Got in at our second attempt! The problem with a micropub in a busy town and covid is getting in.
Great staff, great beer, great atmosphere. Simple, well-run track and trace. Sensible policy, adhered to by customers and owners. Only problem is sheer popularity!
That didn’t concern us; we were just after a quiet drink in a crowded town, and this place delivered. “Foul or abusive language” is banned on site, but they let me in anyway. Cheap beer, great staff, nice atmosphere, with only one well-oiled customer spoiling it a little with lack of distancing and queuing for the bogs, at which I broke the language rule :-).
We dropped in here on our way back to our holiday let. On the face it seemed to have sensible covid precautions: track & trace, sanitizer, distancing, table service but then when we sat down, the slightly-too-close fruit machine became an issue with the bloke playing it shouting over us and bringing his mates over. We moved table, and then observed other customers entering without track & trace, standing at the bar, shouting, while the staff did nothing.
We really didn’t take to this last time, but we found it much, much better on this trip. We think a somewhat unwelcoming barman soured it last time.
Anyway, this was the nearest pub to our holiday flat for the week, so we parked the car and dropped in. Friendly, decent beer, excellent covid precautions, nice atmosphere, and, later in the week, excellent food. Goes to show that impressions can change drastically.
Pub on the site of an old bakery in the middle of town; it looks old, but it was built around 1980 with a lot of reclaimed material.
Sister pub to The Erskine Arms and the same things are evident: slightly posh pub food (which was again excellent), extensive real ale choice, friendly staff. Again, there was a noticeable food bias, but you could just come for a drink- several people were.
Cheap pub food and beer, and an opened-out interior of what seems to be quite an old pub. Friendly staff, Ok beer (limited choice, but in good order), locals who tolerated us sitting in “their” seats until we left!
Quiet pub in a quiet street. Pleasant enough, decent beer, staff, and locals, but too many sofas (too low for me these days!). Seemed to be something of a local’s pub. 3 ales on offer.
A ‘spoons. A spoons in a very grand building, and on a grand scale, but still a ‘spoons, so you know what you’ll get: the standard food menu (albeit with some nice-looking Welsh additions), cheap, decentish wine and beer.
As it happened, the beer was great, the food as per usual, and the staff pleasant. You could do worse.