Bristol:

Had great hopes for this: it’s very old, and listed. It has a rumour attached to it about the front door (TLDR: Human skin under the paint), and the description

Old 1606 Tudor-style pub featuring rock and heavy metal nights in upstairs bar, plus beer garden.

sounded good.

It was actually pretty horrible. Outside looked OK, and the famous door was present. The inside had been given a modern-pub stripped floorborads and green paint makeover, music varied from good to woeful, there was no ale, and the whole place was full of posing arseholes. Maybe we picked it on a bad night…