Sheldons, Margateback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
Now called The Gallery. Bright and airy bar/eatery daytimes with good drinks offers, club at weekends.
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To coincide with the opening of Turner Contemporary, Sheldon's has undergone what an only be described as a complete transformation.
A new 'gastropub' menu includes such delights as fishfinger rissoto, lung stewed in Irn Bru and served on a bed of grated Pringles and (yum, yum) flash fried pilchard with an energy drink jus.
I visited recently with my probation officer, Marty, and a young girl called Lolita who I met in remand centre.
We had it on our toes with the condom machine.
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Exciting news...Sheldon's is now staging performance art!
On October 11, a Monday, Japanese conceptual artists Mitsuko Umbongo will be spending 12 hours naked, strapped to a Dyson while being force fed a mixture of porridge oats, baked beans and winter radish. The work is called CRITICAL MESS.
To celebrate the barstaff will all dress as characters from All Creatures Great and Small while guest ales will include Old Bumfluff best bitter and Sarah Miles pale ale, which has a real tang to it.
See you all there folks!
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Please don't judge this place from the people sitting outside. Walk through the door and you will discover a wonderfully bohemian gastropub full of poets, painters and wannabee indie pop stars. the food is great too.
I had the deep fried grouse in a white wine sauce with game chips and sprouts.
My companion, Lord Funnock of Dumbarton, had the chicken nuggets.
To drink I had a quart of Old Nursemaid's Knee mild while Lord Funnock, my probation officer this year, had a carton of Umbongo* which he drank with a curly straw.
We will certainly be visiting this pub again, probably on their OAP pole dancing night.
* They drink it in the Congo apparently.
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Things have certainly changed at Sheldon's since the last comment back in Sep 2006.
I visited last week and was pleasantly surprised to find a bohemian pub full of artists with goatee beards and people sitting playing chess. Elsewhere people were sitting alone, reading a drinking wine from the pub's extensive list (they have 13 whites and a mind-boggling 145 reds, including some relatively rare Medocs, some going back to 1995/96, both excellent years).
the food is also good, but simple. I had a red onion tart with a side salad dressed in balsamic chive creation. Delicious.
My companion, Lord Kharzi or Dunfrewshire, had a fried egg sandwich with a crescent of pringles on the side.
I drank a foaming pint of Carling Black label from the wood while his Lordship opted for a half of Sarah Miles Best Bitter, a very pale brew this with a real tang to it.
We will certainly be returning.
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A two minute walk from Yates's, up Margate's pedestrianised High Street will take you to Sheldon's.
I walked in, looked around, turned on my heel and promptly exited. A fine melange of the cream of Margate society - there was the local "Staffy" owners' club having a meeting, a motley selection of Chavettes with mewling brats, and the entire cast of extras from Deliverance. "SOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEE !!!!!!!!!"
I'll leave you to draw your own conclusions - I was rapidly losing the will to live, so curtailed my Margate jaunt by omitting the Sread Eagle and Barnacles.
As regards Sheldon's, superlatives fail me! 0/10.
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THE FOLLOWING REFERS TO "THE ROYAL", HARBOUR PARADE, RAMSGATE.
The Royal does not warrant being added to this site. I am posting a comment here, because Sheldons's is also "A Thorley Tavern".
I, and some friends, had a very good meal in the upstairs restaurant a fortnight ago. The restaurant has excellent views over Ramsgate Royal Harbour. Service was prompt and efficient, the food of a high standard, and not excessively priced. There is a small restaurant bar but no real ale which I can, on this occasion, overlook. No sign of anything microwaved or boil-in-the-bag. No hesitation in giving the restaurant 10/10.
However, the restaurant is only half the story.
Downstairs is the bar, which is so-so during the day. it gets very crowded in the evening, especially at weekends, with doormen having to contriol the number of people going in. It has a late licence and charges for admittance after a certain time - but why? It's only a pub at the end of the day. Admittedly, they do discos, kamikaze ( or whatever that damn' caterwauling is called ) and have live bands. Trouble does flare up occasionally.
As you walk in and approach the bar, your eye is drawn to the nicely signwritten proclamation - "An excellent selection of fine hand-drawn ales". That statement alone is in contravention of Sale of Goods Acts various. There are three engines of which only one is connected, offering a very tired pint of Webster's! It was not busy early evening, but nonetheless, there were dirty table with dirty glasses on them. If you like drinking Alcopops/WKD/Wifebeater and suchlike, fine. Otherwise, go elsewhere. An extremely charitable 1/10.
To summarise, go upstairs to the restaurant, enjoy your meal and the view over the harbour, and leave.
On a different tack, does anyone know why only one of Frank Thorley's London pubs ( "Aldgate Exchange", Whitechapel ) appears on the company website as there are several others on THIS site alone? Answers on a postcard, please..............
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