Best and worst pubs you've ever been to

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― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 16 May 2003 09:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to really like Waxys off of Piccadilly because it had a huge fake tree inside it. I also like Positively Fourth Street. I have no idea why I have the same taste in pubs as thousands of mindless city workers.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Friday, 16 May 2003 09:29 (twenty-two years ago)

happy memories of Ye Olde Fighting Cocks (St Albans) - its adjacent to the majestic cathedral, is the oldest pub in the world or something, extremely low ceiling, dank, there's a log fire, trendy friendly clientele, Lowenbrau...proper - havent been there for 4 years tho. Hertfordshire actually has many good pubs with a noticeable improvement in the quality of beer in the more remote parts (one of the few times I had a pint of Stella that didnt just taste so pumped full of gas and chemical crap was in a pub with a crooked chimney on the outskirts of 'lovely' Hatfield)

several in Brighton i like but forget the names of or are nice but not really anything to shout about (The Sun, The Fishbowl)

worst = every pub i've been to in London ever (only about 20 in all honesty)

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 16 May 2003 09:34 (twenty-two years ago)

i'll be bitching about the Glasshouse Stores tonight of course ;) come join the fun...

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 16 May 2003 09:36 (twenty-two years ago)

There's a pub in Cambridge that used to be (is still kind of) called the red cow. it's now called BRB. It used to be a pub full of goths & weirdos. it is right next to the corn exchange so it was onlt ever frequented b4 a gig & always after. But now it is great. the downstairs bit is really nice, sofas & intimate seating areas listening to local dj's, but there is no dancing!! they sell great shooters & we regularly go thru the menu. (avoid the squashed frog at all costs!) ooh & did i mention how fantastic the pizza, dough balls & salads are?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 16 May 2003 09:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Norwich has a great post-rock pub. I miss Norwich. :)

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Friday, 16 May 2003 09:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Matt DJs at the Fishbowl so I have to be nice about that one. I used to like the Engineer until I moved opposite it, but the best pub in Brighton, for most occasions, is probably the George. I'm very fond of Lendal Cellars in York too. Worst pub? Can't remember, but I bet it was in London.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 16 May 2003 09:43 (twenty-two years ago)

the Philharmonic in Liverpool is probably the nicest I've been to, if only for the rather grand Lounge. Worst of all time would have to be any pub in Walton Vale.

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 16 May 2003 09:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Worst pub - the World's End in Camden is quite unpleasant, but the other one that sticks in the mind is the branch of O'Neills somewhere in West London I once visited which had a large pool of vomit in the middle of the floor. Nobody had cleared it up, and nobody appeared to be too bothered. Fucking awful pubs at the best of times, but this was extreme.

― James Ball (James Ball), Friday, 16 May 2003 09:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I was going to nominate Waxys as the WORST pub in London - it's like some horrible overcrowded hybrid of O'Neills and Hogwarts.

Although the tree and its Tardis-esque dimensions are very entertaining.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 16 May 2003 09:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Exactly!

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Friday, 16 May 2003 09:49 (twenty-two years ago)

But the worst pub I have EVER been into in my entire life is the Turk's Head on Exeter High Street (Hopkins and Southall to thread!). It's nasty and plasticated like the Pint Pot but also full of menacing squaddies who regularly like to kick shit out of random punters.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 16 May 2003 09:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd forgotten about the Turk's head. It is a shithole.

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 16 May 2003 09:55 (twenty-two years ago)

For the same reasons I'd like to nominate every pub in Goole. It's only cos I look a bit squaddie-ish that I got out with my life.

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 16 May 2003 09:56 (twenty-two years ago)

(Re: Turks Head): yes and it should be an absolute classic. If someone took it on and ran it like the (delightful) Well House it would be fantastic.

My current favourite exeter pub = the Locomotive but I realise I have (ahem) rarefied tastes.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 16 May 2003 09:58 (twenty-two years ago)

The Coronet (sic?) on Holloway Road is dire. it used to be a cinema and it's cavenous inside. There's just all this air space, so even if it's full everything feels really muted and sad. God it's dingy too. Actually I nominate all the pubs on Holloway Road, except for the Bailey at the Islington end which is quite nice (oh and the Tank too, but only because my mates live next door and they have let us buy bottles of wine when times get desperate).

Best pubs: I have a soft spot for the Blue Posts (north of Oxford Street one) and I went to The Hollybush in Hampsted for the first time last Saturday and that was lovely. I also noninate (aw) my dad's pub, The Coalbrookedale Inn in Ironbridge. It's a proper country pub with big open fires and lot's of real ale. I also half grew up there, so I'm biased.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 16 May 2003 10:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Aaaah, I know the Hollybush well.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Friday, 16 May 2003 10:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I also half grew up there

in that you're half grown up?

the hollybush is prob my favourite london pub. i'm quite fond of most of the sam smiths ones, too.

― toby (tsg20), Friday, 16 May 2003 10:19 (twenty-two years ago)

The Head on Holloway Road is OK. Well to be fair it's ages since I've been in there but from what I remember it's quite a decent pub. Except one time when we were kicked out cos it was raining very hard and the pub sprang a leak and then we had to go to the worst pub ever on Seven Sisters Road, I have forgotten the name but it was grim and a terrifying woman harangued us and kept trying to make me beat Alan up. (I didn't).

― Emma, Friday, 16 May 2003 10:19 (twenty-two years ago)

For the same reasons I'd like to nominate every pub in Goole. It's only cos I look a bit squaddie-ish that I got out with my life.

even this one?

http://www.norfolkwindmills.com/images/vermuyden.JPG

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 16 May 2003 10:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Toby, that says far more about you than it does about me. Pevertalist.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 16 May 2003 10:24 (twenty-two years ago)

There's that place called the Queen's Head in North London somewhere: Green Lanes? Didn't Pete once write an article in the old days of Pumpkin State abouthow unpleasant it is?

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 16 May 2003 10:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Nothing beats the (sadly departed) Music Tavern in New Cross.

― Alex K (Alex K), Friday, 16 May 2003 10:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Tim, the Queen's Head was near Turnpike Lane and I don't think it's fair to say it is the worst pub I have been to. It has a rocker charm all its own which is enhanced by the grubby barefoot kiddies running around, the upturned crate chairs and the regular exodus of gangs of 12 year olds from the pool room out back due to police raids. Not to mention the satellite porn on the TV.

― Emma, Friday, 16 May 2003 10:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Particularly that one. Which one's that one?

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 16 May 2003 10:42 (twenty-two years ago)

i think it is called The Vermuyden. I could be wrong though

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 16 May 2003 10:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I've told my Waxys story, I think they sold out my fine Irish compatriots who fought and died by putting symbols on the toilets next to "Fir" and "Mna" the Irish words for ladies and gents. People should have to ask and then criticised for their poor level of Irishness.

Er seriously though it was a dump, I don't like underground places which are lit with just normal lights. Yellow.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 16 May 2003 11:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Best pub, either the Fat cat in Sheffield or The Cheshire Cheese on th Edale Castletown road in Derbyshure. Both really well run houses, both very trad, both no how to keep and serve beeer, which many pubs don't. The fat cat brews as well. Fat cat does the best ploughmans lunch ever and the cheshire cheese has a really good spread of traditional pub food, (NB that's not Traditional?, just the sort of stuff you'd expect to find in a derbyshire country pub)

Runners up The Grapes in Limehouse, for its tiny balcony over the thames, and The Trafalgar in Douglas on the Isle of Man, for its great landlord (who let us kip on the floor after his new years eve bash this year so we could get up in time for the boat, he also drove most of his punter home after the NYE thing), good beer, good live music and free jukebox.

Worst pub, I don't like Sam Smith's or Wetherspoons' Houses, but I'm not wure what I'd nominate as worst pub. I'll have to think about it.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 16 May 2003 11:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I am offended by Ed's MIsspelling of my county of origin.

The fat cat is usually full of CAMRA bores, but the beer is good, not as good as the frog and parrot used to be though, back in the day.

― chris (chris), Friday, 16 May 2003 11:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Frog and parrot is being renovated as we speak, no idea what it will be but I can be fairly assured that it will be rubbish.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 16 May 2003 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

The Queen's Head in Turnpike LAne has recently been refurbed but I haven't had the courage to check it out. I had a soft spot for it Iron Maiden-centric jukebox, and the carpet made of underlay.

Holloway Road has now been much improved by the arrival of The Swimmer (Eburne Road, just behind the McDonalds on Seven Sisters road).The Lord John Russell is a lovely mid-afternoon boozer too, it gets a bit packed late doors. Hemingford Arms off the Cally is a lovely local too, if you live near it.

Another plus point about the genuinely great Holly Bush is that I always bump into old mates there. There's lovely.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 16 May 2003 11:47 (twenty-two years ago)

The Queen's Head in Turnpike LAne has recently been refurbed

Pete, do you live near there? I used to go all the time.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Friday, 16 May 2003 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

The LJR holds only good memories for me, even counting the power cut incident.

I'm a software not hardware man when it comes to the pub experience though so have happy memories of some really quite soulless boozers.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, 16 May 2003 11:52 (twenty-two years ago)

The LJR is haunted by a malign spirit, obv. At least, one table is.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 16 May 2003 12:00 (twenty-two years ago)

The power cut incident is surely a good memory? Blitz spirit and all that?

― Emma, Friday, 16 May 2003 12:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes Emma but in my dishonesty I was like a spiv who took advantage of the deprivation to sell cheap nylons (or something like that).

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, 16 May 2003 12:03 (twenty-two years ago)

My favourite pub in London is still the Lord Clyde, which is in a backstreet near Borough tube. It's really terrific, keeps fine beer without being all "ah the Old Scrote is a bit off tonight because of the yeast carried in the mistral from the Russian Steppes" and is just a proper pub where you wouldn't swear in front of the ladies.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 16 May 2003 12:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Beer rockism = the downfall of many would-be-good pubs btw.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 16 May 2003 12:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Also The Russian Steps = urgent & key pop tribute band.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 16 May 2003 12:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Oooh Tico have you got nylons? Cos this gravy browning is staining the sofa something chronic. (please start WILE someone - wartime ILE. Or BILE - Blitz ILE)

― Emma, Friday, 16 May 2003 12:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Tim = otm about the Lord Clyde, a great non-fancy boozer that is definitely without pretension.

Ed, back around 1990 the Frog and parrot was a fantastic pub, with real frogs and yer actual parrot. and bitty scrumpy.

Yes to the swimmer, and the approach (though the approach less so, due to large number of finned haircuts)

The Royal oak on Chatsworth road in Chesterfield is a marvellous pub.

There are loads of little ones in the peak district that are great in a "stay on the path" sort of way.

― chris (chris), Friday, 16 May 2003 12:11 (twenty-two years ago)

i dont mind the World's End actually, its interesting that so many people despise it - i quite like its vastness, ins't the problem more to do with the clientele?

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 16 May 2003 12:11 (twenty-two years ago)

hasn't there been enough BILE here for one week. (ohohohoh how witty)

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 16 May 2003 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

i dont mind the World's End actually, its interesting that so many people despise it - i quite like its vastness, ins't the problem more to do with the clientele?

The thing that irritated me the most was the attitude of the people running the place. A really cynical, 'pack 'em in and then treat them like shit because we know they'll keep on coming here' attitude. Why people are happy to cram themselves into a place like that I find it hard to understand.

Having said that, I've not been there for years as it was so rubbish last time.

― James Ball (James Ball), Friday, 16 May 2003 12:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Ed the Cheshire Cheese is a brilliant pub. Good choice. I'd forgotten about that.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 16 May 2003 12:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to live just off Green Lanes - halfway between the Salisbury and the Queen's Arse - the Sally and QA oscilated as our local. We especially liked the buxom barmaids in the Sally, though it passed hands so many times it never had a consistent tone (though a beautiful building). I believe it has now been taken over by a pub chain which does sensitive but souless refurbs, the type that Chairman Mick and CAMRA approve of and those of us at the publog (what's that) don't.

Now I live in Crouch End which has no great boozers but plenty of okay ones (the Haringey Arms is slowly going up in my estimations though). I still drift through Turnpike Lane on the way to the cinema.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 16 May 2003 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)

The Worlds End is Waxy's with indie kids - ie appalling. Pubs shouldn't be allowed to be that big.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 16 May 2003 12:32 (twenty-two years ago)

And it doesn't even have the saving grace of a tree.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 16 May 2003 12:34 (twenty-two years ago)

good point, well made

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 16 May 2003 12:37 (twenty-two years ago)

My favourite pubs:

The Trafalgar Tavern, Greenwich - Big old pub right overlooking the river with plush seats and jazz musicians. Full of tourists, but it's worth it to sit outside and drink by the river in the sun.

Simple Simons, Canterbury - Ancient but gorgeous looking hey-nonny-nonny old English pub. If you spill beer in the upstairs room with the sloping floor it drips down onto the heads of punters downstairs. Plus it has a real fire and, occasionally, a bloke playing Velvet Underground covers using a hurdy-gurdy. He's like the oldest Dirty Dronerock Boy ever.

Dacre Arms, Lewisham - Hidden away on the backstreets between Lewisham and Blackheath that even a lot of locals aren't aware of. Friendly old mens pub with the same regulars who've been drinking there for 30 years, and Queen Vic-esque decor. And a dog. More pubs should have a dog. It used to be twenty seconds walk from my house... *sniff*

The Old City Bar, Canterbury - It has grebt beer, a nice beer garden, attractive and friendly bar staff, a bar billiards table, two screens showing different football matches and a dog. Making it officially the best pub ever.

And NO Central London pubs.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 16 May 2003 12:54 (twenty-two years ago)

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Ugh. Lees beer is the world's worst. I've never had a nice pint in it. Another reason to avoid Oldham and Middleton and that part of NE Manchester. Paul Calf was a fly on the wall documentary after all.

― Dave B (daveb), Monday, 19 May 2003 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Ho ho Caitlin I haf had it rumoured that the Holyrood SWARMS with goths! (Now hem hem why wd I know that).

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 19 May 2003 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)

It is rather goth-centric, yes. They are all very friendly goths, though.

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 19 May 2003 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)

As mention before - Hornsey Road - Favourite no longer there.
Nags Head (Holloway Road) is now an O'Neills.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 19 May 2003 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Best - The Woolpack, Hitchin
Sadly RIP. It was a local hangout for the town's Afro-Caribbean community. On Fridays they'd have a DJ playing vintage dub on a vintage sound system. People openly smoked spliffs and dealed pot. They had Heineken export on tap and the best pool table and table football I've ever played. Sadly it was shut down because it was too good and refurbished into a family pub which gets frequented by about six people a day.

Worst - Wetherspoons, Highgate Village
It's truly dreadful. I can't describe how awful it is.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 19 May 2003 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Dave, Vicky and I both had fantastic pints of Lees beer in Chester of all places. It was really really good, very smooth.

― chris (chris), Monday, 19 May 2003 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm gobsmacked. Strewth.

― Dave B (daveb), Monday, 19 May 2003 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)

The Post Pub in Washington, DC across the street from the Washington Post used to be my favorite pub until the stopped my wife and I from going in because she didn't have any ID on her. She looked 12 when she was actually 23. They had great bacon cheeseburgers and onion loafs.

The last great pub I frequented was Mama Illio's in Catania, Sicily. Great food at cheap prices with an outstanding group of hot waitresses.

― Roman (Roman), Monday, 19 May 2003 16:28 (twenty-two years ago)

My favorite pub in Brighton used to be The Quadrant, barring the occasionaly over-schmindie playlist. Leffe Blonde and Brunne on tap, Kriek beer on tap, 3 cask ales on consant rotation also. Very friendly atmosphere with staff who actually look like they enjoyed working there, bang in the middle of town next to the clocktower, a thousand steps to contend with everywhere as it was built on a hill and 165 years as a pub with a Grade II Listed bar and front! Unfortunatley it closed down 3 months ago because they were evicted by the company redevloping the surrounding block who owned the Freehold. I have yet to hear if they have plans to open another yet.

The Evening Star probably comes out on top now if just for the sublime own brewed beers on sale, but the occasional live folk band grates, they do have a quite wide playlist at other times though.

Worst. So, so many. 50% of UK pubs really do suck arse, make that figure 95% in Ipswich where I grew up/

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Monday, 19 May 2003 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

yes, i liked the Quadrant as well - weird shit on the walls, and cherry beer (cos i'm a ponce) - sad to see it gone

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 19 May 2003 17:42 (twenty-two years ago)

If you want cherry (kreik) beer, The Evening Star seem to have picked up the baton, and occasionally do some as well as other lambic-type beers.

My girlfriend and I liked the Quadrant so much that we bought one of the tables for 15 quid from the landlord when they sold everything offf and it now sits in our garden! He offered to chuck in some stools as well, but I don't think fabric covered ones would weather quite as well!

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Monday, 19 May 2003 18:18 (twenty-two years ago)

we should sort out an FAP in Brighton soon chewy whaddya reckon?

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 19 May 2003 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Sounds cool. Doing anything for the England friendly on Thursday? Earlyish kick off unfortunately (6.30)

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Monday, 19 May 2003 18:57 (twenty-two years ago)

yeh no can do i'm afraid...i reckon wait til the Serbia game at least ;) or sometime in June and maybe we can get some of these London folk to come down...all riding on mopeds obviously

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 19 May 2003 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Worst are any irish/"british"-themed pubs in Melbourne. they are all the same. they all suck.

Best = Empress (obv.)

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 19 May 2003 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, probably will be a crap game anyway. Send me an email when there are some plans, otherwise I probably won't notice until after its happened!

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Monday, 19 May 2003 23:39 (twenty-two years ago)

We introduced Tim to the Village on Saturday, it's great, no frills, just a good drinking pub, aided by the fact that it sells bacon fries.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 06:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Here's one though - does anywhere do Cheese Moments? Bacon Fries and Scampi Fries are ten-a-penny (well, maybe 3 or 4 a penny) but Cheese Moments? No. Gah.

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 08:17 (twenty-two years ago)

but scampi fries are the best anyway so why should that matter.

mmm fish flavour crisps. A good pub will have wither pork scratching or cockles in vinegar but hardly ever both.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 09:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry to be spotterish but real ale + vinegar in the area = a very very bad combination.

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 09:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Good with stout and porter though. Actually its not to bad with mild either.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 09:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I find the smell of the vinegar really interferes with the taste of all of the above.

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 09:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I can just imagine Ed sitting in a Yorkshire pub happily sprinking some Malt VInegar in the white creamy head of his point of stout. Not good. After all Ale and Vinegar are from the same part of the colour wheel right.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 09:39 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

i am surprised that the One Tun is not used as a FAP venue. i quite like it

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Fancyapint doesn't even LIST the Montagu Arms.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

another place in London named after a pub = Manor House

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Gareth: you mean the one in Fitzrovia or the one near your place in Clerkenwell?

MDC: the Montagu(e) is outside all considerations of quality.

Chris: was there never an actual proper Manor House up there then?

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

tim, the one tun at goodge st/fitzrovia

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't like the One Tun

― j0e (j0e), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Not according to the book we got for Mr Jones, the place was named after the Manor pub, which was demolished a very long time ago.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 14:26 (twenty-two years ago)

eight months pass...

No love for the Spitalfield Arms?

― syntaxfree (syntaxfree), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.sissonfamily.com/Sewingroom/images/swimsuit-welmoed2.jpg

― Dada, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

The old 13th Note in Glasgow. And a lot of other ones in London and Scotland whose names I do not recall; it's been awhile.

― mike a, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

there is not a thread which covers the topic of london pubs, specifically. this thread is reasonably apposite though

the ten bells, in spitalfields

i think its pretty good. they do bombardier, and make it taste like a sort of dishwater. nevertheless, i feel it could double up as both a 10am postrave pub, and a civilised tuesday evening pub

― -- (688), Monday, 7 August 2006 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

and, let us not forget matt dcs favourite sleeping joint, the castle, in aldgate

― -- (688), Monday, 7 August 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

i went to the White Hart in Aldgate last week (after getting to The Pride Of Spitalfields and finding it impossible to enter due to business) and it was the epitomy of a three-star pub. strange sort of pleasantness to it somehow, very hard to rationalise.

sometimes i get heavily nostalgic for the london faps of 2-3 years ago.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 7 August 2006 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

fancyapint.com on The White Hart:

It's open at the weekends too, just keep an eye out for the odd Ripper tour or two.

Rippers?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 7 August 2006 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

funny that fap.com provides no links to/pages for any of the pubs in Clapton (nor do they feature The Dove in Hackney?!). i never even thought to look before. the only local place i drink in is Biddles bar on Lower Clapton Road near the portico which is chiefly what you might call a local hipster/eccentrics hang-out.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 7 August 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

Martin completely otm way back...Interest in pubs for me peaked probably just before legal drinking age when I was curious what they were like. It was a disappointment to find out how boring they are. It's the company that's important.

I'm slightly astonished that there are connoisseurs of pubs.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Monday, 7 August 2006 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

Why did Alex K get such a kicking upthread? He's right about Wetherspoons, and what's more the cancer has spread in the intervening 3 years. My fave pub is probably The Baron Of Beef in Cambridge, because it's the nearest public place with Sky Sports to my student accommodation. My demands are few. :)

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 00:40 (nineteen years ago)

The old 13th Note in Glasgow

But that, wonderful as it was, was a bar, not a pub!

(cue endless discussion, of course)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 05:25 (nineteen years ago)

The Phil has been kicked some way down my list after further explorations. Number one now is clearly The Ship and Mitre.

― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 09:46 (nineteen years ago)

four years pass...

wenlock arms is being demolished in 2 weeks appara :((((((((((((((((((

tragedy

― r|t|c, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 17:40 (fifteen years ago)

the vale in dulwich was a beaut!

― k¸ (darraghmac), Thursday, 16 September 2010 12:06 (fifteen years ago)

i love these stories ppl have abt going to obviously terrible pubs in crap areas and finding them full of psychos etc (surprise)

― Chinedu "Edu" Obasi Ogbuke (nakhchivan), Thursday, 16 September 2010 12:11 (fifteen years ago)

wenlock arms is being demolished in 2 weeks appara :((((((((((((((((((

God speed your huge range of ales and your massive chunky black pudding sandwiches.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 16 September 2010 12:17 (fifteen years ago)

i totally do not get why people love that place so much.

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, 16 September 2010 12:21 (fifteen years ago)

Sobering footage from The Sportsman pub in Nechells, Birmingham

― Bill A, Thursday, 16 September 2010 12:30 (fifteen years ago)

the floor in the Wenlock is a thing to behold. can't tell if it's black laminate flooring or old carpet glacially impacted with decades of pub grime, lung-butter and human grease.

― (+) (+ +), Thursday, 16 September 2010 13:31 (fifteen years ago)

i totally do not get why people love that place so much.

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, 16 September 2010 13:21 (4 hours ago)

haha just realised i should totally start a camra for uk funky

― r|t|c, Thursday, 16 September 2010 16:56 (fifteen years ago)

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