BITE user comments - braicewell
Comments by braicewell
The Artichoke, Shenfield Common
Was better before it 'went on fire' and was reinvented as a sort of Happy Eater for people who are too scared to drive on a motorway.
U used to stretch out on the grass outside.
What a shame.
23 Mar 2005 11:20
This is the future and it is MURDER.
Every town gets the pubs it deserves and this place tells you all you need to know about Brentwood.
Brentwood's historic and best pubs dating from 200 years ago or more were at the other end of the High Street and are now a Kay Eff Cee and a Caffe Uno.
The clump of chain pubs at the west end of the road have all the charm of... well, Brentwood, or Tipsy McStagger's Good-Time Drinking Emporium, as the town is more properly referred to.
Anyone who wants to defend the Litten Tree, fine, well I'm sorry, but if you have to be told.....
An all this nonsense about it being a Harold Wood lot that spoils the town's reputation, is just denial.
23 Mar 2005 11:17
The Bald Faced Stag, East Finchley
mym,
Thanks for the advice, I will give Madden's another look as I must have hit it in a lull the last time. Happens to the best of us.
23 Mar 2005 11:06
The Windsor Castle, East Finchley
You could die in here without noticing. The beer is very good however and a lock in is available.
The place has a little historic value too, being an original ale house on the drovers' trail from the North that dates from before East Finchley was thought of and which eventually became the damp alley leading to the station.
There is a small library to fill those hour-long gaps between conversation, including a Guinesss Book of Records from about 1480 and 'Britain from the Air'.
Old school, with emphasis on the old.
23 Mar 2005 11:04
This place sells lovely beer. It is a pleasure to find somewhere that still cares about serving proper beer aimed at men, not boys and builders.
But it is always empty apart from an old man with a secret woe.
23 Mar 2005 09:35
The Bald Faced Stag, East Finchley
This is a 'fun pub' - calling this a 'pub' seems to be just plain wrong. I am sure it serves its purpose, but this is just another example of a struggling corner pub being turned into a ruthless machine to extract cash. So it's a chav magnet, a lot of real pubs are too. When I walk past and see lights flashing inside, whole area bristling with CCTV i wonder why there is a market for this. But I think that when I walk past KFC and Past Times too.
The real mystery is why there are NO decent pubs in East Finchley and very little pubgoing. Two pubs have been knocked down by market place in tha last two years and they are not missed. Others either side of the high road are boarded up. You would think no one lives here but the whole area has nothing but flats.
Highgate has 5 decent pubs and Hampstead 15. East Finchley has none. The problem is not the chav magnets but the fact that only the chavs and the old men with dogs are catered for. The rest of us can walk to the Spaniards.
23 Mar 2005 09:33
The Thatchers Arms, Great Warley
This is the perfect spot to put a pub, by the village green on a curve of a beautiful country road.
It is pretty bland, but the beer is ok and it feels a long way from Brentwood High Street and Harold Hill, wven though it isn't.
23 Mar 2005 11:22