BITE user comments - sde1000
Comments by sde1000
anonymous: not sure whether you heard Ben right, or whether he was talking to you. I'm sure it was supposed to be a joke, though, whichever it was.
Steve (landlord)
15 Jan 2007 13:01
danrkelly: you picked a slightly unfortunate night to visit - last Thursday a lot of our regulars (and me!) were over at Leyton Orient Supporters Club for their two-day beer festival.
The pork scratchings are indeed made on the premises by Simon the chef.
We're having our own beer festival next month - 15th-19th November. I hope to have about 30 real ales available.
24 Oct 2006 18:08
lighterthief: thanks for the kind words! We do intend to serve a wide variety of guest beers; this will get easier as we get busier. At the moment my problem is sometimes that people won't drink the guests when I put them on - they go for the Milton beer instead!
28 Sep 2006 20:28
mtaylor40: you should come back - it's changed a lot in the last few months! The kitchen's open now, which attracts more people at mealtimes, and we're picking up more regulars. Chess club on Tuesday nights is getting quite busy!
18 Sep 2006 17:59
On Thursday evening we had a group of 200 travellers come in, sit down, and start drinking their own beer. (Bottles of American Bud, cans of Fosters, and so on.)
I called the police; it took them about an hour to clear the pub. It was completely trashed afterwards: the floor was a sea of beer, broken glass, bottle tops, little ripped-up bits of bottle labels...
It took me about ten hours to clean up on Friday, so the pub was late opening.
The same group visited just about every pub in Hackney that evening; most of them closed.
22 Jan 2006 21:26
Next beer festival: 15th to 22nd November 2005. The same as usual - about 40 real ales, five ciders/perries, lovely food.
28 Oct 2005 22:32
NB the local church finishes before opening time (12pm) on Sundays. If you arrive at opening time you might catch them clearing up!
26 Oct 2005 20:14
Oh yes, another thing: we're now serving Sunday lunch from 12pm every Sunday. Turn up early to avoid disappointment - we've sold out each week so far.
6 May 2005 19:12
The next festival is 21st-27th February. 30+ real ales, 5 real ciders.
20 Jan 2005 12:54
The Coalheavers Arms, Peterborough
We didn't get Anglia POTY, by the way. Apparently the design of the pub isn't sufficiently directed towards young people.
30 Aug 2004 17:21
The Coalheavers Arms, Peterborough
What dog? There hasn't been a dog living there since late 2003.
27 Aug 2004 10:36
The beer festival is actually 12th-16th August, although obviously by the 16th quite a lot of the beers will have been drunk. There's going to be a bit of a party on the Saturday evening (14th) because it's the landlord's birthday. One of the beers is his special birthday brew!
The preliminary beer and cider list is on the pub web page.
9 Aug 2004 22:32
Fun pub quiz on Wednesday evenings. The landlord used to run the tombola at Cambridge Beer Festival; he has no problem making himself heard.
19 Mar 2004 01:16
Noted the comment about the lighting. We'll try some lower-wattage bulbs in the public bar.
26 Feb 2004 12:14
The Coalheavers Arms, Peterborough
New opening hours:
Mon-Wed 5-11
Thu 12-2, 5-11
Fri-Sat 12-11
Sun 12-10:30
I'll be looking after the pub for the next couple of months - at least until the new year - after which I'll be looking for a couple to run it. Bruce and Steph will be a hard act to follow, but I hope that won't put people off...
15 Nov 2003 23:15
Definitely not going to become a food-oriented pub. We've seen pubs go down that route before - very nice for a while, but it's far too easy to end up as a restaurant-with-beer instead of a pub-with-food.
We plan on doing _good_ food - everything freshly cooked, no re-heated frozen stuff - but nothing fancy. We're going to restrict the food serving times so that it's definitely a drinkers pub in the evening; we'll do food up to around 8pm and then stop.
23 Sep 2003 16:26
Yes, baked potatos are currently the only non-snack food available. This is because our kitchen (and indeed the whole first floor) is full of builders. Once the kitchen's back in one piece we should be able to offer a full menu - hopefully in a month or so.
15 Sep 2003 23:32
The Oakdale now has a friendly, informal pub quiz on Thursday evenings. First prize for a team is �20 of drinks; second prize is �10 of drinks. The quiz doesn't cost anything to enter - just turn up.
18 Aug 2003 16:36
Yes, we're the same people that run the Coalheavers in Peterborough. (Speaking of which, I'm just about to get on a train and go there to run it over the weekend while Bruce and Steph have a short holiday...)
31 Jul 2003 09:48
The Coalheavers Arms, Peterborough
anonymous: FYI, Mandy has been running the pub since early 2004.
9 Feb 2007 19:02