BITE user comments - loy
Comments by loy
The Shakespeare Tavern, Durham
I've got to say this is a strong candidate for best pub in Durham. The locals are a bit despondent, but the alcohol is top notch!
Funnily enough, we encountered some of the 'Durham brats' students while in there, hilarious eavesdropping 'norm should be here, but he's shooting in Ireland'.
10 Apr 2007 03:39
Friendly staff, even if they had trouble with Geordie accents. Locals were somewhat nonchalant but not unfriendly as such. They need to start brewing their own beers again!
10 Apr 2007 03:37
cracking live music. They've really turned this place around.
10 Apr 2007 03:34
Although I'm slightly bitter about the fact they forgot I had an interview for a job at this place, they keep the best ales in Gateshead - possibly Tyneside. Well worth a visit if you can ignore the tacky Newcastle United paraphenalia - or alternatively, just show your red and white stripes and maybe the landlord will take a hint.
10 Apr 2007 03:29
It most certainly isn't the Age Bar and Kitchen! Went to Durham on a pub crawl, and found the Age conspicuously closed. Went in here instead and it was fantastic! A healthy range of well kept Durham ales and an extremely friendly lass behind the bar. Also has a pool table and dart board, both of which I experienced heavy losses on. I also bizzarely seem to remember a popcorn machine.
10 Apr 2007 03:27
The Travellers Rest, Durham
I can categorically say I was not in the Woodman Inn, nor was I in the Age Bar and Kitchen (as it was closed), the Travellers is now a building society. Travel further up claypath into gilesgate and you'll see the remnants, it still has the old lamp as part of the fixtures of the building
5 Jan 2012 00:53