i just love it.
matt b:
>elbow rooms is a pool hall/bar/club that is far quieter than the above (you may get a seat)- utah saints run nights there
that actually sounds very good. in fact, you know what, i think i might have heard of that (purely from the saints angle).
thanks muchly for the linx.
north bar does actually look very nice, a definite weekday sort of place perhaps.
the arts cafe bar does sound good, despite it all.
i have never heard of mojo but the cocktails make it sound a must visit. if your girl comes up with any more, please feel free to impart.
Otley a surprise, i never knew that that particular part of the world is the best for boozers. is that w. yorks' finest do you think?
i've drunk a lot around the Featherstone area, one or two smashing old man pubs round there, but my happiest times in Yorkshire boozing probably have been in Hull (my younger brother went to uni there and his local, for a while, was the Gardeners Arms on the way out of town, a very nice pub).
i think York must surely be the most special town in God's Own though, for sheer jaw-dropping effect.
there's a lot of good folk festivals up around some of the small Lancashire towns around Burnley-way, just north of Mcr. i'm totally converted with you on that score.
HMGovt:
>...but it has an excellent cat...
this reminds me that Tony Martin's local in deepest Norfolk (yes that Tony Martin) has a wonderful - very fat - cat in the grounds. cracking little thing.
HMGovt, you really are blessing us with the insights there, i'd really love to know where the other two St Peter's pubs are?
it's something i've heard of but never tasted their wares, a shame.
it sounds
very special.
i think i want to marry your posts
oh, re. your Old Peculier in Cambridge query, i can't remember the name (oh and btw i don't get too much Old Peculier so my claim isn't all that special, but it was clearly very well kept, gorgeous).
it was an old pub, just past a bridge over the Cam, five or ten minutes walk away from the Alma (not exactly a haven of real ale that place, but it seemed to be full of rowdy locals, us lot enjoyed it, we went in because it seemed to be only one of two boozers in town we could find with Sky and we wanted to see Gooners-Pompey).
i realise that description is piss-poor, sorry!
er, the only other thing i can think is that it was multi-roomed, old wooden tables, some low ceilings, we enjoyed the Oban there too which was quite nice.
it was a very good pint.
that day in Cambridge started, incidentally, with a poor pint of Hen (or it might have been Abbot - i forget which - one of the GK stable anyhow) at that famed boozer where the American servicemen and RAF sorts used to drink - the Eagle?
i remember being impressed with the interior and the fact they had several mulled wine
pumps (bit of a rarity in the north-west y'see) but the beer was shoddy.
there was one very nice pub, quite a small one, again i can't remember the name, where we had something of a supper around tea-time, and i had a quite sublime sausage butty. huge loaves of a doughy white bread encasing big bespoke bangers. really quite impressive. they had Jura in there, i think. however the beer could have been better (we had some fine fine beer that day and one or two dodgy pints so no harm done).
ooh the Salisbury Arms, i like that.
i remember a big lash weekend coupla years ago in which a local (student) who knew a mate was showing our party round. we'd been on the piss around Norwich and Kings Lynn for the previous two days (this was a Saturday arvo) and were getting a train into London that night to go clubbing ap west.
the news came through on the videprinter or whatever that Sunderland had just been relegated and i remember proposing a toast to the Mackems.
just as we'd downed our whisky a cabbie came in, asking after our lot, to whisk us to the train station.
think that was the Salisbury.
oh moments.
Dunwich sounds a bit special...
...am impressed, btw, with this shouting of the odds for Aldeburgh/Southwold fish and chips.
as a rule, the best fish and chips from a chippy (posh restaurant/pub fare a different thing i realise - glad i didn't go for the pun then...) are encountered in a kind of arc across the north, from Blackpool to Barnsley, Scarborough and Whitby (although avoid the Magpie in the last town, purely for the money issue).
i like me fish and chips, so will have to hit it down there (mushy peas are known as 'manchester caviar' after all).
P.S.
on an Adnams tip:
was drinking in the Crown, Gayton, west Norfolk recently (
wonderful, popular pub - very well kept full range of Greene King, as you might expect).
got
rather excited reading the local CAMRA freesheet as it was the first time i'd ever seen adverts for the full Adnams range. before then i didn't know about e.g. Fisherman coming out just in December, that sort of thing.
was beside myself...