{"id":1144,"date":"2015-07-09T13:32:24","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T12:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=1144"},"modified":"2015-07-23T16:58:44","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T15:58:44","slug":"brewers-fayre-walsall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=1144","title":{"rendered":"Brewers Fayre (Walsall)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walsall:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m14!1m8!1m3!1d1212.045764248493!2d-1.987085!3d52.58603840000001!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x0%3A0x421996fbc5efc34b!2sBrewers+Fayre!5e0!3m2!1sen!2suk!4v1437665707984\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is a purpose-built Brewers Fayre at the bottom of a Premier Inn, on the edge of the town centre by <a href=\"http:\/\/canalplan.org.uk\/gazetteer\/nogg\">Town Wharf<\/a>, and hence right next to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=94\">The Wharf<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s exactly what you&#8217;d expect in many ways: bland, lacking in soul, currently-fashionable pubco decor, but for what it is, it is OK. The food was perfectly OK (but, as a note to the world in general, burgers should come on baps, not Ciabatta), there was decent real ale and wine, and the outside seating by the wharfside is pleasant on a sunny day. Staff were pleasant, and the whole place was clean. If you were considering a stop in Walsall, the hotel seems good enough, and the location&#8217;s good for the station, shopping, town centre pubs\/restaurants, and art gallery.<\/p>\n<p>For some reason, its own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brewersfayre.co.uk\/pub-restaurant\/West-Midlands\/Walsall-Walsall.html\">website<\/a> lists it as being near <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Selly_Manor\">Selly Manor<\/a>, which is both a bit random, and untrue, as Selly Manor is someway south of Birmingham, so if you were visiting there, there&#8217;s many, many hotels closer. Presumably someone at Whitbread HQ searched for historic buildings nearby and randomly picked it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walsall: This is a purpose-built Brewers Fayre at the bottom of a Premier Inn, on the edge of the town centre by Town Wharf, and hence right next to The Wharf. It&#8217;s exactly what you&#8217;d expect in many ways: bland, lacking in soul, currently-fashionable pubco decor, but for what it is, it is OK. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=1144\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brewers Fayre (Walsall)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,12,198,4,196],"class_list":["post-1144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-walsall","tag-ale","tag-canal","tag-chain","tag-food","tag-walsall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}