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danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Not here they’re not. Well, not indoors.
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Mrs tag is vegetarian. It's difficult finding more than 2 veggie things on most pub menus and it's often a veggie burger or something like salad if lucky. I have just trawled through the menus of about 30 local, walking distance pubs and there is little to choose between them. I guess this is what comes from living in a Youngs town. I have ignored all the local spoons. The best local, a Harvey's is/was a superb ale drinking hole which might not be reopening. What's worse is the most agreeable menu is a few miles away in an ok riverfront pub except it's Greene King. It's so bloody depressing.
Dead Cat Bounce
A member of the Waffle elite.
Just got back from meeting up with a friend from work who took early retirement last year. He booked a table at All Bar One (Not my choice) on Regents Street.
£5.95 for a 330ml bottle of Peroni
As I don't normally drink at All Bar One is this a normal price or have they bumped up the price to try and recover some of the lost revenue from the last year?
£5.95 for a 330ml bottle of Peroni
As I don't normally drink at All Bar One is this a normal price or have they bumped up the price to try and recover some of the lost revenue from the last year?Combination of location/All Bar One/bottle...? (Should've gone to one of the Sam Smith's pubs instead -- Glasshouse Stores/The Cock would cover both ends of Regents St...)Just got back from meeting up with a friend from work who took early retirement last year. He booked a table at All Bar One (Not my choice) on Regents Street.
£5.95 for a 330ml bottle of Peroni
Dead Cat Bounce
A member of the Waffle elite.
I quite like The Angel (think I was in there not long before lockdown...)
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
Ooh. West End pubs, Blue Posts, The French, Crown and two Chairmen (back in the 90s, Record of The Fortnight every Thursday), Nellie Dean used to be good until the refurb and change of management, the Star and Garter. And of course, The Toucan and the Coach and Horses. I would love a pub crawl in Soho.
RIP Intrepid Fox as well.
RIP Intrepid Fox as well.
MrSki
Who am I to say you're wrong
And presumably the parrot too. Hope it got re-homed but remember it from the mid/late 80s. How long do parrots live?
Raheem
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There's a parrot next door, and I'm going to take the fifth.
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
Crikey, I'd forgotten about that. Parrots live a long time I believe.
MrSki
Who am I to say you're wrong
Just looked it up and can live over 50 years so I hope this is the one from the IFox.
Used to drink in most of these pubs in the late 80s as I worked at (and had the keys which was handy if I got too pissed) to No 1 Wardour St overlooking Leicester Square.
Jeffrey Bernard was still a regular in the Coach & Horses before he lost a leg & the stroppy landlord whose name I have forgotten.
There were three Blue Posts in those days.
The company I worked for had a membership for the Drinking club above the hairdressers next door but one if you wanted a drink in the afternoon when the pubs shut or very late night.
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
"My" Blue Posts was the Berwick Street one. Another one was on the other side of Shaftesbury Ave. A haunt with my mates from Cafe De Paris. Think I may have been in the Kingly St one once or twice.
Went to a few decent shebeens as well... some memorableish evenings.
MrSki
Who am I to say you're wrong
Mine Was most often the Rupert Street/Court one.
It was my first proper job & looking back it was a bit odd. You were allowed to go for 'Breakfast' when the pubs first opened but only for ten minutes but most of the managers were to be found in various pubs during the afternoon & the cashier used to drink in the blue Posts & insist if I went to get tea & coffee that I bought all my own shopping for the week on the company. Nearly everyone went to the pub at lunchtime & if it was your birthday you could have the afternoon in the pub with people from your department sent to keep you company during the afternoon.
Looking back I can see where it started to go wrong.
It was my first proper job & looking back it was a bit odd. You were allowed to go for 'Breakfast' when the pubs first opened but only for ten minutes but most of the managers were to be found in various pubs during the afternoon & the cashier used to drink in the blue Posts & insist if I went to get tea & coffee that I bought all my own shopping for the week on the company. Nearly everyone went to the pub at lunchtime & if it was your birthday you could have the afternoon in the pub with people from your department sent to keep you company during the afternoon.
Looking back I can see where it started to go wrong.
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
Seven Stars, used to try and go in there when I was doing a fit out at LSE but it was always too busy. Great looking pub, think we squeezed in once or twice.
I'm quite enjoying this blog by "pub enthusiasts", worth a look.
I'm quite enjoying this blog by "pub enthusiasts", worth a look.
Infamy In Clerkenwell – A Drinker’s History of London
adrinkershistoryoflondon.com
magneze
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Just returning from my first pub visit for maybe 18 months. Virtually empty. Table service only but thoroughly enjoyable. After the first pint or two the pandemic wasn't mentioned and it was just like normal life chatting away about everything else. Didn't realise how much I'd missed it. 
Norman
I met Norman (served by) a couple of times. Grumpy old fucker to say the least.
MrSki
Who am I to say you're wrong
He certainly was. Prided himself on being bloody rude.
He seemed to be rude to everyone who went in there, without exception.
I think I already knew when I first went in though, that grumpy rudeness was going to happen. Friends had warned me.
So I wasn't too shocked.
I think I already knew when I first went in though, that grumpy rudeness was going to happen. Friends had warned me.
So I wasn't too shocked.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
He was
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
My dad and his brothers were serious drinkers , 20 pints a session was a regular thing (Irish of course). His favourite spot for a pub was next door to a bookies .Dublin’s Pintmen would take some keeping up with. Dinner or no dinner.
On the Trail of the Pintman - Dublin Inquirer
Two decades after agreeing to have his picture taken by an American folklorist, Cabra man Paddy Losty has taken the internet by storm as the embodiment of excess. But who was he?www.dublininquirer.com
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I appreciate table service is necessary but I like to take a look at the pumps to get a feel for what beers are on. Staff often forget or don't know anything about them.Just returning from my first pub visit for maybe 18 months. Virtually empty. Table service only but thoroughly enjoyable. After the first pint or two the pandemic wasn't mentioned and it was just like normal life chatting away about everything else. Didn't realise how much I'd missed it.
magneze
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The pub had a really nice system. QR code on the table took your phone to their website which had their complete menu (including beers) and you could just order there.I appreciate table service is necessary but I like to take a look at the pumps to get a feel for what beers are on. Staff often forget or don't know anything about them.
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