“Platters for sharing” Often offered, regularly ordered but never any good at all – it’s the pub sharing platter. For more than the price of two meals, you can recreate that crap wedding reception buffet vibe by ordering a se[…]

Some things that go wrong with pub nachos:
1. You get those horrible bland/salty tortilla chips.
2. Plate is superhot from being microwaved. Microwaving nachos is criminal – they go soggy, chips and cheese get hot but salsa remains cold. Urgh[…]

The Virtual Irish Pub: as if real Irish theme pubs aren’t bad enough. On my visit there were forty benighted ‘virtual drinkers’, almost all of whom were congregated at the ‘Front Door’ area. No sign of any chat going on,[…]

Rat And Parrot Counter-Theory: but that mocks sense. For surely you’d want monster VFM songs such as “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” to be on in the afternoon when nobody could hear them, not taking up valuable punter-time later.
Usefu[…]

Rat And Parrot Theory I: Last time I was in said hell hole we were subjected to much of the collected works of that old rock dinosaur the Pinkus Flloydus. Just guessing but is that section of the juker topped and tailed by other suitably long songed […]

Mystery Pub Warnings II: in the Rat And Parrot last night at Victoria Place (yes, yes, I know I shouldn’t be going into the Rat And Parrot, but Simon had won a fantasy golf tournament and was treating us all to drinks, and for free beer I&#8217[…]

Stern warnings in pubs. The Swan – a hithertoo rather pleasant drinking hole on the booze hound heaven twenty yards that is Cosmo Place has taken to placing the following signs on some of their tables.
“This table reserved for four or mor[…]

Several days later – although in the grip of Armadillo Fever you lose all track of time – and I can move my hands and eyes well enough to type out my long-promised entry on Jeremy Beadle. Long-promised I say, not long-awaited. Anyway, app[…]

Several days later – although in the grip of Armadillo Fever you lose all track of time – and I can move my hands and eyes well enough to type out my long-promised entry on Jeremy Beadle. Long-promised I say, not long-awaited. Anyway, app[…]

More on The Blue Posts: This time, the Rupert Street one which is pound for pound one of the best boozers in the area. Of course this is not exactly saying much. We are in the environs of Leicester Square and every spit you try out will hit a bad pub[…]