Temple Bar, Norwichback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
not a very pleasant bar - no ales - no atmosphere , dead beat and filthy - never again , in same league as Prince of Denmark and Cat and the Fiddle - file under D for Dump
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If the Temple Bar burned down I wouldn�t expect the insurance claim to exceed ten pounds, which is exactly the amount of money I suspect has been spent on the place in the last twenty years, including cleaning materials. The ladies toilets resemble a Ministry of Defence germ warfare manufacturing facility. The whole place is just falling apart. Held together with tape and panel pins. There is more tape on the carpets than there is carpet. Friendly enough but what a dump.
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Okay pub, couple of pool tables and sky sports. no real ales.
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This one of my fave pubs when I lived in Norwich!
can't believe you're dissing it.
Haven't been there in a while but can't imagine it's changed that much... I just hope that Mick's still there holding the bar up!!
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Pub on a roundabout. Not a good start. Looked through the window. Fosters everywhere. Feck that - fed up. Back to hotel for my free ten minutes on red hot channel at 11pm.
anonymous - 16 Mar 2006 11:43 |
The Temple Bar (TB) is like a boiled egg: nice and safe, but hardly the sort of thing you`d miss if it was suddenly wiped from existence. Sure, you might note its disappearance with a sad frown � the sort you usually use when you hear some vague 70s comedian has just popped his clogs. But in the end when it came to surveying a world without the TB you wouldn�t exactly feel your heart tearing apart.
This mild apathetic reaction really comes down to the fact that the bar is one of the many watering holes across the land that are the drinking equivalent of Celine Dion: so middle of the road they are mildly nauseous. The interior is uncommercialised and fairly organic, but ultimately an uninspired light wooden panel effort with a range of fittings, pictures and background music that really we`ve all experienced many, many bloody times before. The drink selection is standard, with a few flourishes of choice on the ale front and the clientele is erm, well I don�t know, I often slipped into such a cerebral trance in the TB that I didn�t actually clock whether anyone else was still breathing. However, I understand that, bizarrely, the TB is a popular stop off point for pub crawls and the Uni rugby team. Its location, on the very edge of the city centre I suppose makes this assertion fairly logical, but I have to admit there is part of me that feels anyone who suggests the TB is anything other that placid and can contain more than three people at any point is probably a day release patient with a few brain issues.
In the end I suppose the dull character of this bar can be appealing, especially on a lazy weekend day when the mood for a quiet paper and a pint takes over. However, beyond this occasional urge to be middle aged, I cant really think of any situation where you`d want to go in company or in high spirits to a place that literally feels grey.
In the end, and rather fittingly, the Temple Bar has to receive a middling 5/10.
anonymous - 17 Feb 2006 17:06 |
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