This is my nearest pub according to FancyAPint.co.uk:
The Victoriahttp://www.fancyapint.com/pubs/pub2258.php
Never been in it. The only local pub I've been to is v slightly further away:
Ye Olde Rose & Crownhttp://www.fancyapint.com/pubs/pub2257.php
'salright, has a theatre above it, so it gets suddenly busy at interval and then quiet again a few minutes later. Don't really go drinking in pubs around where I live though, because if I am in the pub it's usually with people who don't live near me.
― a fucking stove just fell on my foot. (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 18:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Closest pub to me is a recently refurbished old man pub with big tellies for the football. I never go in because it's a hun shop (rangers pub).
― À la recherche du temps Pardew (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 18:43 (thirteen years ago) link
idk what's going on with the wenlock now, sale appara fell through but they're still looking to sell. last time i was in there before xmas a man wearing a morrissey t-shirt complimented me for looking like morrissey. obv i look nothing like morrissey. great pub.
havent visited the new owl&p either but have been told it's vile tedious gastro. (would assume they took the billiards out as well :/).
was in the florist on sunday for a bit, s'ok but i tend to think of it and the camel as bars tbh. otoh 1) they do london pale ale and 2) they do it in proper jars so fair play.
only been in the palm tree the one time years ago but it seemed fun. iirc the guvnor was doing his nut at someone for ordering water haha.
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 19:11 (thirteen years ago) link
im so envious of all the real pubs. we've got nothing but college bars and shitty pub rip-offs.
― Cultivating a manly musk puts your opponents on notice (chrisv2010), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 19:14 (thirteen years ago) link
this is my hangout.http://armsbyabbey.com/
― Cultivating a manly musk puts your opponents on notice (chrisv2010), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 19:17 (thirteen years ago) link
really miss proper pubs & pub sunday lunches now I'm in the US. Have a decent "Tavern" nearby that plays BBC america, has pool tables and a bit of a beer garden; has baseball stuff and photos of baseball stuff all around but it's pretty ok actually. But gooduns are kind of few and far between, particularly when you're used to having about 8 proper pubs within a 10-min walk.
― Not the real Village People, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 20:47 (thirteen years ago) link
absolutely would kill for a beer garden around here. never going to happen.
― Cultivating a manly musk puts your opponents on notice (chrisv2010), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 20:49 (thirteen years ago) link
― Cultivating a manly musk puts your opponents on notice (chrisv2010), Wednesday, January 26, 2011 1:14 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
yeah
― ullr saves (gbx), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 20:49 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm envious too. i like the names
― mizzell, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 20:53 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm sure there are exceptions but anything called a "pub" in the US can be safely avoided
― goole, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 20:59 (thirteen years ago) link
uh huh.
around here they call things pubs just because they have guiness on tap.
― Cultivating a manly musk puts your opponents on notice (chrisv2010), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 21:01 (thirteen years ago) link
i guess we have dive bars, do those exist in england
― ullr saves (gbx), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 21:18 (thirteen years ago) link
i work at a dive bar, buts its a great dive bar. we actually have a bar in town called the dive bar....which used to be a complete shithole when i was 21. now its pretty darn good, owned by same folks as armsby above.
http://thedivebarworcester.com/
― Cultivating a manly musk puts your opponents on notice (chrisv2010), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link
dive bars exist in England, yes. In London, they often seem to be Spanish-themed, for some reason.
― Neil S, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 21:48 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.marstonstaverns.co.uk/Hull/Queens-Hotel
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 21:57 (thirteen years ago) link
i never have managed to enjoy the reliance, but have prob only been there on sat nights.
the new owl is v hipsterised and yeah a bit wanky, but they seem to have actually replaced the mini refurb the old irish owner did, where he lost the carpet in favour of v bright wooden floors and put bright lighting in. it actually looks a bit more similar to the old owl now. i've heard it's a real gastro pub but nobody was eating when i was in there.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Thursday, 27 January 2011 19:54 (thirteen years ago) link
the guvnor was doing his nut at someone for ordering water haha
he's famous for this, and other weird tics, like he'll sometimes just not let a group in for no reason. he's one of those landlords that will sit and drink with you when you're the only 3 people left in the place till 3am, but barely recognise you the next time you come in. generally a nice bloke tho.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Thursday, 27 January 2011 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link
lets go to the palm tree, garda
― cherry blossom, Thursday, 27 January 2011 20:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Is this The Sun we're talking about? I have a recent anecdote about a friend having to sit in the cubicle there for a good fifteen minutes while some other friends tried to negotiate some toilet paper for him from the manager, and apparently the manager wasn't making it at all easy to be obtained...
― Rejoice that you weren't eaten (chap), Thursday, 27 January 2011 20:30 (thirteen years ago) link
haha no that's the palm.
cb i'm game for the palm anytime...apart from tonight or tomorrow, after that tho literally any day ever
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Thursday, 27 January 2011 20:32 (thirteen years ago) link
palm tree manager sounds like the worst
― lextasy refix (lex pretend), Thursday, 27 January 2011 21:38 (thirteen years ago) link
longshot i know but is there any pub in london where you can play CHEESES (throwing a big cheese shaped wooden block at some bowling pins) like they do in the midlands.
― r|t|c, Thursday, 27 January 2011 22:08 (thirteen years ago) link
not helpful but i know a bar in detroit, usa where you can do that, but they call it feather bowling
― mizzell, Thursday, 27 January 2011 22:12 (thirteen years ago) link
freemasons arms in hampstead, though they call it "london skittles" of course: http://www.londonskittles.co.uk/
― joe, Thursday, 27 January 2011 22:12 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah soz i was about to say, i could've just googled it.
wow proper alleys! that kinda seems less fun than the drop-down midlands table tbh:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skittles_(sport)#Midlands
― r|t|c, Thursday, 27 January 2011 22:16 (thirteen years ago) link
palm and palm tree next friday
― cherry blossom, Friday, 28 January 2011 00:27 (thirteen years ago) link
oh no just palm tree not palm
BREAKING NEWS: the camel on globe road now sells punk ipa on draught. been there about 5 times since i found this out, which is about 5 times more than in the previous three years.
― I'm going to allow this! (LocalGarda), Sunday, 18 March 2012 10:55 (twelve years ago) link
We just got a new local in a converted post office, it's pretty cool, snugs in old bank safes and stuff. Which is good because the actual closest local is fine for football watching but going in with girls feels like a complete no-no. It's basically all builders from what I can see.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Sunday, 18 March 2012 11:59 (twelve years ago) link
Calling Chap: is the Dartmouth Arms any good?
― A Yawning Chasm (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 20 December 2012 12:16 (eleven years ago) link