The Parish Pub

Within walking distance of the glorious Wembley stadium sits this timid looking Irish pub. There are frequent signs about the toilets for customer use and just inside the door is a small number of the tables with a compact bar to the right. The bar is serviced by a stern looking middle aged [...]

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Ronnie and Roxy’s Club

Why is it the British dream to settle down with a loved one, buy a pub and live happily ever after? It seems that this cliche comes out in full force when the locales of Albert square setup a basement club just off the square. The place is popular with one or [...]

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O Neills Bar

Along the busy streets of Watford at the dead of night on a Saturday, drinkers shuffle in single file like a flowing brook towards destinations within arms reach of the bar they have just left. O Neill’s is right in the thick of the action and is a relatively large venue. The bouncers outside [...]

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Sweeney’s Bar

A bit of a rough old pub. We just so happen to enter this venue in the middle of a football match and it seems all eyes are fixed on the many screens around the room. In fact I am not sure I have seen a room so crowded in the middle of the [...]

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The White Lion of Mortimer

For a pub with no atmosphere the white swan is surprisingly busy.each table is occupied with some pretty tired looking  working class people looking like they are on their last legs. The service in this relatively small wetherspoons is friendly but the bar staff are incredibly slow joking amongst themselves as time [...]

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Bolgna Cafe Pizzeria Bar

Sitting and relaxing on the streets of Novi Sad is a popular past time. Iced Coffee’s, ice cream and full blown lasagne are all Serbian favourites I find, perched in wicker chairs under umbrellas, out of the baking sun in the middle of the busy season. We sit outside Bolgna Cafe Pizzeria, [...]

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9Rouge Restaurant and Bar

At the bottom of one of the more popular strips of bars and restaurants in Novi Sad sits a quiet venue called Rouge. There is comfortable seating out the front with dark brown wicker chairs filled with a mafia looking collective of gentlemen and a well-to-do young couple baking in the sun [...]

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Cafe Rouge Bar and Restaurant

Lakeside is an enormous shopping centre so who can blame me for wanted to stop for a beer and a nibble in the “food court” which appeared to be tiny in comparison with the rest of the centre and with options few and far between we select Cafe Rouge. Essentially a chain [...]

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The Windmill

HEavy are the crowds in Standstead Airport, and like a light, bright in the darkness is the neon glow of a wetherspoons. Swimming depper into the ebbings flux or people, a half rooved pub emerges inside the sheer stadium like size of the terminal. The place is a mess, people arriving in bursts and quietening [...]

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The Three Horseshoes

During Otley run season the three horse shoes is no where to be seen. Quite realistically it disappears behind a wall of folk in fancy dress - some with teenage looking faces but most with costume of such ridicule that finding yourself standing in a queue on the street to get into this [...]

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