiders with  experience of stab wounds

2. Defibrillator on the wall outside the door.

3. Handily located 3 minutes ambulance ride from A&E.

I understand they also sell beer and suchlike.

1. A flat roof

2. A selection of fizzy lagers

3. Bar staff that sell drugs

1 - it's within walking distance
2 - it sells a wide range of excellently kept beers, all from local breweries
3 - it's within stumbling distance

1. Within walking distance

2. Backroad or over field routes available depending on muddiness

3. Within staggering home distance

Walking distance. Good prices local beers. Great burger night. Fine coffee and cakes.

Closes this Sunday thanks to shitty wetherspoons.

Screaming kids
Crap food
And er, well it's near to Tesco Express where you can get cheap beer.
I've been in the pub twice.

The Pork Scratchings are as important as the beer. I've become a bit of a beer snob over the years but its nothing compared to my Pork Scratching snobbery.

But my local about typifies it...walking distance, several decent beers on offer, excellent non-branded Pork scratchings that come in a clear in-branded, unmarked bag apart from the best before date, nice bar staff and a set of locals so there are always recognisable faces in there no matter what time of day or night you pop in. Landlord who actually likes beer and is passionate about keeping it and takes pride in it, A separate room for the yoof's to sip their tasteless fizzy lagers, get rowdy and watch football and have the obligatory post football scrap after the match. Us normal folk are in the other half drinking decent beer, munching on decent scratchings. It's my little corner of the world where I can truly get away.

1 - You are made to feel known and welcome by both the staff and regulars even if you don't spend 5 hours a day, 7 days a week in there and have your pay direct transferred into their account like the permanent resident alcoholics.
2 - The beer and food are good enough to beat the offerings of the supermarket of your choice.
3 - The interior or beer garden (depending on season) fixtures and fittings, ambiance and view (this includes the aesthetics of the other punters) is good enough that it makes a pleasant change from your front room/garden (depending on season).

Good local tasty beer,
They have biscuits for the dogs (who love to go to the pub)
They have a real fire in winter.

Excellent, ever-changing, range of local and not so local real ales.
Small, no music or games machines, i.e not to have to shout.
Can bring in your own food.

1- Within walking/cycling distance
2- picturesque setting
3- sells beer

And that's about it. We never Eat there any more as the service is crap, food is variable and overpriced, and as soon as the sun comes out it's swamped with Chavs...

15mins with the top down through the lanes..

Real Ale, multi award winning beer (430 awards to date)

£3.00-£3.40 a pint, does takeaways.

Took me 10 years to be acknowledged at the bar by the surly Owner, the last 14yrs I’ve been treated like a local.

No kids allowed in the Pub, nope not even ones accompanied by an Adult.

Used to serve the best gammon/egg/chips along with a pint (now doesn’t do food)

Paddock behind, orchard to the left, orchard to the right, on the outskirts of one the quintessential Hampshire Villages straight out of “Hampshire Life”

1. Convenient. Walking distance, (if with the missis) or cycling distance.
2. Sensible range and price of booze and food.
3. Welcoming atmosphere for regulars and occasional's alike.

Our local went through a bit of a rough patch when it was turned into a posh food focussed pub in a village which isn't one of the more affluent places around here. That kind of venue does well in a lot of Cheshire, but there wasn't enough clientele close enough. It's back to being a bloody great local pub that serves OK food and has an occasional pub quiz, live music, welcomes dogs in the bar, friendly staff and it's doing a roaring trade because of it!

They have Amstel, Moretti and a small selection of local brews on tap and it's on the way to, and from, the quarry/woods/jumps- hold my beer! Back in our meat-eating days we had the duck with chips, which was nice.

1. Good, but not huge selection of ale, which means the turnover is good so the beer isn't kept on to long.
2. Almost always a pub dog or 2.
3. Enough patrons to feel like you're not rattling around, but quiet enough you can have some time to yourself with your thoughts.

It's also 5 minutes walk away and the staff are awesome too.

1) Eye wateringly expensive, despite being functionally exactly the same as all the other pubs the local brewery owns.

2) Sold as a fancy gastro pub despite having the same menu (apart from the price) as all the other pubs the local brewery owns.

3) Being a bit grubby.

trying to decide which local I like most... but looks like one is coming out on top, not sure if that'll change in winter:

- variable opening times; so is a delight when unexpectedly open
- good local beers, kept well with high turnover
- gardens where the birdsong is wonderful in the evening sun

1 - the view, this isn't quite it but close enough

2 - walking distance but I can swim there if the mood takes me
3 - doesn't do great food but the restaurants next door do (there's 4, I've tried 3, all good)

Fast turnover of beer so the barrel is never stale.

Friendly staff.

Nice fire in winter.

12-14 hand pull real ales (+ 3 ciders) selection changed weekly; CAMRA Northumberland Pub Of The Year fifteen times; proper log fire; walker, cyclist and dog friendly; nice bar staff and friendly locals; less than 3 quid a pint.

And handy for the train.

bikebouy

15mins with the top down through the lanes..

Convertible taxi?

naturist, innit?

Convertible taxi?

Humblebrag

Tats aaaarrrt.

1: It's the only pub in the village.
2:......
3:......

1 No Juke box

2 Good selection of local beers, gin and cider from across the UK.

3 £2.80 a pint

Jealous of these. My dad's just moved town so next time we visit I'll be looking for a new local. I've had a scout around Street view and the nearest is an estate pub (nowt wrong with that) with a sign outside advertising Sky Sport, Sunday roast and karaoke, but no mention of beer 🤔

Great, ever-changing range of beers from all over the country, but predominantly from the south-west, plus a wide range of gin-based drinks. Not that I’m that interested in gin.
Friendly staff and proprietors, who always make us welcome.
Loyalty card
Excellent food.
It’s not within walking distance, but that’s ok, because the mate I go drinking with lives roughly the same distance outside of town, and there’s no pub within an equivalent distance from him.

Have only recently appreciated the absence of a large screen TV.

It means you can go into the pub and not be distracted whilst talking shite. Or maybe I'm just getting old.

Key requirement is the ability to get served at the bar (and sit inside) when you are covered in mud after a sh!tty mid winter ride. Too many tell us to do one when we pitch up, soaking wet, with half of the local hills attached to our backsides. Fair do's to those that let us in.

Linked to the point above, pubs should be situated in a locale where you can leave your bike without worrying if it will still be there when you've finished your drinks.

1. They love our Staffies

2. They have a great GF menu

3. They call my mate "Dolescum" after he was briefly unemployed.

It's in riding distance but its 4 miles away off road and a 1000ft of climbing, rides back from the pub have involved hedges, hypothermia and getting a tow off Mrs M and her E-Bike after I blew up in 30C temps riding over south downs chalk after a few too many.

Are hot barmaids no longer a prerequisite? Thankfully my local still believes.

1. As above.

2. Great beer and food.

3. Less than 5min walk.

The Old House at Home.

Great food,
Good events,
Nice feel in summer or winter.

@Bikebouy
1. Its up for sale
2 Its £1.7million
3. The beers better now Catherine is back

1. At least 4 guest ales always and one of the local brewers makes a beer specifically for the place
2. The bbq pulled pork and crispy onion loaded fries are really quite good. And cheap.
3. 3 minute walk

20 something Irish Women.

BigButSlimmerBloke, is that Xlendi?

the place we sometimes stop after work on Friday I was asking my friends what they wanted and when i got to the bar to order they were already being poured.  Top work.  Bit pricey but the beer selection is great and there is usually a table where we can sit and chat.  Don't need much more really.

It gives the locals somewhere to go out of sight.

It's far enough away that I don't have to hear them.

It's in the right direction so that at kicking out time, the patrons are walking away from, rather than towards me.

Went to my nearest local once. Never again, shit beers, shit carpet and dodgy clientèle. Now have several awesome nominated locals about 30 minutes walk away with great selection of craft ales and ciders and nice food and atmosphere. Probably for the best they are not too nearby or would be quite poor by now.

Profits from our pub, The Dean Tavern, go back into the community. My son has benefited from donations to help send him to competitions abroad.

Not really a local as I have to catch the train to Worcester, but it does have
1. Decent beer
2. Good baguettes at a reasonable price
3. A pleasant beer garden overlooking the main road through Worcester

Within swerving distance from home, I don't have to say what I'm having to drink - they just know!Telekinesis perhaps?
& Weekend live music.

Went to my nearest local once. Never again

That's your problem right there. The availability of a decent local boozer, within walking distance, was a major consideration when we moved. (That and the easy availability of commuting tracks to work).

In the end we ended up in a small village that has four good pubs and I'm happy to drink in any of them.

mrjmt

Member

BigButSlimmerBloke, is that Xlendi?

Indeed it is - well spotted.

the nearest pub can be seen from my front window - it's a flat roofed Holt's with bitter that no-one drinks but harmless otherwise. Planning approval has just been given for a makeover, local rumour mill says food pub with beer on the side but not sure what that will actually look like by the end of it.

The trackside in Bury and The Clarence are better options, as are the hipster bars in Prestwich

A five star review of what was my local on trip adviser 😃

Expensive beer, miserable landlord and the gypsy's look like they've been fly tipping in the beer garden.

myti about 30 minutes walk away

Theres no such thing as a 30 min walk, just a 10 min cycle 😉

A decent local is a basic human right. However, it can be bloody dangerous when it's actually too good. Our local is bloody brilliant. It ticks every box. Great beer (there's a microbrewery downstairs), a pie cabinet behind the bar which normally contains cheese and jalapeno pasties from the local bakery, a fantastic selection of (Lancashire) crisps, great relaxed atmosphere, brilliant staff who've been there for years, no music or TV (unless they've got a band on).

I spend far too much time and far too much money in there. Every ride finishes here. It's the law!

If you're in East Lancs then there are far worse places to have a pint than the Irwell Works Brewery 😀

1) selection of Fyne Ales on draft
2) proper Glasgow mix including many of our attractive, quick tongued and cool hipster brigade
3) free jukebox

Could go on

I’m lucky to live in Sussex, which is blessed with good local breweries & lots of lovely pubs, of which my village has 2.

1. Good local Beer
2. I know the landlady/landlord/staff
3. I play for them in the village cricket thrash (free beer for players on match night)
4. Free chips on a Tuesday after our village mtb ride.
5. Local bands last Sunday of the month.

Agree with Binners - I'd spend way too much time in too good a local.
I used to live one minute walk form the fat cat in norwich, but I wasn't really into my real ale back then.
My local is being gradually turned into a restaurant unfortunately. The best ones are up north or in the south-west. Too much greed down south.

It’s Friday, support your local 👍