BITE user comments - grahamo
Comments by grahamo
NOW CLOSED.
Was relaunched as the Blue Goose but has now shut.
13 May 2017 19:50
A bit stuck out on a limb this pub, cut off by dual carriageways and hardwicke circus from the rest of the city centre, but when eventually found nestles pleasantly near the banks of the eden (hence recurring flooding issues). Has had *numerous* rebrands / refittings over the years (anyone remember turf shotz?) but is now a hungry horse pub and was well rammed when we went in recently. Didn't test the beer garden as the rain was torrential. Decent selection of beer, family friendly, food better than wetherspoons 7/10
25 Jul 2012 14:21
want beer? want pizza? then come here. Large variety of bottled beers (draught is a lot smaller selection) and a friendly atmosphere. Compared to your typical west of scotland boozer that consists of a strobing tennents 'T', windows you can't see through and a invitation to a fight if you're not from the local gene puddle this place sticks out like an oasis in a desert of civilised boozers.
10 Oct 2010 22:57
Love it. Decent beer, no bother, wooden tables, old-style seating, good landlord. Better than the overrated Howard in my opinion and definitely the most central pub in carlisle (100 yards to the market cross?). Did take me a while to realise it had an upstairs like...
23 Aug 2010 20:42
Used to frequent here in the 90s when i was a 6th former (shh) and when I came back from uni. Was handy for the wheel, just nipping through the cut to west walls. Been back a few times since and its still a decent pub, nice ber, cheap food on in the day, nice old style booths, and as said it benefits from not being down Booze Canyon (tm) and attracts a slightly better crowd.
23 Aug 2010 20:37
hen/stag night hades. Rammed at weekends, a literal physical fight for bar attention. Ominously the only pub in edinburgh I've been asked to leave (cos of a friend's actions before you ask :-) ). The bouncers are expletives deleted.
17 Aug 2010 23:39
Yeah, it's child hostile and i don't know why. It has plenty of room and it's never exactly heaving, and given the local competition is the good companions (eek) or a schelp to swanston golf club it's missing a trick i feel. No way does it make more out of child-haters than it would from families.
Still, the beer is a good selection and the food is edible, but still, they'd get a lot more of my custom if they let kids in, its my nearest pub. Maybe better for my bank balance they don't...
17 Aug 2010 23:23
Nice pub with good food, decent enough beer. Have to agree with the service issue though, i could maybe understand slackness in taking orders but in getting the money off me at the end? A few times I've wondered about just sneaking out the door, they're not paying attention...
17 Aug 2010 23:19
Royal Ettrick Hotel, Edinburgh
Decent bar in a hotel. Now the gillsland/orwell have shut it's the only bar in the area between polwarth and craiglockhart on the 27 bus route. Nice food, was getting pricier though, and the beer isn't exactly varied, hmm carlsberg or.. carlsberg export. Has other bars apart from the main bar but only open for weddings/functions/big days etc.
Now it sounds like i don't like the place but i do, it's kiddy friendly, the staff are helpful and the clientele are an unmenacing bunch of locals/guests. I used to be in weekly but have since moved...
17 Aug 2010 23:15
Have to concur, it's horrible and lost it's soul. Plus the layout is rubbish. A MASSIVE bar island takes up the middle of the downstairs (there's an upstairs bit too), and the tables are little sad affairs scattered round the perimeter. It seems half the size of the old golf.
17 Aug 2010 23:01
Does Erdinger in bottles and great burgers. I'll forgive them for not allowing kids, i think this pub suits it.
17 Aug 2010 22:59
Balmwell, Edinburgh
Now a Toby carvery, so not really a proper pub as such though you can get drinks. Can't knock all-you-can-eat though.
13 May 2017 20:01