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Bit of Friday afternoon fun/dreaming. You own your own pub, you can stock your favourite drinks, snacks and food, what do you have? What subjects of convo would you ‘bar’ and of course big questions, music and/or tv?
Me?
Wye Valley HPA
Wye Valley Butty Bach
Spey valley brewery Spey Stout
Bradfield Farmers Blonde
Estrella
A good selection of Speyside single malts
Gin can foxtrot oscar
No music, TV only for the international rugby and cricket (turned down with TMS for commentary)
Plenty of veggie and vegan snacks/food inc Greggs vegan sausage rolls
Proper dogs, muddy boots/arses welcome
Yeah that sounds about Right Houns - I'd say no telly at all but spend entertainment budget on somewhere for bands to play. fewer beers and rotate the specials on a regular basis, although I don't mind a selection of Gin as well as other stuff. Local to us is Silver Street brewery (their session ale is just brilliant) and Brightside which would happily grace my boozer. I'd have a small Enomatic for wines as well and just do one red, one white and one sparkling in bottle. Dedicated bike parking space, massive outdoor climbing frame and decent amount of swings.
Local ales or indie cask/keg only. No "usuals", constantly changing line-up. Local cider. Probably have to stock a bit of gin/wine for those who won't drink beer, no other booze/spirits though.
Definitely a micro pub rather than a big old barn, no music/telly necessary (or allowed!). Pound in the charity bucket if you swear or your phone rings.
A proper fire. Dogs ok as long as they're not ****s. Walkers/cyclists welcome. Small beer garden maybe? Kids ok as long as they're well behaved, otherwise **** off.
No "restaurant" food but bar snacks like pies/scotch eggs/cheese etc all from local places of course.
Don't think any topics of conversation would be banned but if you act like a **** or upset people then you are slung out and banned.
Maybe have a band sometimes but on a quiet week night only. Not sure about that though, depends whether the regulars would want that or not - definitely want to encourage those not just have a load of student ****s turn up en masse just cos their mates are playing a gig there.
Flat roof
Cooking lager
Strong cider (only served with black currant)
Peanuts on one of those cardboard displays with a partially clothed woman gradually revealed
No dogs, kids, muddy boots, vegans
Mass brawl every Sunday evening
Maybe a meat raffle
Dog racing on tv
Ah kilo you need locals coming in selling meat, cheese or razors
I forgot to add a cider to mine .... Cider House Special, served in pints only (for my amusement)
It'd have to be by the beach, but also close to mountains as there's a place I want to be (skiable mountains mind).
Music would be only stuff I like or approve of, so it'd be a weird mix from Alt-J to Cancer bats across a range on genres. TV, nope although rugby and occasional other sports can be good watched with a group I'll leave that to other places.
Ales and a hopped summer lager, wide range from smaller breweries based on decent beer, not just on being small. We have a beer fridge with stocked by a small local brewery at work, but that doesn't make the beer good!
Decent set of wines, not too wide a range, but enough to cover most key varietals of grape.
Home cooked, decent food, not foams, not fancy, some smoked/slow cooked foods and a ALL the best puddings!
Dogs not just welcome, but probably more welcome than their owners.
Kids, hmmm, not sure about that I grew up in and out of pubs, but it's not the best place for a kid and they are messy.
Flagstone floors for easy clean down. Sturdy furniture.
Space for local art and music too.
Oh and a tagged on coffee shop for decent java too.
Houns - razor blades; the most shoplifted item in the country.
Boots and Superdrug staff are routinely told they should not attempt to apprehend shoplifters.
Pre-packed steak is also high on the shoplifters list.
Ah kill you need locals coming in selling meat, cheese or razors
I considered the roaming meat sellers but it would undermine the meat raffle and I’m trying to run a classy joint!
this one https://perfectbeers.wordpress.com/2015/03/10/134-the-bell-aldworth-berkshire-england/
local, great cycling on the doorstep. Decent beer & cider. Decent food. etc
No dart board in none of the above???
I'd have the barstaff in the middle with a big u-shaped bar, one side with the big telly for sports + music, the other quiet with fire etc. Kids definitely allowed. Nice garden out back.
Hampshire Bowman for me.
Free minibus that does pick up and drop offs at 6 or points around the area
6 handpumps for real beer
6 craft keg beers for the hipsters
Oak casks with malt and hops under glass tops as tables
Sauages and chips in a basket
Pretty 30 somethings behind the bar
No jus on the menu or poncy grub
Open mic night
Roast dinners on a sunday
Lots of books on the walls to read, borrow, donate
Charity swear box
Kids should only be in a pub if they’re underage drinking.
Sarah Hughes dark ruby mild
Harvistoun schehallion
Tiny rebel crwtch
St Austell Proper job
Itchen Valley Russian winter winter
Itchen Valley pure gold summer
Dark star hop head pre fullers version
Timmy Taylor landlord
Hogs back tea
Quavers
No TV. You can watch that at home, it just attracts ne'er-do-wells who are absolutely sideways by 4pm and have no volume control.
I'd bar people who think it's socially acceptable to bellow at each other from the other side of the room (or in some cases, table). I'd employ someone to wipe clean the goddamn tables occasionally, have a healthy supply of beermats, and if I had a jukebox it would either be in one room only or at can-still-hold-a-conversation-over-it levels.
A few real ales on tap, a healthy selection of single malts and bourbons. No, we don't have blue WKD, I might make a concession on stocking Crabbie's. Free tap water, soft drinks at non-gouging prices (I could perhaps recoup this by charging an extra £2/pint for Southerners), discounts for anyone working in emergency services, maybe a loyalty card system.
Food, maybe a selection of pies and pasties and a microwave. Feel free to have pizza delivered.
No dogs, it's scare the pub cat. Kids are welcome so long as they're not feral brats or screaming the place down. Biker-friendly (motor and pedal). Bike wash and track pump out back next to the bike racks, basic spares available to buy.
Games room with pool table, dartboard, air hockey, MAME cabinet, board games, well-stocked bookshelf. No eating in here please.
Live rock bands on Saturday nights. Midweek quiz night. Maybe a comedy night? Games night. Karaoke can get in the sea.
This place pretty much defines it for me - Great ambience, beer, food, riding at http://theriverheadmarsden.co.uk
Tweedies at Grasmere also ticks the boxes.
Oh yeah, and upstairs is a pub-themed escape room.
Spey Valley Brewery stuff on tap at all times, Wychwood IPA also.
Plenty of whisky (including blends, the good ones, like Compass Box are allowed)
Plenty of gins too, especially local ones.
No TV, music will be from a jukebox with stuff selected by me on it.
Hog lumps, peanuts and crisps behind the bar and curly fries from the kitchen, maybe burgers and scampi too.
No bloody whisky chat!! And if someone asks for a Glencairn glass it's an instant barring for life!
And a Space Invaders arcade machine.
I like the free minibus idea 🙂
Oh and an open fire for the cooler evenings.
I’d employ someone to wipe clean the goddamn tables occasionally
This. And collect the empty glasses. Pubs used to have them, they were called 'glass collectors'.
No telly. No live music, cos nearly every pub band I've ever heard has entirely miscalculated their amplification:talent ratio.
Open fire, Theakstons and a few others, top quality food with local produce, occasional ferret racing overhead. Nice views from the benches out front.
This place, in other words.
http://www.craven-cruckbarn.co.uk/
Given it some thought, basically the sorts of places you see in the Gangster films, all seater - table service, moody lighting and maybe a bit of a show.
Definitely kids. Works here in Spain, if you want to meet mates for a beer no need to get babysitters. Kids are included in the plans. Not sure why it's not the done thing in UK - maybe you can't be trusted not to get slaughtered.
No blanket ban on technology a la Sam Smiths.
3 regular ales along the lines of 3.4% bitter, a best, and an ESB, plus a couple of guests and/or craft.
Because the dream pub in my head is out in the sticks (though I do love a city centre boozer or a flat roof estate pub) it needs to have decent driver options
A few pubs like this on my local MTB loop, but they are never open as I've usually passed them way before 11am... pah... need to set off late for a change.
top quality food with local produce
See, laudable as this, it tends to turn pubs into restaurants or, even worse, 'gastropubs'. The food at my dream pub would be good but simple, and not the main reason people go.
Also,
Tablets (or an app) so you can order drinks from your table.
Free pint to anyone who uploads a photo of a new "bollocks to brexit" sticker in a Wetherspoons.
Tablets (or an app) so you can order drinks from your table.
Get. In. The. Muddyfunking. Sea.
busy seaside pubs are great, good for people watching as you get healthy turnover of drinkers
Drinks.
Good beer that is ever changing with 1 house beer, but not too much of it so that it’s gets drunk. On the perfect day, this would include:
Bathams - always on
Salopian Oracle
Sadlers Mud City Stout
Fixed Wheel Mr 60%
1, maybe 2 others.
3 good gins, 1 good but lower end, 1 premium, 1 other, and suitable tonic too.
3 good ciders.
3 good beers on cask, a lager, an IPA and something else.
Other spirts to taste.
Offensively expensive soft drinks which means the beer can be cheaper.
Snacks.
Quality crisps, Tyrells, Kettle Chips, etc. in a range of flavours.
Samaosas, pork pies and maybe sausage roles
Pork snacks, crunch and scratchings.
Entertainment.
TV in 1 corner, this will only ever show 3 things, cricket, rugby union, Sky Sports news. The volume will stay silent. No football, no news.
Background music. Light, gentle, inoffensive stuff.
I could be persuaded by a jukebox if it doesn’t go too loud.
Darts board and board games, not in use Friday or Saturday nights.
Decor.
Old country pub style, not to scruffy, you want it nice enough your wife will visit it with you.
No seats at the bar, that’s where you get served and not where you sit.
Open fire.
Lots of seats and quiet corners.
Small ish beer garden, not big enough for it to become a destination in the summer, but big enough for regulars to have a beer outside.
A small dedicated smoking area in the corner of the above garden, no smoking in the rest of it.
Other.
No kids inside after 7pm, though a blind eye will be turned if they’re asleep in the buggy.
Well behaved dogs encouraged, snacks and a bowl available from the bar.
I think that’s a good start.
Hampshire Bowman for me.
A now sadly departed mate had his wedding party in the field there 👍
Close, Lunge, close
Good beer that is ever changing with 1 house beer, but not too much of it so that it’s gets drunk. On the perfect day, this would include:
Bathams – always on
Salopian Oracle
Sadlers Mud City Stout
Fixed Wheel Mr 60%
1, maybe 2 others.
3 good gins, 1 good but lower end, 1 premium, 1 other, and suitable tonic too.
3 good ciders.
3 good beers on cask, a lager, an IPA and something else.
Other spirts to taste.
Offensively expensive soft drinks which means the beer can be cheaper.
Snacks.
Quality crisps, Tyrells, Kettle Chips, etc. in a range of flavours.
Samaosas, pork pies and maybe sausage roles
Pork snacks, crunch and scratchings.
Entertainment.
TV in 1 corner, this will only ever show 3 things, cricket, rugby union, Sky Sports news. The volume will stay silent. No football, no news.
Background music. Light, gentle, inoffensive stuff.
I could be persuaded by a jukebox if it doesn’t go too loud.
Darts board and board games, not in use Friday or Saturday nights.
Decor.
Old country pub style, not to scruffy, you want it nice enough your wife will visit it with you.
No seats at the bar, that’s where you get served and not where you sit.
Two or three stools at the bar, but at one end so as not to get in the way
Open fire.
Lots of seats and quiet corners.
Small ish beer garden, not big enough for it to become a destination in the summer, but big enough for regulars to have a beer outside.
A small dedicated smoking area in the corner of the above garden, no smoking in the rest of it.
Other.
No kids inside after 7pm, though a blind eye will be turned if they’re asleep in the buggy.
Well behaved dogs encouraged, snacks and a bowl available from the bar.
Do none of these pubs have names?
The Perching Panther, obvs.
The Bay Horse in Roughlee.
My ideal pub would be pretty simple, large open fire with one old and well worn but comfortable chair next to fire, decent supply/range of Balvenie whisky, a few varieties of IPA- hoppy/fruity etc and one chocolate dark malt. A choice of decent weed, power plant, jack herer, some double zero hash and charas. And finally no other customers to bother me, just me on my tod wi a book in front of fire.
Not much different to my living room so i guess I'm living the dream.
Cheap ale, definitely no kids allowed, and single, flirtatious barmaids..
The Marisco Tavern on Lundy! done.
And finally no other customers to bother me,
Well, with the offer of horrible beer and stoned clientele, I don't think that'll be a problem
The Dog inn, the Cock inn, the Turtles head or ‘the gym’ for names
Do none of these pubs have names?
The moon under water.
The Moon under Water is now a W****erspoons
🙁
Barstools, NEVER. Don't like them when I'm a customer, really Didn't like them when I worked because they were predominantly occupied by dirty old men letching over my colleagues, complete with racist viewpoints and never actually buying beer.
The Hart and Holly would be located in the Forest of Dean or Vale of Usk, serving Wye Valley ales, at least one house ale, and maybe a cider or two from across the Severn.
The interior would be based around a large fireplace with a flagstone floor, and there would be no TVs (except for the occasional big sporting event) and no wifi, but there would be books and magazines (including issues of Singletrackworld) available for perusal and theft borrowing.
Cyclists of all types would be encouraged, and there would be free snacks for those who visited on bikes.
Children would be welcome until say, 20:00, but even then there would be an expectation that they would be considerate to others. (i.e. If they ran around or spoke above 'indoor voice' level, they and their parents would be asked to enjoy themselves outside. Even if it was raining.)
Dogs would be welcome.
EDIT: Great thread, by the way, @Houns. We used to drive through the Forest of Dean a lot as a family, and play 'What would your pub be like?' with the kids.
The Disappearing Chin as a name.
I’d buy the Kirkstile inn and put a jukebox in . 🙂
Cheap lager and a flat roof, preferably located in or near Swinton.
@cheekyboy: I used to live in Swinton. I think you'd have too much competition for a pub of that description. Even the Red Lion on the corner of Moorside and Chorley managed to make itself a bit 'flat roof-ish'.
The Lubbers Hole.
Some decent ales, lager and cider in regular rotation.
Fortified wines to be served by the schooner only.
Decent whiskey.
Snacks to include cheeses, things wrapped in pastry, crisps and nuts. Essenially high fat salty treats. No meals.
Open fires, dart board, domino's and a good view from every window. Skittles lane out back.
Side TV room showing solely rugby league, football and darts on a massive tv with surround sound. Room to be sound proofed. No wifi.
No dogs or kids or beards.
Good manners essential.
Plus one for the Bell at Aldworth.
No kids. F off to McDonald's if you want to eat and drink with your family. If fact no-one under 30. Chips and burger under a tenner. Beers less than 4 quid. No council estate types. Decent selection of pork scratchings. No music, definitely no football.
Women allowed, Daveylad?
The Disappearing Chin as a name.
The Beard and Barrel, eh Casketeers?
I’d buy the Kirkstile inn and put a jukebox in
That should liven all those stiffs up a bit.
The Grumpy Ferret.
With one door out onto the Sarf Downs and the other onto Dartmoor (its my pub and it has Terry Pratchett laws of physics)
NO CHILDREN
Dog Friendly
Gluten free Ales, Stout, Lagers on tap.
And cider.
Mulled Wine and Cider during the colder months.
Menu:
Prawn cocktails for starters or Pate or Soup, then;
T bone Steak (starting at 24oz) and chips topping the main menu.
Log fires
B'Jasus....50 posts and not a single mention of an amply endowed friendly barmaid!
Seriously, WTF!!
Disappearing Chin
Is that a bad taste corona virus joke?
Another vote for something similar to the Bell at Aldworth, but with a touch of the Black Horse just down the road in Checkendon and maybe my newest discovery the Duke of Cumberland Arms in Henley (not on Thames).
I love a good pub garden to be honest. Inside stone flags, good sized bar, but minimal stools as they are often the haunt of weirdos. Dogs welcome, bit of music in the evening but nothing obtrusive. Pickled things and crisps for sale, and maybe old school doorstep sandwiches or ploughmans.
Used to like the small snug bar my old pub, the sadly departed dog and duck had but not been as convinced elsewhere.
My mates run this place, The North Star at Steventon. A real trip back to the early 70s country pub. No food! Not many kids and tractor video night.
https://whatpub.com/pubs/WHS/058/north-star-steventon
The Grapes in Stockport.
“Fancy a crisp Tommy?”
“Bugger off!”
I’m rocking sarf London boozers at the moment, most notably the White Hart in Southwark. Premium lager and scampi fries are my current choix du jour!!
Tablets (or an app) so you can order drinks from your table.
I would prefer waitress service as on the continent.
If "The Moon Under Water" is the one on Deansgate in Manchester it always was a Spoons. Ot is a massive, noisy, vertical drinking establishment. Horrendous.
Craven Arms in Appletreewick seems to have scrubbed up nicely. When I was last in there about 40 years ago there was a thick fog of ciggy smoke and the only people more pissed than the customers were the landlord and landlady. It was a brilliant place though.
My local little bar ticks plenty of boxes. A great selection of ever changing beers, cask and keg, including its own microbrewery. No music or telly. Titterton's pork pies and occasional visiting caterers of various types, otherwise bring your own.
A bit off topic but still about pubs....
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-51397915
Big fire, low leather tubs, books, Naim sound system only operable by me, All the whisk(e)y, dark, dingy and rural and rustic. With a techno/jungle club in cellar
B’Jasus….50 posts and not a single mention of an amply endowed friendly barmaid!
Seriously, WTF!!
Also, no Irish or darkies?
Sky Sports and a Help for Heroes banner.
Billiards table, reasonably priced decent beer, somewhere to lock bikes and not full of ****s.
Nearly describes my local
No Kids
No Women (other than staff)
TV's dotted around the place showing football, anything thats live at the minute, Italian, English, Brazilian, whatever, live matches is where its at, that includes all cricket games as well (possibly Tennis in the summer but undecided as yet).
Jukebox only featuring metal or punk, decent quality though, Naim amp feeding ProAc speakers throughout the pub
Beer Garden a must
No wine or other poncey drinks, Beer/Cider/lager only, no spirits
Food is a difficulty one, don't really want to encourage anyone to come in, therefore snacks only for the regulars (plus chips/roast potatoes at h/t in the matches that are on).
No stools at bar but obviously a rail to rest ones tired feet after a hard day at graft
Oh, and at least one mate in, but he can recognise when you cba to talk and will leave you alone to watch the sport
Obviously free wifi and numerous chargers around in case your phone goes down halfway through a bet
Is it too much to ask open 24/7 as well, some of those NZ/Aussie test matched have late starting times...
could just said wetherspoons 😉
Your pub sounds well shit mate
The Applecross Inn. Seafood and beer.
@iancity1 - frankly, I’d avoid your pub like I’d avoid a dose of herpes simplex!
Sounds like the worst sort of flat-roof/60’s housing estate pub.
If a pub doesn’t do decent food these days, it’ll die on its ass, and as for tv’s showing sport, no wine, no spirits...
“ Food is a difficulty one, don’t really want to encourage anyone to come in, therefore snacks only for the regulars (plus chips/roast potatoes at h/t in the matches that are on).”
Well, there was a pub I used to frequent on a regular basis, I’d ride out of an evening, the bar staff knew me and would have my pint pulled before I got to the bar, and a bunch of us would get together there at weekends. The food was outstanding we’d regularly eat there as well, and it was always busy as a result.
Then the owners sold it and moved to Salisbury, the bloke who took it on seemed to be much like you, I’d pitch up, he’d look across from where he was yakking to his little group of friends, go back to his conversation, look across, carry on talking, then eventually drag himself away and ask me what I was drinking - this happened every time.
I watched this extremely busy pub, with accommodation, on a busy main road, lose practically its entire clientele in the space of a couple of months, it closed six months after the bloke took it on, and remained closed for several years.
It’s open now, just, but it’s had long periods of being closed, and has never recovered the popularity it had when I was going there.
It’s the pub I met my now g/f in, her folks owned it, and after they moved to Salisbury I eventually lost touch, until two years ago, nearly thirty years later.
I’ve seen other pubs ruined by people who think they can run it like their own little fiefdom, just a place for their mates to hang out; I’ve got news for you, son, it ain’t gonna work, that I promise you.
My current regular drinking establishment is the Flemish Weaver, formerly the Pack Horse in Corsham. It had a reputation as a bit of a dive, small bunch of regulars, meagre selection of beer, some cider, bar snacks, etc.
Then new people took it on, re-did the interior in a very idiosyncratic fashion, lots of little nooks for drinking in, open fires, comfy couches in the main room, live music occasionally, superb food, ever-changing range of beers from all over the country, with emphasis on local/regional beers, a wide variety of gins, and a decent selection of whiskey, music playing in the background and they do a loyalty card.
It’s a very, very busy pub now, and they make their customers feel really welcome and appreciated; it’s not unusual to find a couple of trays of big juicy fried potato wedges on the bar for people to help themselves to.
It’s been a pub since 1725, and showing no signs now of being anything else.
The decor and ambience of Cafe Royal in Edinburgh, the beers of The Tap and Kitchen in Oundle. One gin, one single malt (either Caol Ila or Laphroaig), one rum, one vodka - no other spirits. Rioja and white rioja. Free water of both persuasions and reasonably priced soft drinks. Free 'jukebox' running Spotify (volume controlled by staff). No TV. No wifi. Library, magazines and newspapers (no Sun or Daily Mail). Proper tapas.
Has anyone mentioned the requirement for a cribbage corner?
A separate room for pub olympics games - alcoholic drinks forbidden for participants/competitors.
Dominoes would be in a separate room; concentration and strategy would be disturbed in the raucous pub olympics games room.
Table service for cribbage and dominoes players.
Food would be beef wellington and dauphinoise potatoes; nothing else - other than the jar of pickled eggs on the bar.
Extensive range of leaf teas - all brewed at correct temperature.
No coffee.
Beers must be brewed within 50 miles but preferably in the adjoining building.
Gin - no.
Rum, Whisky, Vodka.
Wines as selected by our sommelier
No pool table; no music; no tv; mobile phone signal blocked; daily newspapers plus selected magazines - new statesman, spectator, private eye, economist, national geographic.
Hard backed chairs for cribbage and dominoes; elsewhere....a mix of tub chairs, chaise longue, settees.
In a leafy glade by a babbling brook with songbirds in the trees.
Horses and carriages parked beneath a leafy canopy.
Ah yes, forget.....buxom barmaids.
Children? Leave them with nanny - or outside on a lead.
No? Me neither.
Mine already exists, Rat Race Ale House at Hartlepool Railway Station. Constantly changing beer selection, 4 ales, 2 ciders, a selection of Belgium beers and a couple of wines. Proper crisps/scratchings, no music, and Pete the grumpy owner. Only seats about 12 at a time. Unfortunately I only get to go when I'm up there working.
It would have a proper front bar, a snug and a back room - the latter being suitable for ladies. The former not. Except for Jenny, a wizened old barmaid with an infinite supply of patience coupled to a demeanour that says it's about to run out.
If it's quiet, she'll even take your money and then pull your pints and bring them through to you so you don't have to wait (she'll moan about doing it but still do it anyway)
It'll have a selection of well kept beers but it won't matter because you only ever drink 80/-
It'll have a front room full of locals waiting for their wives to finish shopping. At least one of these will be in the know and will dispense the odd tip while you're ordering your beers, which then while they're being pulled allows you time to nip next door to Corals and finance your round.
It won't do food. After pressure, it'll give in to crisps but only in the holy trinity of flavours. You're not here for food.
It'll have an outside netty. Which will ming of bleach to show it's been cleaned at least once this week.
On saturdays from late afternoon onwards, middle aged geordie women will start to infiltrate your previously defendable position in the back room. They will be done up to the nines, in ridiculous short skirts and low cut tops. They will flirt with you while they get through industrial quantities of wine in no time at all; this is considered preparation before they go out properly. They will terrify you, but in a good way.
What are pub olympic games?
I’ve seen other pubs ruined by people who think they can run it like their own little fiefdom, just a place for their mates to hang out
Seen this happen more than once. Can be a death-knell for a pub as it tends to attract a trend for subsequent short-term tenants, finally changing hands at least yearly until it’s boarded up.
Fun thread! From Dickensian man-caves to family cáfes via all manner of 1990s-00s proto-hipster palaces/purveyors of posh crisps and pale ales.
I like a village pub with beer garden by the river or sea, with some nice guest ales and one solid winner that is always on tap. Bathams please.
A good cider is essential. Gwatkins will do very nicely. In fact it had to be that.
And a bag of good strong cheese and onion crisps. Sandwich or bowl of chips if more peckish.
Games in the garden and pub. Darts, air hockey, bar billiards, dominos etc.
As ever, the company is what makes or breaks it. Even if it’s just Jack Jones.
No seats at the bar, that’s where you get served and not where you sit.
This. People who lurk at the bar drinking should be told to do one - bars are for buying, not drinking.
The Fat Cat on Kelham Island Sheffield, own brewery and great selection of guest ales and ciders.
Has anyone been to the Pigs nose inn - East Prawle ?
That’s pretty close to what my entry in this thread would be.
A good mix of local ales and ciders straight from cask, food just simple honest pub fayre.
Quirky old pub full of interesting and amusing nicknacks, there’s log fires, a snug, a knitting corner, shoe corner, aniseed balls and snuff on offer.
You’ve got a dart board and a pool table in the side room. Out back, the weird toilet area where you’ll also find the communal shower room.
The owner, being a record producer has created a live music venue in the linked parish hall (you could spend your time in the main pub without knowing it existed )
It’s been a while since I was there and checking their website just now I was surprised to see Atomic Kitten n the list of acts that had played there! But don’t let that put you off .
https://www.pigsnoseinn.co.uk/
https://www.devonlive.com/whats-on/music-nightlife/britains-most-eccentric-pub-devon-2786004
B’Jasus….50 posts and not a single mention of an amply endowed friendly barmaid!
Seriously, WTF!!
Also, no Irish or darkies?
Yawn......our ‘woke’ Moderater, virtue signaling again! 😏
B’Jasus….50 posts and not a single mention of an amply endowed friendly barmaid!
Seriously, WTF!!
The Disappearing Chin
Was that not it?
The 'Slip, Cup and Lip' at first glance appears to be a children's soft play park except there are no children - but there is booze. Soft play is wasted on children and doubly wasted on people who aren't getting wasted. Adult only high jinx and pratfalls with the aid of a copious supply of tasty social lubricant.
All our bar staff are qualified first aiders.
At kicking out / hosing down time you can then head round to our sister venue "Vertebrae". The world's first licensed all night trampoline park disco.