10 Favourite Local Pubs:
The Belvedere
The Caledonia
The Dispensary
Fly In The Loaf
The Grapes (Knight St)
Peter Kavanaghs
Roscoe Head
Sanctuary (Lime St)
Ship And Mitre
The Vernon
All Liverpool City Centre.
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10 Favourite Local Pubs:
The Belvedere
The Caledonia
The Dispensary
Fly In The Loaf
The Grapes (Knight St)
Peter Kavanaghs
Roscoe Head
Sanctuary (Lime St)
Ship And Mitre
The Vernon
All Liverpool City Centre.
Masons Arms, Billinge
Turks Head, St Helens
Talbot, St Helens
Cricketers Arms, St Helens
Swan & Railway, Wigan
Wigan Central, Wigan
Eagle & Child, Billinge
Delph Tavern, Orrell
Junction, Rainford
Railway, Garswood
I miss all of them!
I've been to eight of Al's and half of Brainy's.
My ten:
Blake Hotel
Ecclesall Ale Club
Devonshire Cat
Shakespeares Ale House
Crow Inn
Kelham Island Tavern
Fat Cat
Gardeners Rest
Wellington
Sheffield Tap
...all but two are within a 20 minute walk from my house.
Lucky you!
I have some lovely pubs within about a 25-minute walk from my flat but I also have some dreadful GK central London muck too. My best/nearest are essentially all lovely places to drink but generally have a poor ale choice and/or charge prices which would scare off Mark Zuckerberg:
The Cock & Bottle
Elephant & Castle
The Elgin
The Hero of Maida
The Ladbroke Arms
The Prince Alfred
Uxbridge Arms
The Warrington Hotel
Warwick Castle
Windsor Castle
Ah to live in a city,now since I've moved a village three miles further south west, I no longer have any favourite pubs in sensible walking distance, pubs yes, but I'd rather not bother.The only upside is now I have a train station two minutes walk from my doorstep as opposed to previously 25 minutes at brisk pace. The two pubs I consider my locals are,
The Waggon & Horses 3.5 miles away
And
The Alfred Free House 8 miles away.
Both are small trad pubs and are going to struggle to open under any distancing rules.
non local drinker
Unfortunately my favourite local pub was scheduled to close for renovation and new management in June so that's gone for good unless the changes aren't too bad. I will see if and when it reopens.
My nearest decent pubs otherwise are in York or Harrogate, not exactly walking distance for me.
Just visiting fairly often, mode of transport is neither here nor there.
Well, that explains why you chose just two pubs, Mick. After all, none of us are going to be visiting 10 pubs three or four times a week!
My 10 accounted for 214 out of my 847 pub visits last year, and were my most frequently visited pubs in my home town (though I listed them without reference to my spreadsheet). This year the same 10 have accounted for 63 out of 233 pub visits up to 20 March, though if I'd based my 10 on this year's figures I would have to have included the Old Grindstone at the expense of the Ecclesall Ale Club.
Dubliners, Thornaby
Golden Smog, Stockton
Hope and Union, Stockton
Top of the Hops, Stockton
The words "local" and "regular" mean different things to each person depending on your environment. I have 4 pubs in 5 mins walk then next pubs are 30 to 40 mins walk. I class local favourites as 15 minute walk, bus or train ride (or drive if someone else is driving!) + odd exceptions.
First pub - 3 minute walk from home
Last pub - 3 minute walk from Carrog station at the end of "regular" steam train ride!
The Bridge End Inn
The Vaults
Black Lion
Duke Of Wellington
The Ponsonby Arms
The Sun Inn
The Corn Mill
Chainbridge Hotel
Aqueduct Inn
The Grouse
My favourite pub within walking distance of home is The Old Cross Tavern,sadly it is small and would struggle to fit more than 15 punters with 2m distancing.
The Black Horse has however a generous back garden ,not at all obvious to non locals so an ideal spot for a bit of social distancing from early July
Out boating ,there maybe a lot of scope for exterior drinking and I do have a supply of leather tankards if take outs are the only option.Lets hope this good weather extends well into July.Canals are due to reopen to more than short hops from June 1st .
We live midway between two villages with three pubs between them,say a minimum forty minute walk.I can't say that we've used any of them this past twelvemonth. We seem to have to travel further afield for an engaging pub,and if push came to shove, I would say that Larkins' Alehouse would be my "local", given that I often drop in on a Saturday lunchtime, when it is quiet. A good range of fairly local beers, and I am recognised.
I think it is doing "take outs" on some evenings of the week, but I'm not sure.
The Rusty Axe is the nearest pub to my house, but I prefer to drink here: The Wyndham Arms
Better beer, warmer welcome.
30 minutes on foot from Chez Quinno and gets regularly visited
The Alehouse
The Allied Arms
Double-Barrelled Brewery Tap
The Fox & Hounds
Nags Head (which probably gets more visits in a month than the rest combined, mind you it is three minutes from my front door)
The Retreat
The only pub I consider to be my 'local' in the sense that Moby describes, is Claret & Ale, which I visit fairly regularly, often for a final pint after a day of pub crawling elsewhere.
But there are a few other pubs in my local area which I'm always happy enough to frequent, including:
The Green Dragon
The George (JD Wetherspoon)
The Oval Tavern
The Cronx
The Royal Standard
The Skylark (JD Wetherspoon)
The Spread Eagle
Shelverdine Goathouse
The Craft Beer Cabin