BITE user comments - spaceman
Comments by spaceman
Ben Crouch's Tavern, Fitzrovia
Cold beer, Jaggermeister, Motorhead and beautiful girls. Service with attitude and flair and it shuts at a sensible hour so you don't end up licking a pillow down the Dibbleshop. This is what they should do to Ye Olde Mitre. 10/10.
20 Sep 2008 13:05
You are welcome Robb Graham. I'm an easy man to please, cold beer and hot food. I don't like dirty pubs where the regulars manage the atmosphere and where the staff sigh and whinge. All these things were issues in my visits, I'll drink around the corner it doesn't matter to me but you did ask. You can rattle all the brewery twaddle you like. Crap is crap. Instead of buying me a drink, can I just have the money to spend elsewhere?
20 Sep 2008 12:57
The Kings Arms, Liverpool Street
A pint and a fight, a great Kings Arms night. Always good for a punch-up and a flat beer. I love it.
20 Sep 2008 12:44
I won't ever understand the lure. I'd speculate that its elitism. Its the home of the arrogant camra squad and the aspirational city-skirters. Its just mind numbingly boring, I gave it a second chance after the slating I got last time but I don't see it. It fits straight into aspirational middle-class England. Its a tank-top, a tweed cardigan, a barbour jacket, tea and scones, Cliff Richard, lawn tennis, anyone who misses the English bar at Disneyworld, theres one in Holborn. Roll on the passing of this generation that pine for 'real pubs'. Bloody awful, lager was flat too.
20 Sep 2008 12:34
The Captains Cabin, Piccadilly
Whats the big deal about miserable staff? You work for a nazi for minimum wage minus a charge for a rusty auld bunk, you serve amateur would be comedians, drunks, perverts, foreigners with no English and answer stupid questions 12 hours a day and lets see you hop about like the Easter bunny. These people are entitled to hate you and be miserable. If your looking for mates over a counter your a freak, just say please, thank you and jog on. Congratulations to the staff for being so miserable, you show them!!! Good work.
30 Apr 2008 15:21
I have history with this pub, I met my first wife there when we engaged in a mutual slanging match about the poor service and general lack of attention from the hippys behind the counter. I discovered last week nothings changed and beat a hasty retreat before history repeated itself. I can't afford to give another house away. To sum up, busy understaffed, they stock warm bottles to the front of fridges ( I'll do time next time I get a warm corona that some herberts popped a well fingered lime into ). Apart from that its amazimg.
30 Apr 2008 15:03
The Goose at the Gardens, Newcastle
Disneyland for boozers, cheap and cheerful. Remarkably good service considering, a good fry to sort your bad head and the beer prices to get it back again. If I didn't have a missus with delusions of grandeur I'd quit the job and spend the rest of me life half-cut in here. Very good, for those of us without delusions of grandeur.
30 Apr 2008 14:47
The Freemasons Arms, Covent Garden
This is a great pub, good beer, don't care about food, good standards, football and they grasp the concept that us fellas don't want to be served off auld boots and shaky auld drunks ( Prince Of Wales ) because they always have a couple of crackers on the payroll. Good work man with moustache. If you are a poor man like the fella below I suggest you don't drink in Covent Garden, bet he never shut up about it all night. Your mate. Cracking bar I'll stop by next time I'm in town.
30 Apr 2008 14:39
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P.s I'm being kind.
30 Apr 2008 14:30
Is that Tony still alive? He's like a cockroach, everytime the ethnically cleanse the staff and management he survives. God bless you Tone, in a world of 30 question bar staff, (What kind of lager would you like? Would you like chips, mash or...etc? Any side-orders sir? Large or small sir? Everything alright sir?)your screw you attitude is a wonder to behold. I don't want to talk to you either, please and thankyou will do. Keep up the good work.
30 Apr 2008 14:22
You should never go back. You should be happy with your memories. I can remember going on a detour to see an old girlfriend a while back and I did the same with the Cottage. 10 years since I last saw it and God what have they done. It used to be a belter when that Paddy fella ran it. I used to ride the tube for 45 mins just for the craic. Its been given the loving sledgehammer touch of The Spirit Group. Bland, bland, bland. If you must, there is better Spirit pubs close by doing the same drinks and the same menu with a little bit more class, not hard. Shame. As for the ex-girlfriend thats a different kettle of fish, she must of spent the last 10 years eating choclate eclairs which delighted me. So it wasn't all bad on the walk down memory lane in Fulham.
30 Apr 2008 14:11
Very up-market Edinburgh bar. It has some great cocktails, snakebite being my favorite, a very contemporary food offering, I particularly liked the prawn cocktail crisps, very tasty. There was even a couple of antique chairs to balance on. I loved the jukebox, who doesn't like 2 Unlimited at 100 decibels and the locals were very welcoming. There wasn't one who didn't offer to 'take me outside'. Lovely. Theres only two small things that could improve this charming , quaint slice of Scotland. A bucket of petrol and a match.
30 Apr 2008 13:49
Do you know the best thing about this pub? Let me tell you about the old lady in the kitchen. Me and the missus had lunch there the other day and as an afficiando of swearing I must applaud the master class I witnessed from this little OAP. Her combinations and sequencing of 4 letter words was of the highest order, innovative and thought provoking. I have been using her magic ever since dazzling my colleagues with my 21st century Anglo-Saxon. Oh aye, drink-ok, food-ok, bogs-not ok, swearing-Olympic. Congratulations.
30 Apr 2008 13:39
The Fluid Bar and Kitchen, Newcastle
Has a staff to customer ratio of 1 to 500. I bet they are running a 12% wages budget. It takes alot to make the spaceman walk away from a beer pump but standing about with a mouth like a nuns tuppence will do it. Shame , cos its a cut above the other local drivel. They clean their beer lines and I tell thee thats rare round here. I heard the foods ok but I don't care. I like booze in pubs and this ones good enough for this drunk.
30 Apr 2008 13:30
Congratulations to the owners on having no rules and the cheapest drink in town bar the offie, you can do what you want!!!!! I know me and the lads do. Haway doon its like a madhouse. Proper radge.
30 Apr 2008 13:18
If this pub was a bird it'd be the bug faced scratter with the Croydon face-lift you try and snag at closing time. It'll do, but you are lowering yourself partaking. Much better pubs in the street, in your street, in my street, in every street. Wouldn't go in if me hat blew in, keep looking.
30 Apr 2008 13:04
Prince Of Wales, Covent Garden
Awful. awful, awful. I was served mouldy bread here and when I complained it came back scraped off with a tut. They had half full pints sitting under their pumps filled from drip trays, there was no paper in the ladies for the missus, the cutlery was dirty, the place smelt funny, the staff didn't speak English and the Manager was drunk. I'll be back to witness this disaster again but I'll be bringing my own refreshments. Don't waste your money.
30 Apr 2008 12:55
Lets put things in perspective chaps. If you like cask ale, scotch eggs, the sound/odour of old mens flatulence, 120 decibel Scottish hobbits, cardigans, pipes, other men and without doubt fantastic service, this must be heaven. Whats the fascination with the decor and history? Its a pub. All this pub needs is strong ice-cold continental lager, nachos, some banging techno and a couple of crackers behind the counter and we could enter the 21st century. Great locations like this are wasted on weirdy beardys. Get a bag of home brew, a couple cheese slice sarnies (thats what I got in Ye Olde Mitre) and go sit at the Tower of London. The things we could do with some neon, a couple of bandits and a resident dj. Reclaim the Mitre for us youngsters!!!!
9 Apr 2008 16:28
Nastic speaks the truth. Its not what it was, used to be the business for a booze up, burger and the football. I haven't been served off the same person twice, it used to be a local in the town. Its just another average pub with average everything. Damn shame.
9 Apr 2008 16:10
The Beehive, Edinburgh
This is great. Dire? Mentalist. (I think I know this bar in London you might like driefontainen, its called Ye Olde Mitre. Proper pub, does Auld Wobbly toilet chaser and Scotch eggs.) The Beehive has great service, hangover killing breakfast, the best booze yard, music and I had an evening of passion with a barmaid. Thats what your discerning gentlemans evening should be about, The Beehive delivered. Well done.
20 Sep 2008 13:16