Why Nigel Farage can get his hands off of the pub.
The 24th of June 2016 sees the UK collectively place one foot over the edge of a precipice whilst dragging the other foot along for the ride. A moment preceded […]
Category Archives: * Grim
The Duke of Sussex: Horror at Waterloo
The hardest bit of reviewing a pub is to know what balance to strike between complements and critique, humour and insight, facts and fancy in order to provide you, the […]
The Bear and Lace (Nottingham)
Given my hard wired natural inclination to see the worst in pretty much everything from the laughter of a small child (piercing/creepy at best/soon to give way to tears/it still […]
The Kings Head (Stamford)
Sometimes on this round wet ball that we call Earth, two things combine together to form a little slice of perfection – fish and chips, frosty mornings and clear blue […]
The Milstone Inn (Stamford)
Good Stabling and Loose Boxes. For those unsure of what a ‘loose box’ is I’ve taken the time to find a definition. Here it is; “A stable, or an enclosed […]
The Bull W12 7SL (Tube: Shepherds Bush)
Oft have I sat back and wondered what it’d be like to hear someone sing Soft Cell’s Tainted Love with their head wedged up a badgers arse. Though I’m yet […]
The Goat SW11 1EQ (Tube:Clapham Junction)
Some pubs do other pubs a favour. Sports dedicated bars ensure that footbalists are a minimal presence in normal places on match days. Gastro pubs provide a meeting point for […]
Hen and Chickens Theatre Bar N1 2NA (Tube: Highbury & Islington)
As I hurtle with a grim sense of inevitability towards being 30 I occasionally reminisce with my equally doomed peers about the golden days of our teens; those early forays […]
Royal Inn On the Park E9 7JH (Tube: Bethnal Green/Homerton)
Sadly it’s an undisputable fact that in order to continue the species and maintain our dominance of this watery little space faring rock we need to have offspring. It’s also […]
The Grenadier SW1X 7NR (Tube: Hyde Park Corner)
There are a miscellany of things which contributed to me concluding that The Grenadier is actually fairly terrible. A historic pub which started life as a military mess hall and […]
Raiders of the Lost Pubs 