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I haven't been in a pub for about two years. Should I get out more?
Any branch of Hooters
Teuchters, Edinburgh. Avoid friday and saturday though fills up with suits, but i often get the impression that i'm the only teuchter in there though.
And The Baillie, the Cask and Barrel, the Antiquary, The St Vincent.
All within staggering distance from my house.
Stay at the Fighting Cocks in Arneside and open your curtains to the bay. Stunning. Mind, the night before the live band will have been belting out all night leaving the missus kinda grouchy and sleepless 🙄
http://www.fighting-cocks.co.uk/ The train in the pic is one half of what you see when you wake up!
Red Lion, Histon CAMBS - crap for riding, decent pub for lunch and beer though. Great Belgian selection and new guest ale each week. no dinners though 🙁
Free Press, Cambridge Blue, Kingston Arms, Empress, Pickerel - Cambridge is pretty well stocked with distractions from riding!
O Sullivans on the harbour in Crookhaven Co Cork
A very nice, proper Irish pub.
I can see why so many pubs are going out of business though. £6.50 plus for a couple of pints :roll:, only a couple of years ago when I still used my ST at the footy it was £4.50. £2 increase in two years - why?
Sloans in Glasgow city centre - a bolt hole for when you decide to throw the towel in and can't be bothered with the shops. Great on a saturday afternoons when the place of full of shopping and people who've given up and decided to relax instead.
also in Glasgow The Horseshoe bar on a weekday lunchtime.
The Market Bar in Inverness, I don't like the place much, but it doesn't matter where a night out starts, it always ends there.
The Crown Inn, Churchill, Somerset. When civilisation ends, after the bit where there is death, disease, violence and the destruction of all the mechanisms of modern life, the dust will settle, those that are left will pick themselves up and dust themselves off, start life afresh and all pubs will be like the Crown Inn.
also in Glasgow The Horseshoe bar on a weekday lunchtime.
Aye the Horseshoe is a cracker. Some characters in there 😆
Some crackers here, mine..............
The Buck Inn, Cowpe (rossendale), just off the MTLoop and the best "landlord" bitter.
The Windsor Castle 114 Campden Hill Road, London, top ale sawdust and low doors
The Kings House , Rannoch Moor/Glen Coe, because I spent my formative years in the climbers bar, getting there at 12.00 midnight on a Friday night after driving up from Manchester.............memories !
All may favorite glasgow pubs are down dark alleys
Jerusalem Tavern, Clerkenwell, St Peters only Boozer I think, excellent.
Proper olde worlde, but in a good way
All the below are nominated for some combination of quality beer and at least one of - a)bike friendly attitude b)pies and c)barmaid with big b**bs 🙂
Cock O'The North - Hipperholme, nr Halifax. Brews on the premises, and it's all bloody lovely
Travellers - also nr Hipperholme (an Ossett Brewery pub)
Red Rooster - Brighouse, West Yorks. Great selection of beers, mostly local(ish)
The Spring Rock - Norland, Halifax. Good food and beer.
The Red Rooster qualifies on all counts!
To complete the Leith theme. The waterline, big comfy sofas good grub, the Roseleaf, nice and a bit quirky.
And seconded on the 'tiq. Free sanners and sausage rolls during happy hour on a Friday.
[i]"...and all pubs will be like the Crown Inn."[/i]
Well said sir.
Also, The Hunters Lodge at Priddy.
[i]Classic Robbies decor (beaten copper tables, farm tools, horse brasses), great location, and beer.[/i]
Great Beer and Robbies pub are not two things commonly associated with each other. I should know, I used to work in one.
[i]I think you're refering to The Las O'Gowrie instead.[/i]
That's the badger, thanks.
And how could I forget Mr Tom's on Cross Street? Serves a great 'Manchester Salad' (bowl of chips) 🙂
The Fringe Bar in Manchester - good selection of belgium ales
The Crown Inn Stockport - great variety of real ale and mad apple drinks
The Sportman's Arms or Inn Hayfield near the candc campsite
The Swan Inn in Kettleshume
The windmill Inn near Bollington - great ale & food and just off the Middlewood way
- [b]The Moon under Water[/b], Hounslow - Weatherspoon so King Greene £1.00 a pint, plus lovely girls serving 😉
- [b]The Spinning Wheel[/b], Northfields - THE BEST Ealing area pub: live music on both floors, loads of Antipodeans ready for fun, decent kebeb opposite. In fact it's so good my wedding do was there on an Open Mike Night.
- [b]Finnegans Wake[/b], Ealing - great atmosphere and you can read a book inside midweek without being inconvenienced by anybody.
My favourite was [b]The Devonshire Arms, Camden[/b] RIP.
The Rose and Crown- Ealing... Good beer, food and friendly staff
The Castle- Ealing... another Fullers pub that does nice Thai food and shows the rugby
The Red Lion- as above although it gets packed out and you need to get there early
The Bricklayers Arms- Hoxton... haven't been in years but have good memories of getting in trouble with the old bill!
The Boat- Berkhamsted... very close to home and work
The Alford Arms- Frithsden... good food but gets a bit poncy
Valiant Trooper- Aldbury... does good local beers and food
- The Spinning Wheel, Northfields - THE BEST Ealing area pub: live music on both floors, loads of Antipodeans ready for fun, decent kebeb opposite. In fact it's so good my wedding do was there on an Open Mike Night.
- Finnegans Wake, Ealing - great atmosphere and you can read a book inside midweek without being inconvenienced by anybody.
Are you completely mad? The spinning wheel was a place best left alone, seen numerous fights there, but had some good nights too, but Finnegans Wake....W@nk more like, full of chavs, kids, crap beer, quite quite appalling....this was some time ago but it looks like the same old thing now....would'nt dream of drinking there.
The Rose and Crown- Ealing... Good beer, food and friendly staff
The Castle- Ealing... another Fullers pub that does nice Thai food and shows the rugby
Both good pubs, the Rose and Crown was where me and my friends first started drinking 15 years ago.
Golden Rule in Ambleside
Eagle and Child in Staveley.
Prince of Wales Foxfield
- The Moon under Water, Hounslow - Weatherspoon so King Greene £1.00 a pint, plus lovely girls serving
- The Spinning Wheel, Northfields - THE BEST Ealing area pub: live music on both floors, loads of Antipodeans ready for fun, decent kebeb opposite. In fact it's so good my wedding do was there on an Open Mike Night.
- Finnegans Wake, Ealing - great atmosphere and you can read a book inside midweek without being inconvenienced by anybody.
TBH, I seriously question your taste!
The Spinning Wheel always feels like you've gatecrashed a bad wedding, and Finegans Wake is probably the worst pub in Ealing, not that many at the broadway End are noteworthy at all.
The Riverhead, Marsden. One or two elements thst need over-looking but great real ales (tis a microbrewery afterall... ) says the lager drinker 😛 )........... and great food upstairs....
oh, and local riding ain't to bad either......
The Grove - Hudderfield, top of town, just outside the ring-road, real pub, real ales, excellent list of bottled stuff from around the world, great selection of spirits and an unequalled list of bar snacks..... 😛
The Spinners Arms in Adlington - the beer is very well kept, staff are friendly and they have loads of guest beers.
Also the Black Dog near Dalton is excellent - great food and the beer is spot on too.
I spent many a night at the Wheel over the past 10 years. Never seen sa much as a push-up let alone a punch-up. I remember taking a chair and some Guinness bits and pieces from downstairs when a friend was leaving London for good.
I still go there several times a month, can't do it more often 'cos I dislike the Tube. The Finnigans Wake is my pub of choice for Ealing and has been since the late '90's. The best Irish Coffee, lovely place in the Summer. When I lived round the corner I used to go there to watch Arsenal play Man Utd wearing MU top and never ever had any issues with anybody.
Maybe they fight when they see you, mate?
How well do you boys know the girls at The Moon?
See??
😉
BTW Have you tried The Dolphin in Hanwell? Same old folk with the same old pint there forever. Or The Fox by The Grand Union Canal, also W7? Looooovely 🙂
I can't believe a thread about a shoulder barge has more replies than one about pubs, 😳 live near cambs at the mo but at uni in wycombe there was the bell in town, belle vue near the train station and le de spencers arms near the bomb holes in downey.
Ladybower Inn - Peak
Stay open for you on a cold winters night for a post ride beer, serve excellent food and will always find us a table on a summer Sunday when it's completely rammed. Top people.
Golden Rule, Ambleside (pre fag ban it was great)
and, for the memories:
Red Lion, Egham (Beautiful Burton Ale bolthole)
Argyle Arms, nr Oxford Circus .. to escape the maniacs outside.
lowey - I'd heard the Strawbury Duck had gone to the dogs. I worked there as a student about 20 years ago and whilst it was never fantastic, it did serve Taylor's Landlord and a fantastic black lager called Furstenburg Antonius as well as Old Peculiar etc.
Zokes - maybe Bolton > Bangor/Beaumaris > Leicester (we try not to talk about that bit too much) > Leith/Edinburgh > Perthshire
Aren't you in Bangor/Menai Bridge?
Lovely to see how many people recommend pubs in very disparate places!
Keep 'em coming.
Some on our Wed night rides:
The Bayley Arms,Hurst Green.
Swan Inn,Whalley.Timmy T's Landlord,Bowland Hen Harrier.
DeLacy,Whalley.Deuchars on tonight...mmmmm.....
Lower Buck,Waddington.Timmy T's Landlord.
3rd vote for the Crown Inn at Churchill in Somerset.
For complete character and ruddy faces Cotham Porter Stores in Bristol is hard to beat - complete dump though.
Also Highbury Vaults and Hare on the Hill in Bristol.
BTW Have you tried The Dolphin in Hanwell? Same old folk with the same old pint there forever. Or The Fox by The Grand Union Canal, also W7? Looooovely
Used to drink in The Dolphin alot around 8 years ago, and Matt my house mate worked there around 2000 thus how we met, The Fox is a good pub and the beer festival they have is well worth a look....but finnigans IS a sh1t hole no question.
BTW Have you tried The Dolphin in Hanwell? Same old folk with the same old pint there forever. Or The Fox by The Grand Union Canal, also W7? Looooovely
Ah yes, the Fox is a great pub.
Maybe they fight when they see you, mate?
Fight, where did I mention that? The Wheel seemed like a good crowd, but not in a pub way, in a cheesy nightclub way.
Last time I was in Finnegans wake it was FULL of underage kids drinking alchopops
The Happy Cheese, Ashurst, New Forest
Stupid name, and not much going for it except they stay open late for us, fill us with (quite often free) beer and (quite often free) expeimental cocktails, and dont mind us dripping mud and water in the bar, or getting changed in the bar either for that matter. And they serve Ringwood ales.
Maybe its not so bad...
Can I vote for the Sportsman in Hayfield twice please? Just come back from a post ride pint there, and it must be said Thwaites' Wainwright is the daddy of all beers
Last time I was in Finnegans wake it was FULL of underage kids drinking alchopops
yep, sounds about right to me, it was even worse when it was the Queen Victoria....well dodgy.
The Salmon in Gala and the Bridge Inn in Peebles are two good ones in the Borders, both good local pubs with good beer.
In Glasgow it has to be The Brazen Head or The Springfield Vaults.:-)
Geoffj - Aye, I grew up in Bolton, then moved to Bangor, and am still here. We were the only people in the Strawberry duck at xmas eve when we popped by for a pint! No sign of Cains mind either....
Also seconded the Prince of Wales in Foxfield and the Eagle and Child in Stavely. I just wish there was a decent one in Rachub, a little village above Bangor. The Royal Oak might as well not exist for all the use it is 🙁
*sighs*
One thing i miss about blighty is decent pubs - with character. NZ just doesn;t do it for me...
In Glasgow it has to be The Brazen Head or The Springfield Vaults.:-)
Nah, it's got to be The Louden Tavern 😉
The Surrey Oaks (aka "The Soaks") in Parkgate near Charlwood (sort of gatwick way). Great beer, Boules outdoors, good landlord.
The Plough at Blackbrook (not far from Dorking). Serves Badger beer and great food. well worth stopping in if you've been to the Surrey Hills..
The George Inn, Robertsbridge (Just off the A21 just North of Hastings). Run by my sister so perhaps I'm a little biased (!) but she serves really top notch home cooked food. Quite a smart pub and not one for a big cheap fill-me-up-after-abike-ride food, more special occassions/posh sunday lunch.
Fat Cat, Kelham Island, Sheffield. Surprised noone has mentioned this little gem. Is it still going?
The Castle, Bodiam. Really huge sunday lunch, not far from the trails at bedgebury. Open all day too.
TM
masons arms cartmere fell
import widest rang of beer in country
salsbury arms on green lanes, manor house
looks dodgy as hell but some great beer, claasic gin palace decor and ill never forget the night we stumbled across the OAP transvestite blues band rockin the back room, scary but awesome
Whereabouts is Cartmere Fell - that wouldn't be the Mason's Arms at Strawberry Bank (Cart[i]mell[/i] Fell) would it? 😛
They have another pub near Elslack - Tempest Arms-on the Yorks Lancs norder that I visit now and again, pretty good food and good range of beer.