Dump The Pubs – Fairer Prices for UK Drinkers. Whilst this site is most amusing, and has more than a fair point – I think they should have picked a better name for the campaign. Dump The Pubs suggests that we should be attacking pubs rath[…]

A desert of pubs – that’s what the Finchley Road north of the wee bit too quaint Ye Olde Swiss Cottage is. Its all Supasnaps and empty restaurants. Where a major thoroughfare like this needs its pubs, it has hoardings over old cafes which[…]

All this scratching is making me itch. To placate Tom’s fear below I believe an in depth discussion of the scratching issue is exactly the kind of thing this publog should be doing. And for fear of alienating any US audience, said article about[…]

According to this article, some scamster in the States has published a diet book which makes use of pork scratchings (or ‘pork rinds’ as they are even less tastefully called over there) in its recipes. So sales of scratchings to dieting w[…]

The main problem with KP Pork Crackling is that the size of the bags is preposterous even by pork scratching bag standards. The huge transparent sacks of scratchings you can get in the North cannot surely be in competition with this microscopic speci[…]

Personal thoughts on the scratching merely from a Southerners perspective. The bags featured in the Guide To Pork Scratchings have not been sighted south of the Watford Gap (with the possible exception of Butchers’ Choice, which I fear is a no[…]

‘Can you look after our stuff mate?’ You, the pub drinker, nod mid-sentence in your own fantastic conversation as nearby table couple nip off. What for, you vaguely wonder keeping an eye on the toilet stairs. (This occurs in the Crouch E[…]

While I personally feel that the Pint Pot has been unjustly maligned – the roof garden is very nice bar the occasional chill breeze or fight over packets of crisps – I must take issue with this “community spirit” malarkey. Com[…]

Well its obvious that using Blogger has already quadrupled the number of people looking at the pub reviews. I have already had one correspondant bristling with our look at the The Pint Pot (Pentonville Road, Islington).
Purdy writes “Well mist[…]

EGG AND BARLEY – A Review of the Bull & Gate, Kentish Town: Wow, we’ve only been live for two hours and already I have had a mailed in contribution. (Not strictly true, this was sent to me, unsolicited a good week ago and now I have […]