Great Yarmouth:
It’s called a wine bar, but it’s a pub, clearly.
Not too bad, either. No ale, but respectable lager. Only real disadvantage being the UKIP-supporting racist idiot gobshite up the corner, who upon learning we were from near Birmingham, proffered “I’ll bet it’s spot the white man”. He proved to be a veritable mine of information, most of it wrong, and had his car keys in one hand, brandy in the other. What’s not to like?
Beside that, a nice enough bar. No food, friendly staff.
Great Yarmouth:
Describes itself as a Family Pub, it was not that dreadful when we visited, but it probably could be. As it was, it was OK: we got beer (no ale) and food at a decent price, but this was the sub-spoons we expected. Nothing awful, but don’t expect atmosphere, decent beer, or haute cuisine.
Great Yarmouth:
Smack? In Great Yarmouth? Well, you’ve got to try it.
I’m assuming this is a reference to a boat- a fishing vessel- rather than drugs, but you never know.
We’d wandered in hoping for lunch, but no food seemed evident, despite the boards outside. There was a good choice of ale though, and the only real problem was the doors being wide open on a coldish day: the place was freezing, so only one (excellent, local) beer.
Great Yarmouth:
We visited this twice, once at 11:30am, and once later in the evening. It was St Patrick’s day, and the landlady was suitably attired, but the first visit felt wrong: professional drinkers were in (we drank water & coke), and we’d had a walk through some of Gt Yarmouth’s less salubrious areas.
Later that day, we found ourselves back, and went back in, and celebrations were in full swing: a nice atmosphere, cheap Guinness, and the landlady welcomed us back- there was karaoke on with a suitably oirish theme (apparently, the landlord is Irish), and we happily stayed for a few pints…