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I'd like to know how many of these pubs actually use freshly carved meat as opposed to microwaved slices. My local boozer the Bell certainly uses reheated food but how many pubs don't? People slag...

Their facebook page and What Pub say otherwise. According to What Pub it is a Castle (M & B) outlet. Depending on whether it's managed the staff may not have any authorisation for doing this. It...

Unless it's a managed house I don't think you can do much here. I wonder if micropubs actually do get different licences to other places or whether the 10:00 closing is more an intention of how they...

I'm not at all surprised to hear this. The pub trade has had its share of crooks for as long as I've been drinking. This is another wheeze to add to short measures, short changing, overcharging,...

I can assure you this would NEVER have happened in a JDW. It looks like it's another hazard of card payments.

I agree with him! These sort of dos are just like Xmas parties.

You're dead right there, all pub chains and breweries are at it. I remember the days when you didn't see swan necks and sparklers in the South. The fact that most Central London pubs are already a...

One of my local pubs the Bell does it and there's no way it's a gastro. The food is generally better than JDW but costs roughly twice as much. Thinking about it, £6.99 is just as annoying as a bare 7.

They still do unless it's managed by someone with the sense to ignore the ridiculous directive, maybe one that listens to their staff and punters rather than the cretins in charge.

Again, I don't know if it has been raised before but I find it extremely irritating after ordering a beer being given the reply "of course you can". I first noticed this in JDWs but have since come...

Some of them only have high furniture and many have mostly high tables and chairs. One obvious reason is because it gives them somewhere to stash the empty casks. I was told in one of these places it...

Yes, my comment was a generalisation but too many of them do have just tall tables and chairs. I try not to bother with Ember Inns as I've found the few I've been to disappointing. I went to a local...

Micropubs are probably the worst offenders.

I picked up a load without noticing at the Bay Hop micropub in Colwyn Bat last Friday. I didn't notice as too much time was spent discussing the mental stability of the owner of the Rat Race micropub...

Phew! It wasn't a JDW but it just goes to show that the policing of pubs by that allow families is not a problem exclusive to JDW.

Students in pubs. There was a large table of them at a JDW in Exeter yesterday. The problem is that unlike the feral, uncouth and boorish rabble of my student days these ones were polite, sober, not...

To be honest I find the abuse of punctuation like that totally disgraceful!!
It makes my blood boil!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I would add dart boards that are so old and worn that the darts just keep bouncing out of them. I wasn't that keen on the wooden ones that needed soaking before use, or the mickey mouse regional...

I don't often eat out as it's generally a rip off, but there are proper mushy peas made in the pub and a bowl containing microwaved tinned cheapo mushy peas from the supermarket to go with a pathetic...

Blimey!! Rants about "excess gravy" and "crushed potatoes".

At least it's a change from "boring brown beer" vs "hop soup", or whether a mild is genuine or not!!

Like buttery, peppery and lumpy mash perhaps?

Crushed potatoes is another idiotic cheffy thing, it's simply lumpy mashed potatoes.

I love this list!! I've added "Nicotine Bouncers" to my vocabulary to go with the "Woodbine Guard Of Honour".

This used to be a very common practise, I've seen lager slops go into a white bucket and beer slops into a red one in managed Mac's houses just under twenty years ago. Around about the same time...

Have you been following me around??