Favorite pubs ever (UK edition)
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Favorite pubs ever (UK edition)
Looking for recommendations. Absolute most favorite places!
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Re: Favorite pubs ever (UK edition)
Tan Hill of course. Anybody's favourite after the effort to get there.
Jerusalem tavern, farringdon
Mahogany bar at Wiltons music hall, near tower hill
The old mitre, Holborn circus
Jerusalem tavern, farringdon
Mahogany bar at Wiltons music hall, near tower hill
The old mitre, Holborn circus
I kept thinking "swim as far as you can, swim as far as you can".
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The Royal Standard of England in Forty Green, near Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. My regular pub, in that we go there every fortnight for the quiz.
It purports to be the oldest free house in England. Was used for the interior pub scenes in Hot Fuzz and regularly crops up in Midsomer Murders, so I'm told.
It purports to be the oldest free house in England. Was used for the interior pub scenes in Hot Fuzz and regularly crops up in Midsomer Murders, so I'm told.
He's a simpleton. 200 years ago they wouldn't have let him milk a cow.
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Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem in Nottingham was a favourite when I was a student and it was good to return there for our graduation 25th anniversary last year.
and as mentioned Tan Hill Inn is a great one too, but probably because of the effort to get there.
and as mentioned Tan Hill Inn is a great one too, but probably because of the effort to get there.
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The Southampton Arms in Kentish Town
Ye Old Fighting Cocks in St. Albans
The Chequers in Oxford (although any pub in Oxford would fit the bill)
Ye Old Fighting Cocks in St. Albans
The Chequers in Oxford (although any pub in Oxford would fit the bill)
I run out of talent
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This is great. Keep them coming. I hope we get a good long list of them.
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Do you usually hike to the Tan Hill Inn? Looks like it's a 7-mile hike from the nearest town. Or do you generally drive? (Looks like there's a road...) What's the most fun way to do it?
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Quacoan wrote:Do you usually hike to the Tan Hill Inn? Looks like it's a 7-mile hike from the nearest town. Or do you generally drive? (Looks like there's a road...) What's the most fun way to do it?
You take it in on the Pennine Way. If you haven't walked there you don't deserve a pint.
I kept thinking "swim as far as you can, swim as far as you can".
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Gruntbuggly wrote:Quacoan wrote:Do you usually hike to the Tan Hill Inn? Looks like it's a 7-mile hike from the nearest town. Or do you generally drive? (Looks like there's a road...) What's the most fun way to do it?
You take it in on the Pennine Way. If you haven't walked there you don't deserve a pint.
Yes. I've only ever hiked there myself but you can drive there. Hiking is definitely the fun way to go if the weather is good. It can get very blustery and is pretty miserable in the rain.
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Another isolated pub that I use to enjoy going to is Jamaica Inn in Cornwall which Daphne du Maurier's famous book (and one of Hitchcock's early films) is based on. Sadly these days it's lost its isolated windswept character and is has become a tourist trap complete with souvenir shop and museum http://www.jamaicainn.co.uk/. Worth dropping in if you're passing by mind, especially if you're a fan of the book which I am.
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I always liked this commercial!
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^^^^
I can't believe you ever saw that commercial
Surely they didn't show it in the States.
I can't believe you ever saw that commercial
Surely they didn't show it in the States.
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Probably on YouTube actually, so "always" means a few years, I guess!
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King William in Ipsden, South Oxfordshire :
http://www.kingwilliamipsden.co.uk/?page_id=122
A beautiful listed building, stuck in rolling green fields and hills, with fab real ales too.
http://www.kingwilliamipsden.co.uk/?page_id=122
A beautiful listed building, stuck in rolling green fields and hills, with fab real ales too.
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Why do you want to know eh Quaco?
Hmmm?
Hmmm?
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Inn at Whitewell, Lancashire - It's a bit lah-di-dah, but it's a great old building, with wonderful views from the back, and ticks several boxes for desirable pubbiness including roaring fires, flagstone floors and a mean bowl of soup.
This is the view from the back:
Also the New Inn in Pembridge, Herefordshire, which is actually very old indeed, with wonky floors and very idiosyncratic decor:
Delicious food and drink, well-used by the locals, wonky floors, literally creaks with history.
This is the view from the back:
Also the New Inn in Pembridge, Herefordshire, which is actually very old indeed, with wonky floors and very idiosyncratic decor:
Delicious food and drink, well-used by the locals, wonky floors, literally creaks with history.
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Minnie the Minx wrote:Why do you want to know eh Quaco?
Hmmm?
Having thoughts...
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Peterborough doesn't have many notable drinking holes, but Charters is something else altogether. It's a real ale pub on a barge situated on the River Nene:
They do music nights at the weekend too. It is like nowhere you have ever drunk in before!
They do music nights at the weekend too. It is like nowhere you have ever drunk in before!
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Three of my favourites in London are all run by Sam Smith's - the Princess Louise at Holborn, The Citie of Yorke at Chancery Lane tube, and the Lyceum on the Strand. they all traditional interiors usually with some private booths, and being Sam Smith's pubs the beer is as cheap as Sainsbury's basics range custard creams.
I kept thinking "swim as far as you can, swim as far as you can".
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Went here with Django many times in Chester and hooked up with Kid P and Jumper K for awhile. It's right on the river.
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