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Pubs with good food and good beer

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If you're at BZN and like real ale (or even beer that tastes of beer) avoid the 'Dive & The Golden Eagle. They're both pretty ****e and over priced.
Try the Masons Arms. Out of the main gate, turn left at the BP as if heading to the A40 and take the first right past the Shilton Park estate. It's approx a 15 minute walk from camp (5 minutes from my house) and is a cracking little boozer. Good food, all the stuff you expect from a town centre pub (bandits/music/sky) but a lot quieter and cheaper.
It has had a good renovation over the last 2-3 years and is certainly worth a visit...plus if you like playing darts, our Thursday night team is looking for new blood!!!!
 
If you're heading up to the Lakes for the weekend or longer and want to get a good feed in a lovely pub before you enter the tourist zone drop into the Strickland Arms...It's South of Kendal by a mile or so and off Junction 36 of the M6 (the main junc for the South Lakes) by about 3 miles...I had Sunday lunch a while back and it was ridiculous amounts of great food...I wasn't drinking but there was a good selection of ales...it's location makes it a good find and a dead cert for enjoyment and staring at the green surrounding fields...

http://www.ainscoughs.co.uk/Strickland-Arms/strickland-arms-home.html
 
Strickland Arms, 20 years ago. My Mrs plonked herself down on a bench and it split in two, spilling drink and wetting herself. I left at high speed, choaking. The next week they had an advert in local paper, wanting a carpenter . Never been back.


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BillyH said:
Strickland Arms, 20 years ago. My Mrs plonked herself down on a bench and it split in two, spilling drink and wetting herself. I left at high speed, choaking. The next week they had an advert in local paper, wanting a carpenter . Never been back.


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Things have moved on somewhat in 20 years...the same bloke owns the Derby Arms about 7 miles West on the A590 which for interior decor is like entering a stately home:

http://www.ainscoughs.co.uk/The-Derby-Arms/the-derby-arms-home.html
 
Ronnie Scotts last weekend. £65 for six drinks, £30 to get in, full of Tarquins and Sebastians, Jazz was feckin crap. Staff surly and arrogant. Lasted an hour and banged out. You live and learn.
 
The "Linden Tree" Bury St Edmunds (used to be the Railway Tavern) Food was either Boil in the Bag or Nuc-ked even a pot of tea (well half a pot was weak & tepid.........it was for the M in L)

Give it a miss
 
If anyone ever gets lost and is out this way in Cairo..............

The BCA Port Said St in Maadi £3 to get in for non members but decent food and a couple of different beers. large walled garden to sit in and kiddie friendly.
The Red Onion Rd 276 Maadi. not too bad but very smokey at times!
Gaya korean eating hole, good value for money
Joy Luck .....chinky eating hole, Nagib Mahfuz St , New Digla Maadi........in a block of flats above some shops! The best chinese I have ever eaten anywhere in the world.and the cheapest. Always used by local chinese
 
Here's a selection of some of my favourites in no particular order - some close to hand, others a bit further away....:

The Shoulder of Mutton, Wendover.
The Chequers, Wimbotsham, near Downham Market - £7.95 rump steak, chips, peas, tomato and mushrooms on a Wednesday.
The Hare Arms, Stow Bardolph, also near Downham Market - The best pub meat pie in the country.
Timbers, near Marham - quality sunday carvery. I defy you to leave there without bursting!
The Ocean - Broad Haven, near Haverfordwest - owned and run by an ex-Wales international who is a cracking fella with some great stories.
The Bustard Inn, Rauceby near Cranwell - pricey but hands down, the best Sunday roast I have EVER had! Quality local ales too.
Head of The River, Oxford.
The Eagle, Cambridge - popular haunt of US and RAF crews during WW2. Even now, the place is covered in zaps. from all over the world and advertises itself as 'The RAF Pub in Cambridge'.
The Clipper, Irish Town, Gibraltar - quality fry-up to set you up on a Leo Sayer.

And these are just the places that I can think of off the top of my head. I've been lucky to be taken all over the country both with work and at leisure and have eaten/drank in so many great places, their names escape me.
 
Warwick Hunt said:
The Eagle, Cambridge - popular haunt of US and RAF crews during WW2. Even now, the place is covered in zaps. from all over the world and advertises itself as 'The RAF Pub in Cambridge'.
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Not even to mention this was the first public place Crick and Watson announced the discovery of DNA in 1953 from the Cavendish Labs, some 50m away.

....and you are right; it's heaving with plane junkies every Duxford weekend.
 
Warwick Hunt said:
The Clipper, Irish Town, Gibraltar - quality fry-up to set you up on a Leo Sayer.
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Great memories of the Clipper and the rest of Irish town in fact back when the Nim's pretty much always were in evidence out there...went there in '06 and the Clipper was very much closed and looked as though it had been for a while...pleased to see it's open again.

Now who remembers the Buccaneer nightclub??
 
For those near St. Athan - The plough and Harrow, Marcross. Good food, wide range of guest beers/ciders and good entertainment. Another good one to visit is on the same road out of LLnatwit Major, The Horseshoe Inn.

Visit Dartmouth and go to The Seven Stars or The Cherub. Both very old and excellent atmosphere if you like your real ale.
 
Vim_Fuego said:
Great memories of the Clipper and the rest of Irish town in fact back when the Nim's pretty much always were in evidence out there...went there in '06 and the Clipper was very much closed and looked as though it had been for a while...pleased to see it's open again.

Now who remembers the Buccaneer nightclub??
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Aaahh, good ol' Buccs.....
 
KINGS ARMS, Rouple Street, Waterloo. Plenty of real ales, good grub Thai. Gets packed about knocking off time, folk grabbing a pint on way to station.
Top end of Rouple Street, best cake bakers in town and a brill. barber. 5 min walk from UJC.


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I just returned from Chisinau, Moldova where I came across the Beer House on Blvd Constantin Negruzzi. Four beers are brewed on the premises, three of which are unfiltered, a blonde, a brown and one called Extra which is a malty red. There is also a filtered blonde. There is seating inside and out. Good selection of food and snacks. It was about 2 quid for a half litre beer.
 
Arrrr the Buccaneer in Gib - usually last but one stop of the night.
Starts at Happy Hour in the Cally Pally - if you're lucky accompanied by some superb piano playing.
Maybe the Picollo and Hacienda on the walk uptown.
Often followed by Bianca's at the marina. Then uptown to such salubrious establishments as Paddingtons (If you're really old to remember it - used to be by the BCCI bank), Stagecoach, Horseshoe, several of the Irish town bars that I forget the names of coz I would be so trousered, oh yeah -The Pink Panther too, Buccaneers and finally down the steps to an increasingly rank stench of **** the further you went down, that signalled that you were in Lotte's Bierkeller in Engineer's Lane. How I remember the dim light catching and highlighting the hair on the mole on her chin as my Crew Chief snogged her. Later after she died it got taken over and opened by a Mother/Daughter team from Hull but that's a whole evening of stories. In between Lotte dying ( of being snogged by a Crew Chief no doubt) and it re-opening there was only the Hole In the Wall open 'till 4 am but it was a gay Navy bar and we never felt comfortable in there.
P.S. Angry Friar was for day time drinking only and grow bags at night.
 
Admiral Wells at Holme nr peterborough, vilage pub - Bitburger on draught, 2 other "guest" german beers on, good selection of Adnams and other real ales, Food nice but a tad more expensive than chain pubs and for those rare sunny days a decent beer garden where you can even take your pooches
 
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