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Been to them all and multiple times.
Anchor is stable local given it's about 350m from my house and where most football gets watched and been drinking in there since 1995.
Hobgoblin is a little further down the road and I tend to meet a set of mates in there if they are out, again since 1995.
Alma Tavern was my local in 2nd year of uni in 1996 and became the theatre just before I moved to new digs in Summer 1997.
Kings Arms when it was Bohemia was managed by my old housemate when he quit uni so went in there a lot not forgetting hanging from the spiral staircase when we beat Germany 5-1.
What do I win?
I'm reasonably well travelled in Surrey, but only managed 12 of these, I'm not sure the author understands what a proper pub is( Toby Carvery!!!!) or that beer is a main ingredient of a pub.
Just one for me, The Anchor, more Thai restaurant than pub, quick in & out for my visit so not reviewed, I note OB gave it huge score of one in 2011. Maybe it has changed since our visits? Hope so
Read the headline.
See who sponsors it.
Don't say you weren't warned.
http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/P...s-the-top-spot
List here
Not sure the name of the third placed pub is entirely appropriate...on the other hand it may be :D
(I've actually been in three of them :o )
I've been to two-both pre gastro, and in the case of the Compasses, pre-Sheps.
http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/15641/ and http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/15465/
4 all local to me and for no other reason than they needed to be done.
Just The Alma ,it wasn't gastro back then.
I'm sure there's been a similar list to this before! I've definitely been to five and possibly the Highgate one all when the talk of a gastro-pub would get the response "Wot Dat?".
The Beehive at White Waltham was an ordinary village pub that made for a good GBG listed stop on the way back from a Brakspear foray.
The Anchor & Hope in SE1 I believe was the first Well's pub in London. I've played darts in there and eaten the gastro sarnies (NOT!).
The Flitch of Bacon in Little Dunmow was a very plain Bass Charrington village pub.
The Alma in Wandsworth was arguably the roughest Young's pub in Wandsworth before the brewery started ruining them and then selling out.
The Marksman in East London was a rough old East End pub that went onto the Real Ale bandwagon and got a GBG listing.
I'm not sure I've ever been to a gastro-pub.
9 out of 50 and surprisingly, 3 out of the Top 10. I'm obviously a bigger and posher sod than I thought. :eek:
I remember going into The Coach before Kerridge got his mitts on it when it was the Coach & Horses - a run-down town boozer-cum-Chinese. Not sure which incarnation I preferred better...
I did go into The Anchor and Hope last year,about 20 minutes before advertised closing but the chair's were already upside down on the table's and they wouldn't serve me. Their loss not mine.
I'm putting my hands up to just two on this list, Newbury and Guildford.
Railway stations this time, some glaring omissions perhaps... 3 for me
http://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/tr...n-bars-9804052
Four for me Sheffield (a couple of days ago), Liverpool Street, Stalybridge and Codsall. The comment under Codsall about noise from trains is rubbish, there may only be stopping trains every hour in each direction but there are also hourly ATW trains in and out of Wales, a couple of Virgin services each way between London and Shrewsbury plus a few freights which are the noisiest of the lot. Codsall is easily my favourite.
Only been in one, The Great Central (JD Wetherspoon) in Fallowfield,
but I wouldn't have chosen the same barmaid as Peter
"I had the rare luxury of a choice of barmaids to serve me. Opted for the Witchfinder General" :eek:
Sadly such classics as the Bridge bar at New St and the No 9 bar at London Victoria are no longer with us.
Only 3 for me too, sadly Stalybridge remains unvisited. Probably stalled since oz and toz ruined the Pennine rail experience.
Was that the best photo angle they could manage for Sheffield Tap? Shameful.
just 2
Two for me as well but both excellent. Sheffield and Stalybridge.
Three for me: Sheffield, York and Stalybridge. A new venture at Doncaster station, due to open in spring, sounds promising:
http://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/...tion-1-8317103
http://londonist.com/london/pubs/lon...ampaign=buffer
I'm sure we've seen something like this before. Anyway all the usual suspects are there plus a few I've not seen before. 8/23 for me.
10 for me, but I'm pretty sure I've been in The Guinea as well, but can't really remember it. :o