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I just want a pub that serves good beer as its main priority with snacks to soak up the beer (such as ploughmans or beef/ham etc sandwiches).
I don't mind a bit of music but not the stuff the bar staff (often a 20 years old Aussie and a Polish girl he is trying to impress) wants to play because HE/SHE likes it and I don't want it louder than the conversation.
I want somewhere to sit that is not at a table with menus all over it.
I don't mind if the decor has seen better days but I do want a toilet that looks like it is cared for and cleaned regularly.
I want real ales but I do like Directors and London Pride (what a great name for a good English beer)as a reasonable mainstream alternative. If lager has to be sold I only want to see one on offer instead of six lagers and one desultry bitter!
I want a name for the pub that is routed in history not the miasmic meanderings of some media w****r whose never actually drunk a pint of beer in his/her life.
Give me a pub that I can take a foreign visitor to(preferably American or Aussie) and say - this is what English/Welsh/Scottishness is all about and when he complains about the warm beer I will ask him if he puts ice in his whisky. If he says yes I will take him to the nearest river and ask him to drink some of that.
I don't mind a bit of music but not the stuff the bar staff (often a 20 years old Aussie and a Polish girl he is trying to impress) wants to play because HE/SHE likes it and I don't want it louder than the conversation.
I want somewhere to sit that is not at a table with menus all over it.
I don't mind if the decor has seen better days but I do want a toilet that looks like it is cared for and cleaned regularly.
I want real ales but I do like Directors and London Pride (what a great name for a good English beer)as a reasonable mainstream alternative. If lager has to be sold I only want to see one on offer instead of six lagers and one desultry bitter!
I want a name for the pub that is routed in history not the miasmic meanderings of some media w****r whose never actually drunk a pint of beer in his/her life.
Give me a pub that I can take a foreign visitor to(preferably American or Aussie) and say - this is what English/Welsh/Scottishness is all about and when he complains about the warm beer I will ask him if he puts ice in his whisky. If he says yes I will take him to the nearest river and ask him to drink some of that.
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willheard has been registered on this site since 5th March 2010
The Blue Posts, Soho
What's wrong with a 1970's feel to the pub ?- I would say it's actually more 1960's and all the better for that.
March 4, 2010 at lunchtime
As far as I could see no food was being sold - in fact someone went out and got some chips for the barman. I would have liked a sandwich but at least I was served by someone who was there to serve me and not dashing about with dirty plates and greasy hands (he served me my pint before he got the chips!)
Music in the background - not enough to disturb my newspaper reading thank goodness and good conversation going on between three locals in one place some young trendy girls in anmother and two city type gents at the bar.
I had a pint of Directors - tasted all right to me. It also sold London Pride but I did not study the other drinks on offer.
Thge Gents was clean and, glory of glories, the copper pipework was polished and shining.
A really good, no nonsense pub that still concentrates on serving beer instead of food. I will certainly revisit this pub.
5 Mar 2010 19:12