selection of ales, possibly including a local one
clean glasses and well kept beer
simple food/menu but well executed
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What makes a pub good?
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Posted 11 months ago #
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A decent range of wines, kept in decent nick. For da laydeez. Or indeed gents who prefer wine to beer. None of your Stowells of Chelsea wine-box pish.
Our pub-going habits have fallen off a cliff over the last couple of years and one of the main reasons for this is that 'er indoors is invariably served a glass of stuff that would taste better poured over her chips and is charged near enough a fiver a glass for it.
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Space. I hate being shoulder to shoulder.
Good staff and plenty of them so you don't have to wait too long queueing.
Good beer and a good selection.Posted 11 months ago # -
No. I think we just differ in who we'd rather drink with. I'd rather have a drink with a wet smelly dog than with someone who wants to watch telly and eat Tapas. Each to their own.
An open mike night and pork scratchings no problem with that.
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No silly cocktails that take ages to make. Or at least separate queues for those who want a drink and those who want to watch the barstaff dance about for 20 minutes with a flask.
No bottles of cheaply made third world lager - you know the ones, trendy label, less than half a pint in the bottle. Tastes like watered down fosters / carling but they want £6 a time. Peroni and that Mexican one are the usual suspects.
Posted 11 months ago # -
Good man. Only pub I've ever been in that has a whisky menu.
You have never been drinking in Scotland then ?
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There's two main this a pub should have
1 excellent drinks in the right glasses and
2 excellent staff if I walk into a pub and don't get served quickly or get served a shit pint I will leavePosted 11 months ago # -
what makes a pub good?
You can please some of the people all of the time.
You can please all of the people some of the time.
But, you can't pease all of the people all of the time.Posted 11 months ago # -
Food to mean crisps and scratchings. No kids.
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Beer, in tip top condition
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my mate's mum runs the Britons Protection, I'll pass on the positive vibes
service is the key really - lay the bar out clearly for the staff with a proper station for each staff member, don't overload with too much choice and make the pricing straightforward. there's not much you can do when it's 3 or 4 deep, but understaffing is daft because the regulars drift off and it's lost profit (note that this isn't me advocating getting the punters as pissed as possible as quick as possible)
if you are doing food - don't overload the menu, just a handful of dishes that are punter centric but not brakes brothersas the others have said, no frickin barstools !!!
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My fave pub has, good beer, a proper fire, dogs, no music, no telly (therefore thankfully no **** boring bloody FOOTBALL!)No pool table or darts, good grub, friendly,(& sometimes quirky) customers.
& It's the busiest pub in town.Posted 11 months ago #
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