The Riverhead Brewery Tap & Dining Room, Marsden
I managed a day out of the office recently, for lunch with a former boss whom I hadn’t seen for 25 years. I went with my business partner. The choice of venue was left to us and as we had seen a good...
View ArticleBank Top Brewery Tap
Bank Top Brewery was established in 1995 by John Feeney, the original brewery being situated in an old industrial unit off Back Lane close to Bolton town centre. The Brewery name came from a long held...
View ArticleSouth Wales – Gwynt Y Ddraig Cider & Otley Brewing Co.
Last Friday I managed to get away from the office for a few days; to South Wales and Devon to be exact. The reason for my travels was to again meet our friends at the multi award winning Gwynt Y Ddraig...
View ArticleDevon – Surf & Turf and Double Locks
Whilst in Devon I had a few hours to spare Sunday afternoon and decided to visit a pub I had been meaning to many times on our frequent family visits to Sidmouth but had just never got around to....
View ArticleThe Sun Inn, Leintwardine – Of another England.
After leaving Pontypridd and Otley Brewery, late afternoon, we took the scenic route home via The Heads of The Valley Road, Hereford and the A49. Traveling along the latter, some hours later, in north...
View ArticleThe Telegraph, Weekend – and an ambrosial pale ale from All Gates
Another mention for All Gates; this one in The Telegraph; Weekend section of 13th August 2011 in a review of The Buffet Bar, Stalybridge Station, by Chris Arnot who, “settles on an ambrosial pale ale...
View ArticleThe Taps, Lytham St Anne’s
I see that during my recent absence on holiday in Eire, my local, The Taps in Lytham St Anne’s featured in The Telegraph, The Famous Grouse, Famous Pubs 2011 series. Good to see yet more accolades...
View ArticleJohn Hesketh R.I.P.
I was saddened to hear this week of the death of John Hesketh who passed away the weekend before last. John was a partner in the Stalybridge Station Buffet Bar and who since 1997 had together with...
View ArticleWigan’s MP’s support their local pubs.
On Friday 4th November Wigan and Makerfield’s Labour MP’s Lisa Nandy and Yvonne Fovargue dropped in on All Gates’s, The Anvil, Dorning Street, Wigan to offer their support to landlord Ian Thorpe and...
View ArticleThe Turnip Prize – “We know its shit, but is it art?”
I first wrote about The Turnip Prize last December. I said then I don’t recall how I first heard about the prize and the pub, the New Inn, Wedmore, Somerset, where it’s held, but since reading about it...
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