Pub visits this week 9 Locations Sheffield, York, Grimsby, Bakewell Real ale is becoming moderately popular among young people! And who’d have known if the Guardian hadn’t told us? But let’s just make sure this article has all the required components. References to real ale being characterised as “an old man’s drink”? Check. Semi-reassuring statistics … Continue reading
Pub visits this week 7 Locations Sheffield, Chesterfield, Derby, Grimsby There’s more news on two new pubs (or in one case, a sort of revamped and renamed pub) that we’ve been eagerly anticipating at Get to the pub.com recently. Specifically, the opening dates have been announced for both of them. The Greystones in Sheffield, which … Continue reading
Pub visits this week 6 Locations Sheffield, Grimsby Last week the Independent did another of those “hey, that real ale stuff, you thought it’s just for old men and tastes of socks, right, but some of the pale ones are almost drinkable” features that reliably do the rounds once or twice a year. Are these … Continue reading
Pub visits this week 7 Locations Sheffield, Cleethorpes, Grimsby First South Yorkshire, our primary local bus operator here in Sheffield, has been widely criticised of late. Fares are getting on for double what they were six or seven years back. In the charisma stakes, drivers tend to come in somewhere between Bernard Manning and Donald … Continue reading