― Mike Palmer of Honiton, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I have two more or less equidistant pubs too:
The Brownswood, on the corner of Brownswood Road and Green Lanes. Mainly used a landmark when giving people directions. I haven't drunk in there for at least two years. It's just a typical residential area pub. Middle agedish, localish, largeish, serving cheap pub food specialsish. Blackboards with coloured writing. You know the kind of place. Nondescript.
The Stoke Tup on Church St. Yeach. Once the Magpie & Stump, then taken over by the Tup chain and given the 'Stoke' bit about a year ago. Very new Stoke Newington. Boring atmosphere. About the only pub in the area to chuck you out on time. Doesn't even have a pool table upstairs anymore. A bit rubb.
― N., Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
closer pubs to me than peggspub and coldplayspub is the bar at the back of our kebab shop, sans atmosphere but open till 1pm, free chips, enormous measures and decorated like your grans.
in the other direction, The Settle Inn which has the finest selection of board games in the land. well... only about seven, but the alco-buckaroo challenge is a fine, fine thing indeed.
― nickie, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Emma, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Jonnie, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Alan Trewartha, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Pete, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― chris, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ronan, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
This is God's Own Pub. Cheap as chips, proper beer, as old as the hills, full of marginal types but cool because Cath the landlady rules with a rod of iron. On days when there's trouble int' air she locks the front door and vets everybody when they knock on. A somewhat Cavalier attitude to license restrictions as they apply to opening times. To say the least. Darts, Bar Billiard, Pool and Pinball. I love this pub.
― misterjones, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Settle Inn is probably even more All Bar One-ish that the Duke O'York because they do proper food - not Thai Muck.
― Sarah, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 09:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
I have started going to one on the Mount quite regularly and it's very good indeed, a standard working pub that sells damn good beer, and good food.
― chris (chris), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 10:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 11:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― chris (chris), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 11:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 11:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― chris (chris), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 11:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 12:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 12:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
I think N. is being unduly harsh about this pub. I was in there for just over an hour on Saturday night and I quite liked it....Bombadier on tap, friendly staff and nicely subdued lighting. The Stoke Tup name is a terrible pun, but the chain doesn't seem nearly as awful a brand as many I could mention....the Latin enscription on the lit up fag machine sign could even be described as cerebral. It began Oves optima (Best sheep? Top sheep?) Can't remember the other two or three words as I don't even possess schoolboy Latin.
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 16 February 2004 00:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Canada Briggs (Canada Briggs), Monday, 16 February 2004 11:03 (twenty years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 16 February 2004 11:10 (twenty years ago) link
― chris (chris), Monday, 16 February 2004 11:14 (twenty years ago) link
However, as soon as I actually move to Highgate, it becomes a flipping 'juke joint' with hipsters lining the walls and checking out each other's boxing boots and asymmetric haircuts. Bah. Although Shane Macgowan hangs out there for days sometimes.
Also - they have bloody live bloody country bloody music on Sunday nights, when I'm trying to get to sleep to remove the badness of the weekend's drinking in order to make a half-presentable appearance at work on Monday morning. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THOSE METROSEXUAL BASTARDS?
― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 16 February 2004 11:20 (twenty years ago) link
The Marlborough is also Enrique's local but he doesn't go out of the house ever.
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 16 February 2004 11:34 (twenty years ago) link
Also, they have a picture of Art Garfunkel behind the bar.
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 16 February 2004 11:40 (twenty years ago) link
― chris (chris), Monday, 16 February 2004 11:42 (twenty years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 16 February 2004 11:43 (twenty years ago) link
Just up the road is the Crown, which has two big screens showing football. It's a bit shabby, but basically pretty ILE-friendly, and indeed has been the venue of two accidental SE London FAPs in my time. The fancyapint link is talking nonsense, as there are three pubs and three bars on that road alone andd a further two round the corner. Also, the picture was clearly taken in 1985, as it looks nothing like that any more.
I still go to the Dacre Arms at least twice a week though. It is marvellous and warm and friendly and has a proper pub landlord like off the telly and two dogs and the same six old men sitting in the same place all the time.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 16 February 2004 11:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Stringent Stepper (Stringent), Monday, 16 February 2004 11:45 (twenty years ago) link
― chris (chris), Monday, 16 February 2004 11:47 (twenty years ago) link
Also within mere yards are The Freemasons (slogan: 'it's not what you think it's where you drink' arrgh fuck off), The Farm, the Biscuit Factory, The Coopers Cask ,and the cavernously awful Providence (prev. Litten Tree, prev. Bar Med). Astonishingly, I have never been to ANY of these. I prefer to return to my old locale where I can get Harveys and pool in the inexplicably Aussie-themed Cobblers Thumb (plus lethal Old Rosie cider arrr) or the teeny tiny Rose Hill.
― Archel (Archel), Monday, 16 February 2004 11:56 (twenty years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 16 February 2004 12:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 16 February 2004 12:18 (twenty years ago) link
whatever happened to the craic we hear so much about???
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 16 February 2004 12:19 (twenty years ago) link
Also I suspect with very few clubs open I've gotten used to going out where I can walk home as opposed to taking a 40 minute bus journey, so lazy.
― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 16 February 2004 12:20 (twenty years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Monday, 16 February 2004 12:26 (twenty years ago) link
It may have chanbed since, but I doubt I'll go back anyway.
― chris (chris), Monday, 16 February 2004 12:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 16 February 2004 12:31 (twenty years ago) link
there are countless pubs near my house (i live between upper street and essex road), but i hardly go to any of them at all. probably most recently i went into the jorene celeste.
i am, clearly, not using the resources of my locale to the fullest advantage.
― colette (a2lette), Monday, 16 February 2004 12:37 (twenty years ago) link
― chris (chris), Monday, 16 February 2004 12:39 (twenty years ago) link
― colette (a2lette), Monday, 16 February 2004 12:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 16 February 2004 12:59 (twenty years ago) link