On leaving the bar, I felt a strong blow to the back of my head. Turning round, I discovered it was the pavement
All this talk of Popworld has made me realise that their Bristol venue is not listed. Although I haven’t been there in it’s current iteration, I did when it was known as Reflex and was presumably much the same with a focus on 80’s music.
From looking at their website though, it seems they don’t open until 9:00pm, so I don’t think it really warrants a listing on a pub website.
Mixed feelings. True they are late night venues, but there are quite a few such on the site. Owned by Stonegate of course, the biggest pub operator in the country, their prime raison d'être is to serve drink (including keg beer), they do not generally charge admission and I can't actually find anywhere they refer to themselves as "clubs". While I would not be sorry to see them go, that opens the old can of worms of how to decide what is and isn't a pub.
On leaving the bar, I felt a strong blow to the back of my head. Turning round, I discovered it was the pavement
I thought our 'rule of thumb' was similar to that used by Camra, i.e. words to the effect of this?
A pub must:
a) be open to and welcome the general public without requiring membership or residency and without charging for admission;
b) serve at least one draught beer or cider; and
c) allow drinking without requiring food to be consumed.