PUKKA PIE HALF HOUR
Just a note that the Pukka Pie, occasional alien invader and favourite football foodstuff, has made an appearance in pubs. Well one pub. The Lord John Russell (yes that pub) where it was on display in a nice little pie cabinet. My[…]

I DRUNK ALL NIGHT…
And what did I drink? Hook Norton Double Stout.
This was meant to be a couple of swift ones after work in the Pillars Of Hercules. And it is much to the credit of the Hook Norton Double Stout that I did not leave until closin[…]

GIANT PUB BID SPARKS FEARS OF A MINI IBIZA
A usual NIMBY story from the Ham & High, which is made remarkable by the headline which suggests some James Bond villain with an enlarging / shrinking ray.
“Look London, I have made the largest pu[…]

I DRUNK ALL NIGHT…
And what did I drink? Kronenburg Blanc.
Not an easy beer to find, the White Beer from the otherwise relatively bland Kronenburg brewery. The only place I have ever seen it is at the Lord John Russell on Marchmont Street. Last[…]

So after extensive watching of the refurb, I finally roused myself to wander down to the Shaftesbury. What had bothered me about its refurb was
a) cream walls, wood floor hell!
b) the decking out front
c) removal of televisions
d) seeming absence of […]

SMALL HANDS NO EXCUSE
(Cheers to Nick Dastoor for this story). The Mini Fillet Burger is even more mini than the word mini would suggest as ads have been pulled for this micro-burger. Apparent the chicken is a fillet by virtue of it being the meat b[…]

In discussing the ridiculous paid for NUS card with “added value” at a conference I compared it to Pepsi Max. A retort saying that NUS Extra is nothing like Pepsi Max got wondering. What is Pepsi Max for? Really.
Think about it. We alread[…]

I used to go to school with a girl called Saffron, whose family was not from the sub-Indian continent. This is apros of absolutely nothing, except that I went to the worst Indian restaurant I have ever been to in my life the other day, and it was als[…]

You can tell there is a lot of subsidy going into FACT in Liverpool. A multi-purpose art gallery, cinema and media centre it is a Scouse ICA in a barn. The building is so open, airy and large that you do slowly start thinking about wasted space. Not […]

Corporate Social Responsibility. Don’t you just love the sound of a phrase that is instantly abbreviated into meaninglessness as CSR. What does it mean? It means that those of us who run bars are socially responsible for making sure that the pu[…]