Largs:

Busy pub with standard pubfood menu on the A78 seafront. This was another packed pub; the good weather had brought Glasgow out for a seaside drink and meal, and this wasn’t a bad place for that.

Still a limited choice of cask ale, but at least there was something drinkable. Food looked OK, staff friendly.

Largs:

Our first pub in Largs, our first drink being in a hotel bar, so not counting.

Had quite high hopes for this; it’s just away from the seafront, and was listed in our Good Beer Guide (even if our GBG is a little out-of-date). As it was, it didn’t impress; not awful by any means, but walking in, the only cask ale was Doom Bar (shudder), and the place was packed with people watching the kicksphere: it was dark and noisy. Half of Glasgow was in Largs, and many of them were in here.

A subsequent visit made it a bit better- still no drinkable cask, but Shipyard keg, and we found the beer garden. Staff were OK, and it was one of very few pubs with an actual beer garden in town, but it wasn’t what we hoped for.