Cellar Bar, Boscombeback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
This pub is staright disguised as a Gay Bar, although Allen the manager is pretty minty on the eye.
anonymous - 16 Sep 2007 19:39 |
Are you the guy with the fit missus? She had a sweet ass! 10/10!
anonymous - 24 Jul 2007 15:38 |
Went in the other night with my girlfriend and a few others. It took the barman over ten minutes to serve the two people in front of me, and when I finally gave my order (three times) he proceeded to put doubles when I asked for singles and never let my Guinness settle. However, this was his first night on his own apparently, so I was patient with him.
However, from that point onwards, the night just went downhill. No smoking papers or matches were sold behind the bar (and the barman had no idea what I meant) so I had a trip to the shop, came back and the barman had not only gotten my girlfriend's drink order wrong twice (Vodka and Lemonade, hello?), but on the third time when he gave her the right one, the lemonade had obviously gone, as it was just soda. I pointed this out to the barman, who proceeded to just stare at me stupidly and refuse to change the drink. Finally, he managed to get a Vodka, Lime and Soda right, so for safety's sake we stayed on that.
I'd been to the Cellar Bar once before and had actually been impressed, but this time I was shocked at how dirty the tables and glasses were (no surprise really, considering I watched the aforementioned barman simply rinse a glass out in the sink before setting it back on the shelf, despite the presence of a perfectly good glasswasher next to the bar). The regulars also made us feel very uncomfortable, with long stares every time we went in or out of the bar area, or up and down the stairs. My girlfriend asked me if we could leave after a while, since apparently the (assumed) landlord and the regulars were trying to get her to sleep with the idiot barman and generally being perverts.
Overall, an absolutely shocking night out was had at this pub, and the landlord needs to take some lessons home, I think. Firstly, everyone is slow in their first bar job, but that's why you put them on *with* people, in order to train them. If he's so utterly incompetent that it takes him ten minutes and endless questions to get me a gin and tonic, a vodka and coke and a pint of Guinness, *and* get it wrong, he's not capable of doing a shift on his own. Secondly, the place is filthy. The brass needs polishing and the tables need wiping occasionally, and thirdly, please keep your opinions and those of your regulars about my girlfriend's body to yourselves.
A vile pub, one I won't be returning to any time soon.
anonymous - 24 Mar 2007 14:16 |
visited the cellar bar for the first time and really liked it.Good staff,customers and cosy inside
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Good ale, good live music and punters are generally down to earth and non-pretentious. Staff seem pretty switched on. Haven't tried the food so can't comment.
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I love this place, it has a bohemian ambience and is filled with fantasic Characters. The owners are wonderful people with great passion for life and have made the pub an exquisite little haven to unwind and relax in, it is like entering another world down in the cellar and then Garden offers a great sun trap and different levels to explore and then of Course is the amazing restuarant upstairs with it's generous lashing's of home cooked food for an amazingly affordable for all price!
The Cellar bar also serves traditional and most scrumptious Tapas ( again unbelievably reasonable) made by the resident Spanish chef. A definate must visit pub!
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It is said that a pub is only as good as the people in it and for that reason I have to say that the Cellar Bar is the best pub I know. I suppose it could be said that I represent a biased veiw as I have been working there for two years but hey! If it wasn't a good pub I wouldn't work there at all!
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Tried it out after recommendations on this site - and it's a wonderful little place. It has a friendly welcoming atmosphere and some good beer.
Graham - 12 Jul 2004 10:59 |
Great atmosphere.Nice staff.Good live music on small stage makes this bar really special.
John - 11 Jan 2004 14:56 |
I have some afterthoughts about the Cellar Bar in Boscome. It has an interesting Bohemian atmosphere, and that means it attracts the thinking type. Well! these are people who can rub more than two brain cells together. We have to compare this with the customers in Deacons over the road. Anyway the Cellar Bar being in a cellar, cannot pump ale. It comes from firkins behind the bar, and being from taps there is no froth. This means a good measure even if it is flat. Visit it because this is a good place.
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A little gem in the middle of a cosmopolitan area. As it's name suggests, going into the cellar is like entering a Bavarian drinking parlour. Frequented by local residents who remain loyal to the bar.
Daniel - 7 Aug 2003 16:28 |
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