What is your local pub like?

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1. Aspirations of a gastropub but with terrible food, old coaching inn but now has a Travelodge attached. Had too many managers come and do the place over in the last decade, not much soul left.

2. For local people

   We’ll have no trouble here!

3. The Hatch Gate, Burghfield. Less a pub now, more an Indian restaurant. The bar itself is 300 years old, so about as traditional as you can get. We go every Friday with my wife’s fellow teachers. It’s never packed out but a nice enough atmosphere and a fantastic curry. The owner is a really nice chap who does a lot for the local community. He’s started hosting classic car meets to drive business (one on this Saturday if you’re in the Reading area!)

4. Our local village pub is ran by a lovely couple, it’s welcoming, spacious and puts on great events. It’s truly the heart of our village.

   It’s also £7.50 a fucking pint so I seldom visit.

5. No nonsense boozer, owned by landlord, looks after the staff. Reasonably priced food, welcoming old building untouched for decades. Could have better ale selection, but wouldn’t have enough turnover. Dogs and kids welcome. Pours my pint before I’ve asked. A proper pub.

6. Local as in nearest: absolute shit. Full of cokeheads and the drinks are far too expensive. They do have a pool table and a dartboard, but they’re both fucked. The throw is shit too. The only positive is the outdoor seating area next to the river.

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   Where I drink: pretty decent. Barely any trouble with drugs any more since the regulars and the new licence holder don’t want to tolerate it, plenty of space, 6 dartboards, a 50p pool table, a jukebox with a massive selection, friendly staff, and most importantly has reasonably priced drinks.

7. Live half way up a hill in an ANOB so tourism slightly probs up bad pubs

   Closest – Bit souless, wine is red or white, limited view, by a busyish road, for locals. Rarely go

   2nd closest – top of the hill, ok beer, decent view, landlady seems to hate customers and really hate tourists. Only go if forced to

   3rd closest – top of the hill, excellent view, good beer, slightly off the tourist trail. Would cry if it closed.

8. Closed. It was converted into a house a year or two ago.

9. Mine’s really nice actually.

   Bit on the posher-side of Public Houses – nice place to go for decent grub, live music, beer garden, etc.

10. It’s now a coop

11. I live in a teeny South Norfolk village and the local pub is amazing. Very traditional decor (wood beams, real fire) but still doesn’t feel old or stuffy! The owner is a pillar of the community, the food is amazing and the quiz nights are great fun!

    The clientele range from old locals, young locals and people of all ages from other villages. Good ales too.

12. Community run and something out of hot fuzz. It’s a strange place

13. It’s a cosy pub with a mix of old/new and indoor/outdoor seating, drinks are reasonably priced but of course everything is a lot more expensive ‘than it used to be’, a pint is £6 or so and the food is good pub food. Only problem is that it’s always closed at weekends because they have so many weddings on – it’s a very popular venue.

14. My local is dreadful. Massive listed building right by a nice estate and local park. It could be a money spinner but it’s all sky sports and Stella.

15. Nearest, not tolerant of me having different DNA to the rest of them.
    Where I drink, 18 pool tables, 6 snooker tables and a storming jukebox

16. Fucking superb, my mum and dad run it and they’re just absolutely beautiful human beings, created this little community, I don’t really drink so I don’t go often but the way they treat the regulars is just so adorable sometimes, pulling pints at certain times ready for them, inviting the single oldies for Christmas dinner when the pub doesn’t even serve food, my dad checks on one of them whos not quite right and takes a pint to his doorstep to have with his Sunday lunch when he won’t leave the house.

    They have this bloke who comes in once a fortnight on a mobility scooter full oxygen mask and they set him out this little area so he’s still included, started doing it after the 3rd time he showed up and it’s been part of the clean on that particular day ever since

    And they’re also often still found at 4am drinking with the beak heads! Possibly don’t mind a tibble! But certainly out for a good time. Bless ‘em.
    I’m gonna go right now, Thank you.

17. I’ve got a few locals, they’re mostly lovely, good beer (some brewed in-house), some with brilliant food, events, lovely staff and a decent crowd (not rough but not posey/stuck-up either)

    https://www.facebook.com/thecastlemacc/

    https://www.facebook.com/TheSnowGooseCafeBar/

    https://www.facebook.com/parktavernmacclesfield/

    https://rgbeervault.co.uk/

    The pubs and bars are one of the best things about living here.

    Technically speaking the closest licenced premises to my house is a bowling and social club which is… fine… very friendly, strong family/community vibe, not the most stylish venue or the best choice of drinks, so we usually skip it, though it’s a nice spot to sit outside in the summer.

18. I have no idea, I have never been in it ! I must make a point to go inside one day.

19. Recently refurbished to look like a chain pub, even though it isn’t. Quite cheap. Collegiate sounding name that doesn’t match the clientele. Sky Sports on all TVs. Bail hostel over the road.

    Not for me.

20. Most local is a shite run down working mens club, that only serves the most boring lagers.

    My local which is a few buildings down from that. Proper pub, horsehose shaped bar which lots of people sit at. Lots of different lagers and beers that change regularly and dog friendly

21. My closest pub is about 45 min walk away and at least twice that back, so I don’t really have a local anymore.

22. I’m torn between a rough as fuck Greene King and a very uppity brunning and price.

    The duality of local boozers is really something.

23. No music, no machines, no TV. Just conversation and bloody good ale. Has anything up to 20 different Real Ales on at any one time, changing most of the range all the time. Just a bit too slow to embrace the good quality craft ales that are available these days (though we’re working on the guv’nor).

    It’s a pub you go to because you love trying different ales and you meet so many like-minded people that you can’t help but feel at home. It also helps that the staff are all superb – more like friends than people serving you – in the 26 years I’ve been drinking there, there hasn’t been more than a handful of staff I didn’t like (and fortunately, none of those lasted). It’s the sort of place where staff stay for a long time, rather than coming and going.

24. I’m within a 2 min walk from 4 different pubs. Pub one is run by a family, you’re often served by teenagers who have no idea but the prices are cheap and they have food trucks 3 days a week. Pub two is split into two halves, one half they hold lots of events and tends to get rowdy, the other half is cosy and warm fireplaces, mainly full of regulars. Pub 3 is a local locals, you’d walk in and immediately leave as you’re eyed up by the locals who have been in since 10am. Pub 4 is your seniors and family pub serving crap but hearty food.

25. Shite

26. A traditional pub with 4 rooms plus the taproom. No background music. The Irish music lot meet in the big room every Friday and every other Sunday. The ukulele club meets every other Thursday, I think. Plenty of other groups meeting and an open mic night. It’s lovely. One regular had his 90th birthday and everyone joined in to pay him 90 pints on. At his funeral he left money behind the bar for everyone to have a drink on him 🥰

27. My local is the most haunted pub in Britain, if you believe that shite. It’s had a succession of landlords recently, if its not not empty, its full of coke ridden chavs. I go 5 mins down the road now to a couple of pubs which I always thought were rough, but they’re alright!

28. Just found out it closed 3 days ago, so that’s cool.

29. Its a club in fairness though we’re open to non-members. Its small (A single room), it has a good beer selection that rotates constantly (1400+ since opening in ’99), everyone knows one-another, its cheap and in winter the fires lit. Lockins are not infrequent too which is an added bonus! We sometimes wish we could open earlier but all the staff, myself included when I had a regular night, have other jobs so its limited to an evening thing.

    Ultimately it only exists due to the other pub in the village falling out with sufficient numbers of folk to make it worth it, so they converted the storeroom of the local independant Co-Op and we’ve been running ever since.

30. Shut.

    The owner assaulted a local politician and the politician’s wife, it shut for a few months, then pandemic and it never re-opened.

    It recently appeared to fail to sell at auction.