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The Salamander
A seemingly small wooden pub in the picture-esque town centre of Bath sits on a side road in what must be one of the quietest settings in the bustling village-style city. The pub displays its black woods and orange corridors with will stocked local ales and ciders, and traditional drawings mounted in frames on the walls. When we walk down this pub you here the echo of the floorboards and thudding feet among the small wooden tables and breath of the traditional and ever authentic pub atmosphere. The Salamander is populated with locals not tourists yet several drinkers are packaged like gift packs, sat eagerly waiting to be pounced on those that travel. The music is light seventies rock but it varies while maintaining the soft undertone of an old drum. Upstairs there is a waitress service and when you finally get over the age of the feel of the place you pipe up £2.60 for a local ale.
overall a pub that is either standing in this manner for tourists or is indeed authentic, old and traditional in every mannerism, if only people 200 years ago had invented more comfortable seating.. 6/10
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1 Mike (Pint of Ale) // Aug 27, 2007 at 8:15 pm
I loved Salamander. The ale was top notch and locally brewed. It’s good to see a modern pub shun the anodyne “modern trendy bar” look. We spent a lot of our Bath visit in Salamander. I’d go for an 8/10 rather than your 6.
2 Clive // Apr 21, 2008 at 3:16 pm
I’ve always liked the Salamander, but it gets very busy at times. Try it’s sister pub The Hop Pole on the Upper Bristol Road. A bit further out of town but the same beer, same atmosphere and usually quieter.
You might also be interested to know that the http://www.throngalong.com website was developed to solve the age-old problem of deciding where to go out for a drink in the evening, how to invite everyone and how to know who is coming and who isn’t.
Basically you set up a shortlist of favourite pubs (or clubs, restaurants etc), add a list of friend’s email address and choose a date and time. Invitations are sent out with a link so everyone can RSVP easily and see who else is going. The neatest thing is that the venue is selected at random, at the time the invitations are sent out, from the list given. The date can be recurring so you can have it go off automatically every week, choosing a different pub each time.
The RSVP page is great as everyone can leave messages for each other to arrange where to meet, explain why they’ll be late, or worse of all, why they’re not coming!
3 Anne Lamacraft // Jan 27, 2011 at 9:41 am
Salanander is a great little pub for a beer and some food when Saturday shopping. Owned by Bath Ales, all 7 of their pubs in Bath and Bristol are fantastic real ale pubs that do good food too. Try them all.
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