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BF at The Rochester Castle (JD Wetherspoon) -

The cheap drink and food options do attract a strange mix of older customers and a large table of over 70 men did emit an unfortunate reek,a seating...

Minus a couple of malevolent twins, the second photo looks like a scene from The Shining.

Telling it like it is: trust Alan to not fall for the Emperor's New Clothes.

So did I. ;) I guessed there'd be a word for it.

The bible according to The Dark Side.

A not up the usual standards Wetherspoons pub!!! Food ok, beer cheap, locals scary. There were two fights outside when I was there and this was a Friday afternoon. Oh, and another guy there had a...

'...the simpleton son...' - who refers to their son using such a term?

I wonder if he would have preferred a mainstream lager to Sharp's new Solar Wave. I bit the bullet and went for a half and it tasted faintly like sucking a Fisherman's Friend.

If you mess up, you'll end up with gordon burns (groan).

But potential for a 3.5.

'I didn't investigate so as to avoid being mistaken for a striptease artist'. - The perils BF encounters as a pub reviewer. :)

...and the description of the venue's colour; could it be more black? And the answer is none. None more black.

I may have to pay a revisit, so watch this space.



Yes. This is a great tactic which also works following the hard nut; it's called 'slipstreaming'.

I can't imaging anyone else making any effort to review the place as it hardly stands out, or if it does, it does so for the wrong reasons.

It's amazing what drivel some pubs will inflict on their punters; sometimes I think it's just for staff entertainment. Still, I'd prefer the Fat Yanks show to the rubbish I experienced at The Prince...

Reminds me of a joke doing the rounds at the time:

'How do we know that the Archbishop of Canterbury is on a diet?'

'He's lost Waite'.

'Shotguns were even being ‘rented out’...', no doubt 'pump-action'?

No wonder it's been shut down.

The Royal Standard - a lovely description for the interpretation of 'hand pump'.

Succinct and witty, with reasons aplenty as to why to avoid The Rose & Crown.

Best let sleeping babies lie. Better that than the screaming one I encountered at The Goose.

Seems like they're resurrecting a dead horse.

:D

I thought the Scruffy Murphy's chain had gone to the wall many moons ago. I remember drinking in Alice House when it was a branch back in the '90s.

You certainly know your onions!;)

I had to look this one up, but an allium is '...a bulbous plant of a genus that includes the onion and its relatives (e.g. garlic, leek, and chives)'. I think he meant 'alium'. Thank goodness 'Spem'...

But more so than the mould-breaking Real Ale Tavern? ;)