So much bright shiny stuff in fact, that I may well have to select one of the pubs in the area with an outside seating area to have a lunchtime drink in.
There are lots of pubs around here but there are a number of problems with some of them.
Most are just too far away for a quick lunchtime drink.
Some do that annoying thing of looking like a normal Pub but not opening until two or three. Sorry, if you don’t open your Pub at 11.00 then it is a “bar” or at worst “a venue” so stop calling it a pub.
Some of the ones that do open at 11.00 have little buckets of condiments and menus on the tables – this is not a good sign. It means you will be eventually be sitting happily reading your magazine and drinking in a space some office worker in a rush wants to eat in. Bugger off and use the canteen.
Not that eating in pubs is a bad thing, but the main point of a Pub for me is that it serves beer first, food second. I have found a nice place that does very nice looking sausage and onion sammich (and will be nomming one at some point this week) but it is a pub first, a place to eat second. Which is as it should be.
I also discounted one pub because unless there is a rock band about to play, I don’t like drinking in a place where the clients and bar staff use the “C Word” as a term of affection for each other.
I must be getting old(er)
