Inverness:
Traditional Scottish pub with a historic interior including an unusual terrazzo spitoon around the bar counter. Great beer, great staff, great atmosphere, a fantastic pub.
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Revisit 2: The Fountain
Look, I’m probably going to upset people, including myself, here.
I don’t like The Fountain. Often don’t like The Fountain.
There’s so much to love. It’s traditional, it’s Victorian, and it’s a free house now, even if the excellent beers from my favourite brewery still form the base of the range. The beer is excellent, and there’s cobs. The music is OK and usually at a sane volume. The staff are all lovely, and there’s sometimes a pubcat.
So what’s wrong?
The customers.
Every time I visit, unless it’s a very quiet time, there’s one or more group of obnoxious customers. The middle-class closet rascist bar-blocking group, standing in the way all the time. The hipster types talking bollocks about the Spanish revolution, the hipster parents turning the place into a creche-cum-playground.
It ruins it. I think maybe there’s a bit of “victim of it’s own success” here.
The Kingfisher
Colyton:
Proper, traditional village pub. We sat outside in the pleasant beer garden- food, beer both great, staff pleasant. Not the cheapest, but by no means a rip off, it was nice to see a proper free house instead of a pubco identikit pub painted in Farrow & Ball middle-class green. A lovely place for Saturday lunch.