Table service in pubs.
Reserved tables in pubs.
Pubs whose doors blow open constantly on a windy day.
Pubs which only have tables with knives and forks on it.
Punter with blonde dyed mullets and stupid hats.
That’ll just be annother day bouzing[…]

Completely fantastic (if somewhat old-skool in design) site devoted to collecting rum labels from around the world. Hours of happy browsing await as you try and find the roughest-looking rotgut on the planet. I am posting this because I am in a celeb[…]

Yay! I mentioned some months back that I couldn’t find my favourite noodles anymore.
I made an error which might have hampered my search; they weren’t made Amoy – they were a Blue Dragon product. I’ve emailed them to find out […]

Hog’s Wash: Rebranding outside the pub sphere is something I’m quite sanguine about. If the criticism is that it’s a cosmetic and meaningless change then why get worked up about it? Within the world of booze though rebranding goes h[…]

I Crave Salad.
Not a publog regular shout but I’ll let you know how it went tomorrow. Will it be Caesar, Waldorf, tomato? Will it be lime juice and coriander, will there be meat, fish, potato salad or croutons? I can guarantee however, there wi[…]

All Bar One Rox ur all etc
I was about to post this when Tom’s original Firkin comment appeared and then cz I’d got so bolshy defending Pret against the ruralpolitans sane universe I hung fire, at least to read properly where the argument[…]

The conversation about pub chains got me thinking about when a chain is not a chain? Or at least do we consider Sam Smiths pubs to be a chain? We talk about them as if they are, and there are definite aspects of their pubs with which one can happily […]

I am not much of a breakfast person but my boyfriend urged me to take up this habit. So I relented. Happily. Breakfast this morning consisted of muesli, extra raisins, dried banana, dried apricots, dried apple rings – yes, yes, I love dried fru[…]

Almost two years ago, publog supremo mr barang and I managed to have a conversation that came, somehow, to the conclusion that MARMITE CHICKEN would be a marvellous thing. In our world this was: 1. Take a whole chicken 2. Slather it in marmite 3. R[…]

Screen Cuisine: Done well, lists are writing tapas.[…]