What Is You Would Like From Your Local Pub

[Bobbisox1]

For me it’s a quiet drink with friends in a relaxed atmosphere,if I want food I’d go to a restaurant, now it’s where people go to eat pub grub, with children gunning around screeching , I think thd traditional pub as we knew it has sadly gone forever, mind you there’s one beside us , he’s not a tenant , he’s a free house, Cody with a log fire in the Winter so well named the Travellers Rest

[douglas9401]

Not gone forever then?

[-SharonA-]

Most pubs here are very rowdy, overcrowded, overpriced & uncomfortable!!
The vision I have of a pub, is one of those quaint country inns with a roaring fire & a cordon bleu menu.

[Ken4155]

Surely if the premises are large enough, pubs can cater for nearly all tastes. The one i used to frequent (now an Indian restaurant) had a large room where we had live music on an almost weekly basis. A tap-room where the old guys could swear to their hearts content and gamble at cards. It also had a 'snug' where Ena Sharples types could sit and look down their noses at other folk and, in the back, the 'games' room; 2 pool tables, dartboard and jukebox. No meals were served but you could always get a sandwich or a pie.

[Ken4155]

Sharon, those country pubs in your vision usually come with a risk. You either get asked 101 questions by the local bar-room bore (Where you from then? Just passing through are you? Where are you headed? etc etc etc). Or, a tad more sinister, "Go. Stay on the road. Keep clear of the moors." :-))

[gulliver1]

"What is what you would like from your local Pub"....Free Beer !.......

[barry1010]

Spoilt for choice for pubs where I live - the large, modern pub with cheap meals and kids; traditional pub with fire and no kids; pub with live music 5 nights a week including regular folk music and jazz; a gastro pub; a gin bar; a pub that serves curries; a dive with snooker table and youths.
Close enough lovely country pubs to take a taxi.

[barry1010]

Oh - a 'peaky blinders' themed pub has just opened, too. I think it's missed the boat.

[Bobbisox1]

The pubs on Newcastle quayside are quite an attraction for both all over the UK and at this time of year, Scandinavia which I’m sure they’d find cheap for them, to me they’re overpriced with no atmosphere

[choux]

Buffalo Bill at the Travelers Rest, the steaks are amazing! ;) Did you mean cozy with a log fire, Bobbi?

I think of pubs either in a village setting or at the side
of a main road, literally for travelers to pull in for a rest and some fortification. With drink/drive laws there has to be more to pubs than just the booze on offer.

Agree with you though on children being allowed to run riot around customers, but I do not class all of them that way.

When I go to Ireland I am always surprised by the lack of pubs on main routes, all you can see are those that have been shut down/abandoned :(

[Bobbisox1]

That’s so sad when you see the rate of closures choux, I think this happened when Breweries were told to they no longer had the monopoly and were forced to sell so many of their pubs into the hands of the private sector who got greedy and brought in tenants to run them , the better the pub did, the higher the rents went up till tenants could no longer afford to run them

[pastafreak]

No local pubs....ah, no. There is one...about a ten minute walk away. Friendly...though I only went in once when my visiting daughter suggested a pub crawl. (the other 2 pubs we went into were closed )The clientel is older, so it's rather sedate. Which is a good thing. My rowdy pub days were back in Brooklyn when the ex Mr Pasta and I would be in the pub until almost closing time sometimes...5am in those days. The pub was called The Gaslight...

Then we got married and little Pasta came along....

[Bobbisox1]

I found the pubs in NY very different to here Pasta , even the Irish pub was different

[SparklyKid]

Big buxom bar staff.

[rowanwitch]

There is a local brewery to me, they have a chain of traditional pubs selling real ale (no carling ever crosses their thresholds) some of them do cobs and pies but no other food. Children not allowed in some, in others only where there is seating away from thebars. No tv, no jukeboxes or other music In the winter real fires, They range from a big city centre one (the Wellington)to small traditional locals.

[pastafreak]

The pub I mentioned was in what was an up and coming neighbourhood. So a mix of us youngsters who were buying run down Victorian row houses to do up, along with lots of old timers and a few unsavoury types. Also young, illegal Irish...this was early 80s. Now, you'd have to sell your granny plus your first born to buy a house there...and all the pubs are posh bars. Loved it though...lots of cheap beer and good music.

[Bobbisox1]

That was in the days of Oliver and films like it Sparklykid most bar staff are 40 somethings smart in appearance then you have the quayside where they dance on the bar tops scantily clad or are inside giant bird cages and out of reach of dirty old men ( or women ) haha

[naomi24]

There’s a lot of money to be made from food and that’s why pubs serve meals. Most wouldn’t survive if they depended upon drinkers only.

[AuntPG]

OH goes to the WMC in the village, no kids allowed in the bar and cheap beer. I sometimes go with him but its not my scene really. Our village pub is lovely in the winter, just locals, log fire etc, but full of caravanners in the summer and their feral kids.

[choux]

naomi, unless supermarkets stopped selling alcohol in favour of off licences with rigid opening times :)

[dave50]

I like a pub that has live music.