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Outstanding little pub, very friendly staff, nice clientele, yummy food and all the Bath Ales and good scotches you could want.
Being Bath Ales run, it occasionally has the fantastic "Rare Hare". Which is worth a taste.
5 Jul 2007 17:16
The Pipe and Slippers, Montpelier
Great if you get there for a pint after work - gets a bit crowded and loud later.
5 Jul 2007 17:14
They do some good ales, but the atmosphere is not fantastic - too many braying trustafarians. Has also been a really smoky pub so not sure how it will fare with the ban.
5 Jul 2007 17:10
What the hell happened to the JP? Just went to Exeter, and popped in for a beer. All of the decor, food, and soul has gone, half the decoration ripped out, it was truly dire, and used to be one of the best pubs in the area. A true shame. We made our excuses and left. Please ignore earlier 5th May post.
24 May 2005 23:21
Stumbled across this place by chance, with a real-ale fanatic friend and girlfriends in tow. Four people crammed in a booth the size of a telephone box drinking some smashing real ales - absolute heaven. Great atmosphere, great beer - wish I lived near!
6 May 2005 00:02
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, Fleet Street
A wonderful gem of a pub. Sam Smith ales :-) excellent dingy Victorian ambience. Best pub I've found in London.
5 May 2005 23:51
Always hugely popular, and really a club bar, Timepiece Bar has, amongst it's many charms as mentioned by others, the unique virtue of being the only place you can just walk into and get a drink after time has been called everywhere else in Exeter. You pay to get in the Club upstairs, but the Bar is basically a pub that opens until 1.30 in the morning. It makes you feel practically continental. Timepiece is an Exeter institution, and rightly so.
5 May 2005 23:48
Rumour has it that new Wetherspoons managers are taken to the Imperial, and told that this is what they should be aiming for. They should be. This is the best [only good?] Wetherspoons Pub I've been in. Great Beer Festivals (bi-annual, I think) curry nights, good and changing selection of ales - and the orangery is something else. Sweeping lawns, big windows, close to the University, St David's Station, and a short walk from the City Centre.
5 May 2005 23:43
This is a very good pub - good beers, food, usually a good atmosphere too. A nice mix of locals, students, and inebriated lecturers. The best pub in the St David's area.
5 May 2005 23:38
This pub has a resident parrot. If that does not persuade you to go there, then go for the history and the unexpectedly huge timber-framed interior. This is the place where Henry V tried his traitorous courtiers on the eve of sailing for France and Agincourt. Watch the Kenneth Brannagh version of Henry V before going there, and feel all cultural for the price of a pint. And try getting the parrot to talk back to you.
5 May 2005 23:24
The Lizard Lounge, Southampton
If you look as scruffy as I normally do, you won't feel at home. However, this place does a superb range of lagers - if you go in when it's nearly empty, in the daytime, it's great. I suspect that if your beauty is of the external rether than the internal variety, you will like it here in the evenings, too.
5 May 2005 23:20
I'd say this is in the lower quartile of Wetherspoons' offerings.
It's a good place to go if it starts raining really hard when you are nearby. I can't think of another reason to go there.
Food and beer same as all Wetherspoons.
5 May 2005 23:18
The Platform Tavern, Southampton
This is one of the best pubs in Southampton. Often has live music of the folk/roots variety - not too large, and has a good variety of drinks to please the real ale or even the more discerning larger drinker.
Great atmosphere - african masks, wall hangings, bespoke stained glass - candles in bottles, friendly staff.
This is a real gem in a city mainly provided-for by big chain sports pubs.
5 May 2005 23:13
This is a superb little pub - friendly. a welcoming atmosphere (think Parisian bar - checked table cloths, candles in bottles, plenty of decoration and a pleasing patina on the walls) - always full of people and chat. Beer is very reasonably priced (although the real ale drinker won't get a wide selection). There's an upstairs too, which is less crowded than downstairs usually. Downstairs can be fairly packed, as the size of the place is pretty small. Upstairs there are large tables and big open sash windows.
5 May 2005 23:08
A good solid little pub with a friendly atmosphere and an open fireplace in cold weather. The food is good, and they have a reasonable selection of beers. It is a great place for University staff to go for lunch, and is certainly the nicest* pub within easy walking distance of the University's Highfield campus. The Crown caters for groups (but make sure you book about 24 hours in advance if you want to eat - they fill-up quickly!).
* It has the edge over the closer Stile pub - but it is a close thing
3 May 2005 13:59
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The Highbury Vaults, Bristol
Properly nice pub - cheeky staff, great enclosed outside drinking area, higgledy-piggeldy inside, and proper ciders and ales on tap.
5 Jul 2007 17:20