Willenhall:
Another un-plush pub, but comfortable enough, and again, no ale, but Stella on draught. Jamaican food (including takeaway), and a friendly enough place, clean and tidy, and again right by a 529 stop 🙂
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The Broadway
Short Heath/Wednesfield:
Another by-the-numbers food pub, this time a Fayre & Square. Pretty quiet when we arrived at getting on for 10pm, it’s after the family feedbag market, and is very typically a feedbag pub, with owner Greene King’s beer in evidence. A bit soulless again, but not actually unpleasant, and convenient for my bus and Andy’s walk home.
The Pool Hayes
Short Heath:
Outside, a standard 1960s estate pub- apparently a fast-disappearing type of building. Inside, it’s a feedbag, but the other sort of feedbag: the pub with Indian food. The food smelt fantastic, to be fair. A little bit of the tall-seat-and-table standard pub furniture, but a friendly owner, decent beer, and the TV muted won it back some points. Not the atmosphere of The Whimsey, but a nice pub.
The Whimsey
Short Heath:
Another refurbed Short Heath pub, and a nice job they’ve done too. Stripped floorboards, but no middle-class green, this was a busy local’s pub with a choice of real ale, pleasant staff, and tidy, but not up-itself decor. Music was on, but you could talk, and the TV muted. Another fine pub.
The Prince of Wales
Willenhall:
Odd pub this. It looked closed at first, with one entrance locked and the other shut but unlocked, and the light inside was the only clue. Once inside, the landlord was very friendly, and the pub itself pleasant, but looking like it was in need of a refurb. There was ale on, but the landlaord agreed with us it was on the turn, so we settled for Pedigree from keg, which I’ve not seen before, but was OK (rather than the deep joy that a good pint of cask Pedigree provides). As Andy pointed out, this could be a great pub, with a bit of a tidy and a few more cask ales, but as it is it’s pleasant enough.