tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3076725205410370436.post4569306439585453866..comments2024-01-29T10:16:00.995+00:00Comments on CALLED TO THE BAR : Pub timeAdrian Tierney-Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05421802854011395300noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3076725205410370436.post-49422912915046031102009-10-24T19:25:11.645+01:002009-10-24T19:25:11.645+01:00Good post, it’s depressing isn’t it? It’s not rock...Good post, it’s depressing isn’t it? It’s not rocket science to get things right in pub food, but quite a few landlords (and ladies) get it wrong — when we are out and about and want to eat my wife tends to go for the Good Pub Guide and if I am driving (as I normally am) it doesn’t really matter apart from a few considerations (reserved signs on tables, and the menu description that includes pan-fried, does anyone ever say pot-boiled broccoli?). She got a rude awakening when we were first going out (how innocent that all sounds) and I took her for lunch to a GBG pub in Dorset — Christ it was grim and the food was inedible but the beer was lovely…I was driving though…Adrian Tierney-Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05421802854011395300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3076725205410370436.post-77103971954218106572009-10-24T19:08:27.441+01:002009-10-24T19:08:27.441+01:00Worth mentioning this post about pubs that complet...Worth mentioning <a href="http://pubcurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2009/05/lost-in-translation.html" rel="nofollow">this post</a> about pubs that completely fail to get the idea of dishes they are serving. A cheeseburger with a heap of grated cheese is on a par with a ploughman's, really.Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3076725205410370436.post-56008894662012042172009-10-24T18:53:33.153+01:002009-10-24T18:53:33.153+01:00Cheers Curmudgeon — it’s nice to be appreciated.
...Cheers Curmudgeon — it’s nice to be appreciated. <br />The idea of a Ploughmans with grated cheese reminds me of a hotel/pub in Carlisle I stayed in many years ago. I was doing something for the then BBC Travel magazine (the Des Lynam page of walks, I was Des and doing Hadrian’s wall). The local tourist board had booked me into this market place hotel which thought that I was also doing a report on them — just as well really, when they offered me a cheese sauce with the salad…Adrian Tierney-Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05421802854011395300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3076725205410370436.post-13894276956693914772009-10-24T16:41:14.812+01:002009-10-24T16:41:14.812+01:00My only visit to the Hunters Inn was more than twe...My only visit to the Hunters Inn was more than twenty years ago when I had a ploughman's which bizarrely was presented with grated cheese!<br /><br />I'm sure it's better now.<br /><br />I have to say I like your pub reviews in the <i>Telegraph</i> as they put across what places are like as pubs rather than (as some others do) concentrating on the food and leaving everything else to an afterthought.Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.com