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The Cavern Bar

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West End, Morecambe:

We’d made our way by bus to the West End for a curry, and we were a bit early.

Morecambe’s West End is the total opposite of Bare village: it might be described as “vibrant”. It’s the cheaper end of town. We were too early for curry, so needed somewhere for a quick pause and found this place, so dropped in. It was fine. No ale, but Kronenbourg, friendly staff (well, they were friendly to us: the local who didn’t want to wear a mask got:

[name] Put a fucking mask on or you’re barred. No, I don’t care. Put on a fucking mask or fuck off

which is the kind of no-fucking-about attitude I last saw here)

it’s a big space too, and in general had good covid precautions and made for a nice pause for a while. It’s not a tourist pub, clearly a local drinkers pub.

The Little Bare

Bare Village, Morecambe:

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The first totally new PubBlog entry for around eight months, and a cracking micropub.

This was actually open last time we visited Morecambe, but we didn’t know about it 🙁 , so we thought we’d better remedy that error.

Great beer, a really pleasant proprietor, and a nice atmosphere. The owner stated he’d tried to make if feel a bit less like a bar in a shop, and he’d hit the mark on that. Nice, under-cover outside space too. A really good example of how to do a micropub well.

Revisits: The Dog and Partridge

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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.