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Next to the football stadium, so probably well known to Mikee Evans and Jane Stuart, we were at the stadium as it was the hub of a historic bus event, and dropped in for a pint, without high expectations.
Actually, it wasn’t bad. yes, it’s a standard Marstons feedbag pub, yes, there were kids about, but it’s a big site with lots of space in and out (sadly, the outside is astroturf), so it wasn’t an unpleasant place to sit for a while and ruminate on Tyson Fury’s house, almost next door.
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My usual criteria for a revisit post is if something has changed appreciably, but that’s not the case here: it’s still a Greene King pub, it still serves decent, inexpensive food, and the staff are pleasant. The cask is in decent nick, which is nice, but it’s Greene King, which is less so, but it was my first pint of cask ale since November, so I’ll take that. There was decent lager for when I grew tired of GK.
Morecambe:
On the edge of town, right next to the railway, this is, again, technically a hotel, but doesn’t serve food, just providing rooms. Outside, it’s a fair-sized stone hotel building, inside, it’s a traditional pub, quite big, and recently refurbished in a pubco kind of way. Friendly staff, good beer, and bargain-priced stay if you don’t mind having to eat out and a 5min walk to town.
Morecambe:
Some discussion over if this was a pub or not, and we decided it just scraped it: It *is* a hotel, and even the pub bit feels a bit restauranty, but there *is* a drinking area at the front, which is more can be said for some so-called pubs. It’s very, very gastropub inside- modern, stripped floors etc, but evidently a lot of money has been spent inside and out. Great beer, staff pleasant enough, but we felt a bit pounced-on by the staff all clustered around the bar when we walked in. I think they’re more expecting diners.
In Ur Pubz, Drinkin Ur Beerz