Is it correct that the Garden Gate in Leeds-Hunslet no longer serves any real ale? That seems rather tragic!
https://whatpub.com/pubs/LEE/70/garden-gate-leeds
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Is it correct that the Garden Gate in Leeds-Hunslet no longer serves any real ale? That seems rather tragic!
https://whatpub.com/pubs/LEE/70/garden-gate-leeds
Grim reading...
...and...
Ho-ho-ho!
That went well then
BrewDog boss pays almost £500k to unhappy ‘solid gold’ beer can winners
This article may be of interest as I know there are a handful of us that contribute to the Lost Pubs Project.
Have you come across this site? www.dover-kent.com
This article may be of interest to masochists.
Considering Alan Winfield could do up to 34 pubs in a day, makes you wonder what figure he could have achieved in 24 hours.
"is looking to sell up to 1000 sites to pay down its debt pile, it has been reported." https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/othe...bs/ar-AA16YKGC
Quite a few.
Curse of EI. Stonegate created this problem for themselves, they've been buying up any old crap that was going to make themselves the biggest PubCo. Looks like medium to long term economic planning of these acquisitions didn't happen and now, via COVID, here we are.
If 1,000 of them are expected to raise £800m, my guess would be the majority of them are not traditional pubs. More likely to be converted shops (Woolworths, for example) like this one in Gainsborough. So the question then becomes, in the light of the general downtown in town centre shopping, how realistic are their expectations? And why have they accumulated £2.6b in debt in the first place?
Indeed. The sale of 1,000 pubs for £800 million reduces the debt per pub from £577k to £514k, which is a negligible difference. Can you imagine running a pub and trying to pay the interest on that much money, as well as the upkeep and overheads of the building, your own salary and whatever staff you employ? Horrendous.
Anybody want a brewery? Appears to be George Wright, which I can't remember sampling and was last listed in 2019.
The pub bosses that closed their kitchens to stay afloat https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64557630
Some dodgy journalism here, It seems Jeff Bell, former landlord of here and here,now currently here., has transformed into a dead American singer /song writer. :rolleyes:
*The article has now been corrected, here's a snippet of the original. Attachment 2796
And he's closed Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and probably won't find fans with his close early if not busy policy, which makes my blood boil; there's nothing particularly novel about people bussing in their own food. I wonder if pubcos realise just how much they spend on powering their TV screens, frequently unwatched?
:D At least if wasn't Jeff Beck.
Powdered Beer.
Use this link to get past the paywall.
Marstons selling off 61 pubs. Their fall from grace continues.
List includes the famous Crooked House and near me the White Lion which is so busy you even have to book a table for Monday lunchtimes.
Just Bridge Inn This is a cracking pub, and I hope it falls into sympathetic hands. Back in 1976 or thereabouts, I visited Derwent Walk Inn , but I remember very little of it, apart from the fact that it was one of the very few Co Durham pubs selling real ale.
Climate emergency...cost of living crisis...Ukraine...and now this.
5 of those at a glance plus one in Cardigan I ran out of time to do! Mainly locals boozers by the looks of it which I suppose no longer fit into the 'fatten-up and flog-off' trajectory it feels like Marstons are on.
Crooked House felt very perfunctory when I went, here's hoping that this actually allows it flourish under different ownership.