The Most Souless Pub in Cardiif...Nominations please?

[welshtart]

I went to the Waterguard last night, it was like stepping backinto a timewarp to a left over 70's purpose built estate pub.

Too bright, it looked like a waiting area for an airport and the beer was all kegged with those tiny pull down levers!

Coupled to that it looks like an office from the outside.

All in all 0/10

never actually been in this place but then again i didn't actually realise what it was when i was shagging my ex down there outside, wasn't til i looked up and focused and noticed people staring out of the window.......oops!

 

[Gentleman Taff]

How does the Vulcan rate? Can we have a meet there? I'm too paranoid to go in on my own. I bet the rugger bugger crowd wouldn't be seen dead in there...

The Vulcan is the best pub in Cardiff 'bar' none

The first time we went in there it really impressed with a range of proper nutters that you would once have expected in the Cambrian. There was the guy at the bar selling chicken pieces, which he was cutting up to order on the bar with a pocket knife, the 'fighting vicar', sat at one table with a dog collar he had made from a piece of plastic and matching cross stood in an empty bottle and the obligatory guy dressed as Elvis!

My brother in law who is an Aussie used to love it, I think it was his favourite pub in the world!

As for having a meet in there... well everyone should go there...all the time....as it is probably threatened by the new St Davids 2... so use it or lose it!

My first post by the way........hello

 

[Dai Sheep]

Anyone remember Berlins? I think it only served bottles, there were re-cycling bottle banks everywhere in the club/pub. No seats that I can remember ( you drink faster if you stand )...fucking appauling.

Re. The Vulcan... more soul than The Baltimore on soul night.

Walkabout leading so far.

Ahh Berlins, great for the £1 a bottle offers. Very hostile atmosphere there at times though, you had to drink quick and get out.

No one mentioned Kiwi's yet? Or are we sticking strictly to pubs. Kiwis used too be a good laugh, gone shit now - but you still cant move in there.

 

[Col_Buendia]

Fuckin quality first post Gentleman Taff, and on behalf of the straggly bunch of Welsh posters in this particular forum, welcome to the boards. There's a bullshit routine that the luvvies in the General forum pass off on new posters about hobnobs and shit like that, but personally it doesn't wash with me so I'm not gonna lay it on you.

Are you in Cardiff? Can we expect you at the next failed meet, then?

 

[fishtail]

I'm a huge fan of the Vulcan, truly a 'proper' pub. Not sure how the influx of students into the new digs just up the road will affect it though.

 

[Gentleman Taff]

Fuckin quality first post Gentleman Taff, and on behalf of the straggly bunch of Welsh posters in this particular forum, welcome to the boards. There's a bullshit routine that the luvvies in the General forum pass off on new posters about hobnobs and shit like that, but personally it doesn't wash with me so I'm not gonna lay it on you.

Are you in Cardiff? Can we expect you at the next failed meet, then?

Ta mate, so we don't pass out bara brith here then, no?

As far as the next failed meet, yeh I'm in Cardiff, and would love to, just tell me where and when not to make it and I won't be there!

 

[Biffo]

yeah , it was called buzz back then

D'oh. Forgot about that bit. Cheers for the reminder

 

[SeniorSbagliato]

Can't believe no-one's put in a bad word for The Owain Glyndwr, that said, it's Walkabout innit, has to be.

 

[Yoj]

Fair play to Callaghans, I know its the hotel bar of the Holiday Inn, but they make more effort putting stuff on than any pub in Cardiff.
They even had a two day 'Microfestival' with indoor and outdoor stages.

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was that on bank holiday in august cos my housemate was first act on second day there.

 

[RubberBuccaneer]

Can't believe no-one's put in a bad word for The Owain Glyndwr, that said, it's Walkabout innit, has to be.

Well the OG has had its moments, although usually a place I avoid like the plague, we were walking past it about midnight the other week ( friday I think ), when I heard the Stooges coming from inside..I shit you not.

You got to go in and have a look haven't you? It was some odd punky/nu-metal sparsley attended night.
But they did play the Dead Kennedys for the old men.

 

[SeniorSbagliato]

But they did play the Dead Kennedys for the old men.

Well that's alright then, nomination withdrawn.

 

[Brockway]

Aesthetically, the most soulless pub in Cardiff is The Goscombe in Canton - looks like an estate agents. And serves beer that might have been brewed by estate agents. Fortunately one or two of the er... colourful local characters, manage to redeem it by being a bit engagingly mental.

 

[lunatrick]

I thought the vulcan had been knocked down? or am I imagining things?

My votes :-

Roath Park (City Road) - inside the lounge feels like a cheap caravan, awful dump.

Billabong - about as australian as a pint of fosters, themepub dross at it's worst.

 

[SeniorSbagliato]

The Goscombe in Canton.

I always thought that that was way too posh a name for a Canton pub, what were they thinking?

 

[Brockway]

I'm guessing it's named after local artist and sculptor William Goscombe John. I'm all in favour of pub names having some kind of local significance, so fair dos.

 

[RubberBuccaneer]

I'm guessing it's named after local artist and sculptor William Goscombe John. I'm all in favour of pub names having some kind of local significance, so fair dos.

Should be called The Simmo!

 

[RubberBuccaneer]

Roath Park (City Road) - inside the lounge feels like a cheap caravan, awful dump.
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True but the back bar is to savour, Ok it was better when you couldn't see inside, but it still feels like a cross between Cheers and The Dirty Dozen.

 

[Brockway]

When are you going to update your blog? It's an integral part of the blogging concept. Watch out for an interview with Wales's latest porn sensation, Isabel Ice, on my website in the next week or so.

The Halfway, in Pontcanna - a good pub ruined by a recent glitzy makeover.

 

[RubberBuccaneer]

When are you going to update your blog? It's an integral part of the blogging concept. Watch out for an interview with Wales's latest porn sensation, Isabel Ice, on my website in the next week or so.

The Halfway, in Pontcanna - a good pub ruined by a recent glitzy makeover.

I can't get the pictures to go right mate, It all went a bit wrong.

Have you got anything on Doug Mountjoy daughter?

 

[mtbskalover]

was in varsity for a little while last nite, not my choice.

thats place sucks! expensive, lack of bar staff, jocks.

 

[Gentleman Taff]

was in varsity for a little while last nite, not my choice.

thats place sucks! expensive, lack of bar staff, jocks.

Yeh, v. poor boozer. The other one next to it is a bag o' shite as well.

 

[Col_Buendia]

Yeh, v. poor boozer. The other one next to it is a bag o' shite as well.

Crockertons? My chums who work on Park Place tell me that the place is a madhouse for fights, like even by Cardiff standards

 

[Gentleman Taff]

Crockertons? My chums who work on Park Place tell me that the place is a madhouse for fights, like even by Cardiff standards

Yeh, I went in there once, (I was tempted to say 'my friend told me....', but I have to admit to going in there once) and there was an African chap in the bogs giving out aftershave and the like, ( a recent phenomenen, which I find very baffling ), who got started on by some limp dick, gel haired little scrotes, for no apparent reason (although sadly I can probably guess ).

The tale has a happy ending tho' as they didn't anticipate that everyone in the bogs at the time, thought they were out of order, jumped in/fetched the bouncers who kicked them out, pronto

 

[Brockway]

"Have you got anything on Doug Mountjoy daughter?"

The one who went topless in the tabloids? No. Do any Cardiff pubs have strippers anymore or is that old hat since the advent of pole dancing? Have to admit I've never seen a stripper in a Cardiff pub. Anyone like to fess up?

 

[Dai Sheep]

The Claude in Roath is a shit hole, bad vibes in there as well.

 

[Col_Buendia]

"Have you got anything on Doug Mountjoy daughter?"

The one who went topless in the tabloids? No. Do any Cardiff pubs have strippers anymore or is that old hat since the advent of pole dancing? Have to admit I've never seen a stripper in a Cardiff pub. Anyone like to fess up?

Never mind the strippers, is there "pole dancing" in Cardiff?

(Psssst - where? )

 

[King Biscuit Time]

The Claude in Roath is a shit hole, bad vibes in there as well.

I love the Claude - its my local.
I must admit I usually drink in the snug bar bit rather than the pool tables and karaoke side.

Can't see how anyone can fault the old mans bit though.

Varsity - now that is a shitheap. And greyfriars rd is the new fight capital of cardiff - it's offical. I've seen a few great fights there, and the place is usually strewn with blood and teeth of a Sunday morning.

 

[SeniorSbagliato]

is there "pole dancing" in Cardiff?

Lech Walesa's Riverdance at St Davids. Got a spare ticket if you want it?

Oh, I see, yes, Fantasy Lounge for you me old mate, ask for Katie.

 

[mtbskalover]

Varsity - now that is a shitheap. And greyfriars rd is the new fight capital of cardiff - it's offical. I've seen a few great fights there, and the place is usually strewn with blood and teeth of a Sunday morning.

lloyds has westons cider tho, and its on the walk into town. I have to agree i have seen many fights recently comapred to anywhere else, not that i really hang out in any where else where fights reguarly happen. Being on the same street as creation is just asking for trouble.

where am i going 2mos nite? Wed nite was varsity, 2nite went to lloyds (crockertons), so fri is, oh no, oh no, tyger tyger or creation! Eek! lucky i wont get let into either of them then really.

 

[Col_Buendia]

I must admit I usually drink in the snug bar bit rather than the pool tables and karaoke side.

Can't see how anyone can fault the old mans bit though.

KBT yesterday.


Seriously, though, I have to agree with him... the Claude seems a bit schizo, I wouldn't even contemplate the front bar, but the snug is a real delight.