The Turkey Inn, Goose Eye

The beer here is brewed on-site in a micro brewery - Turkey bitter, and so on - as well as several guest ales. Added to this - and that's enough for me to consider tunnelling into the place with a spoon after hours - this low-beamed pub with its two open fires boasts the finest selection of chioce malt whiskies I have seen anywhere beyond the Nicolson St Malt House in Edinburgh.

It is marvellous. When you lose at pool, they do not insist you drop your trolleys - and there is a beer garden across the road. What a pub. Locals sound, dogs welcome. A place to tie a good few on before pouring oneself into a taxi.

21 Mar 2007 11:36

The Fox and Goose, Hebden Bridge

This is not a, but the pub. Open fire, beardie weirdies, and the ale! You can bring your dog. There is a folk session on the odd saturday, and the people are nice.

Are you up from that London for the weekend? Metropolitan refugee agued with lifestyle anxiety? Come in here and get banjaxed with some proper people, whose opinions come straight from the fine array of liquid newspapers dispensed at the bar.

21 Mar 2007 11:31