They serve you bottles of 600ml and the custom is you share between you. Anyway, we paid 15 reais a bottle which is about £2.50. In this place they only serve lager, which is not great.
I know this thread focuses on the demise of the pub, but there are still some cracking ones about. We attempted a 27 pub crawl around the Circle line yesterday for my son's stag. I ended up doing 17 of them before bailing out, the youngsters did 23 before running out of time. Didn't go in a bad pub all day.
I imagine that 10+ fellas all trying to get into the Fox and Hounds in one go would've been a challenge!
It certainly was a challenge, because it was closed by the time they got there! We headed south doing the first ten, then went back to Aldgate to do the city ones before heading in the other direction so F&H ended up being the last on the schedule.
Has the abundance of pubs documented on this thread proved that pubs are not in a state of demise?
In London and the south east we still have plenty of pubs but there is huge swaths of the country where the village pub has gone leaving community's stranded without a watering hole and a local hub. My auntie used to live in a village not far from Kettering and there's a whole bunch of villages who have lost their pubs leaving no where to go.
I imagine that 10+ fellas all trying to get into the Fox and Hounds in one go would've been a challenge!
It certainly was a challenge, because it was closed by the time they got there! We headed south doing the first ten, then went back to Aldgate to do the city ones before heading in the other direction so F&H ended up being the last on the schedule.
Market pub, so early hours. Needs to be the starting point & a good Guinness Breakfast! 😉
I have met many people over the years coming up to the valley, that do that but only have 1/2 pint in each pub. One would suspect that with the crowd of your size if you did that, the first guy would be finished before the last guy got theirs. One would also assume you went into the closest pub.
I imagine that 10+ fellas all trying to get into the Fox and Hounds in one go would've been a challenge!
It certainly was a challenge, because it was closed by the time they got there! We headed south doing the first ten, then went back to Aldgate to do the city ones before heading in the other direction so F&H ended up being the last on the schedule.
Market pub, so early hours. Needs to be the starting point & a good Guinness Breakfast! 😉
You're thinking of the F&H at Smithfield - this one's at Sloane Square.
I have met many people over the years coming up to the valley, that do that but only have 1/2 pint in each pub. One would suspect that with the crowd of your size if you did that, the first guy would be finished before the last guy got theirs. One would also assume you went into the closest pub.
We had a couple of pints at the beginning, but quickly switched to halves. The service was really good in all of the pubs, so there wasn't too much wasted time.
Did you have to go back and get the tube one stop every time?
That would be annoying having to do that from the Globe/Moorgate to the Railway Tavern/Liverpool Street for example - especially if you had to wait more than 5 mons for a tube!
I have met many people over the years coming up to the valley, that do that but only have 1/2 pint in each pub. One would suspect that with the crowd of your size if you did that, the first guy would be finished before the last guy got theirs. One would also assume you went into the closest pub.
We had a couple of pints at the beginning, but quickly switched to halves. The service was really good in all of the pubs, so there wasn't too much wasted time.
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Anyway, we paid 15 reais a bottle which is about £2.50. In this place they only serve lager, which is not great.
Drinkers - all of us at some point or another.
That would be annoying having to do that from the Globe/Moorgate to the Railway Tavern/Liverpool Street for example - especially if you had to wait more than 5 mons for a tube!
[edit - I was particularly pissed off that I couldn't walk from The Sherlock Holmes to the Red Lion quicker than some did it on the train.
Tonight's entertainment.
Paid £3 to get in but at least they have bands playing.