design me your pub

[waterloowelshy]

Who else can't see my fab picture of a lovely pub?

dont think anyone can. though if it fits my requirements i would like to go there now.

 

[sojourner]

My ideal boozer would be a rural type place, a bit of a mucky shambles inside, with a secluded beer garden outside, a load of guest Ales, a big fuck of roaring fire and a landlord that turned a blind eye to discreet skinning up in the beer garden.

Sounds great

I would also add a pool room, that you could smoke in, no fucking gambling machines, a jukey that you could only hear in the pool room, and some fine wines. Oh, and a really good chef

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

dont think anyone can. though if it fits my requirements i would like to go there now.

I can see it in your quote box.

You can smoke there and it has a lovely roaring fire. There is also a dog.

 

[spanglechick]

All the seating is comfy leather sofas and armchairs.

There is nice cider on tap.

They don't charge for soda water.

They sell chocolates behind the bar.

The beer garden is a suntrap.

No dogs allowed. At all. Except guide dogs.

There are shelves of interesting books for anyone to read.

Food (other than chocolate) available at all times of day.

 

[mr steev]

A wide range of beers and cider and friendly, competent bar staff
Secluded beer garden
Smoked glass windows (not sitting in a gold fish bowl)
Pool room with pool table and bar billiards
Comfy seats and an open fires
Smoke room with ashtrays and bongs
Decent jukebox (but not too loud)
A menu with several veggie options
Friendly customers
Lock-ins and a slate

 

[oneflewover]

The Adelphi in Leeds. 4 rooms all with a lightly different atmosphere. Good ales and lagers. Aberdeen Angus burger with Maris Piper chips. Varied customer base, students, hippies, gay and trendies. Music as a background, upstairs function room with gigs. Newspapers, books, arm chairs and sofas. Get a tab with trivial pusuit card as ID, place markers have photos of staff with their favourite drinks. All round good pub. There is only me that spoils it!

 

[SpookyFrank]

-No fewer than 8 real ales on tap, as well as a couple of local ciders.
-Fine selection of single malt on the top shelf.
-Tasty, simple and healthy food at sensible prices.
-Private but spacious beer garden backing on to a lake, or possibly a canal.
-Nice background music; lots of jazz but with some nice electronic stuff and a bit of classic 60's rock too.
-Back room with comfy sofas and armchairs and a piano and a guitar for public use.
-A snug. Not enough snugs these days. The snug will have pictures of old cricket teams and a couple of local landscape paintings in it.
-A big bookshelf full of lovely books to read if you're just hiding from the wife for a couple of hours of an afternoon.
-A witty sign behind the bar that was actually written by a member of the bar staff and not bought from some shop somewhere.

 

[Herbsman.]

A bike themed pub for me please

If I opened a pub, I’d call it something like The Iron Horse, The Frame and Forks, The Hub, or The Handle Bar. Ideally I would prefer a bicycle version of the ubiquitous Horse & Jockey but ‘The Bike & Rider’ sounds boring and unimaginative. I thought of ‘The Rouleur’, but Rapha would probably sue me*; The Carb and Fibre is genius - but it sounds crap.

Anyway - my pub would have a beer garden with a roofed, secure bike park in one corner. It would have bicycle artwork on the walls - some photos by these people, some paintings by Taliah Lempert, some lovely vintage bicycles hanging up on the walls. During the day I’d sell plenty of freshly made fruit smoothies, bananas, cakes, energy drinks, sarnies, coffee and hot nutritious high-carb food specially prepared in our kitchen for hungry cyclists.

We’d have plenty of real ales and quality lagers, ciders, wines and spirits on sale. We’d have our own custom ales: Handle Bar Ale, Pedal Pusher Pale Ale, Tyred and Cranky, Smut Pedaller Porter, Saddle Sore Stout, Pot Belge Bitter, Lycra Lout Lager, Yellow Jersey etc. as well as Cycle Rider Cider. However, you’d be unwise to ask for a snakebite (ha…ha)

Of course, we would not be without bottles of Eddy Merckx wine.

Despite the bicycle theme, the pub be fully independent - not part of a chain…

(ha… ha.)

The pub that I used to work at had a massive selection of shite books all purchased from a local charity shop. Never saw anyone reading them. I would incorporate a proper library system into my pub. Full of cycling books, of course

I would book Rollapaluza every month. We would have our own cycling club for staff and customers to join, and would go on rides every sunday morning (after opening for breakfast). We'd organize various other events such as bicycle polo and crit races in our huge, carless 'car park'

I'd have a replica of eddy merckx's hour record bike and the bar would be made of old velodrome boards. some of the pump handles would have handlebar grips, brake levers and shifters on them

All the beers/ales/stouts/ciders etc. would be quality drinks from local breweries, all the spirits would be quality single malt, the drinkers would choose the weekend's music by uploading/voting for tracks on our website, which they could listen to first.

The beer garden would contain plenty of indigenous trees and bushes, and a large pond - all with plenty of natural wildlife - newts, frogs, various birds, red squirrels. Maybe even a wolf, foxes, snakes and some deer,

This pub could only work in a dreamworld, for it is a truly ridiculous idea, due to the fact that I am pissed on Sam Smith's Taddy Porter.

 

[Herbsman.]

Yeah Mon, all my mates who are from rural places love city boozers, and vice versa with the city mates

Greener grass, innit.

i like a pub you can wander into on your own with a couple of newspapers and while away the day reading and drinking on your own if you fancy

Nice quiet cosy "old man" pubs are the best kind.

 

[cyberfairy]

http://www.thelockinn.co.uk/cafe.html Says its a cafe but plenty of people just drinking by the canal all day) and http://www.walcotstreet.com/ get my vote apart from not having cheap doubles and also being 400 miles away now. But friendly live in cats, fires, fires, hippies, good food and papers make a perfect pub along with friendly people, a comfy seat and warmth

 

[chainsaw cat]

Come to think of it, the Old Trip to Jerusalem.

Getting it right for over 900 years.

(except for the annoying tourists)

 

[paolo]

-No fewer than 8 real ales on tap, as well as a couple of local ciders.
-Fine selection of single malt on the top shelf.
-Tasty, simple and healthy food at sensible prices.
-Private but spacious beer garden backing on to a lake, or possibly a canal.
-Nice background music; lots of jazz but with some nice electronic stuff and a bit of classic 60's rock too.
-Back room with comfy sofas and armchairs and a piano and a guitar for public use.
-A snug. Not enough snugs these days. The snug will have pictures of old cricket teams and a couple of local landscape paintings in it.
-A big bookshelf full of lovely books to read if you're just hiding from the wife for a couple of hours of an afternoon.
-A witty sign behind the bar that was actually written by a member of the bar staff and not bought from some shop somewhere.

And reasonably price rooms upstairs, in case you don't fancy leaving.

Let me know when it opens. And don't tell anyone else.

 

[lynne8]

<ignores Shippy>



A load of Inspector Morse* was filmed in the Turf in Oxford, which is a fantastic pub (apart from all the students and tourists**, mind)

*the pub bits, not the gristly murder bits
** who make the gristly murder bits possible, nay, desirable

damn tourists anyway a bit of the gristly murder bits would be okay too!

 

[lynne8]

Inspector Morse was also filmed at the Trout Inn - which I've been too. Lovely pub. Good food and a nice walk along the river too.

that looks lovely, thanks for the pic, I'm sitting here in Canada with our fake English pubs feeling jealous!! (but the food is not bad..)

 

[Herbsman.]

And reasonably price rooms upstairs, in case you don't fancy leaving.

Of course! Brilliant idea

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

You sit on beds. Then, if you get too hammered, you can just go to sleep.

 

[MsShirlLaverne]

My pub would have no juke box or stupid slot machines. It would have a different exhibition on the walls every month so that there'd always be something new to look at. It would have ashtrays even if the punters couldn't use them. It wouldn't have carpet on the floors, just solid oak boards and if it had curtains they'd be light and bright. It would have a good selection of real ales and good wines and live music as often as possible. It would allow dogs but not children.

 

[moose]

Mine'd have me, Aqua and MsShirl Laverne and a large bottle or rum, and one of vodka, and a large ashtray. Heaven!

 

[chainsaw cat]

You sit on beds. Then, if you get too hammered, you can just go to sleep.

That's not a pub, it's a doss house.


Bloody colonials.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

That's not a pub, it's a doss house.


Bloody colonials.

At our doss houses, the beds are in separate rooms.

Boy, you people are more uninhibited than I imagined!