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The best pub in Cardiff?
I'm so bored with flat pack gastro pubs that sell mediocre beer and have as much atmosphere as the moon.
I want a proper boozer. Good pint, selection of bar snacks, juke box, dart board, pool table, skittles, beer garden, fruit machine, occasional live bands, pub quiz and a bar maid straight out of a Carry on film.
Does it exist?
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Re: The best pub in Cardiff?
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Originally Posted by
The Bob Banker Spanker
Rompney Castle.
That's a Brains pub isn't it?
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Re: The best pub in Cardiff?
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Originally Posted by
Barry Shitpeas
I'm so bored with flat pack gastro pubs that sell mediocre beer and have as much atmosphere as the moon.
I want a proper boozer. Good pint, selection of bar snacks, juke box, dart board, pool table, skittles, beer garden, fruit machine, occasional live bands, pub quiz and a bar maid straight out of a Carry on film.
Does it exist?
No,they've all shut down, and reopened to cater for lager wankers
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Re: The best pub in Cardiff?
The butchers in Llandaff is good - no pool table though
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Raiderbankk
Not a bad shout. Another Brains pub though, which puts me off. Apart from Dark, Brains don't really make a decent pint.
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Was in the Birchgrove to listen to a singist last Saturday, proper throwback , full of over fifties all arseholed . Good curry up the road as well .
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Re: The best pub in Cardiff?
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Barry Shitpeas
That's a Brains pub isn't it?
Not Brains anymore.
One of the Borley's own it I believe, full of sports (mainly City) memorabilia.
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The Bob Banker Spanker
Not Brains anymore.
One of the Borley's own it I believe, full of sports (mainly City) memorabilia.
It's Steve Borley's boozer.
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Re: The best pub in Cardiff?
golden lion in penarth is a good shout, so is the albion
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TISS
golden lion in penarth is a good shout, so is the albion
Bit rough in there imo
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Queen's Faults has footy, pool table, darts,smelly toilets,good food,old carpets /furniture, wobbly chairs, big television, TV over the bar , pork crackling, near staggering distance to bus /rail station, real ales/ciders,foxy barmaids, jukebox, three doorways for quick escape.
Heaven whilst it lasts.
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Always loved The Albany in Roath, and The Royal Exchange in Llandaff North. Both Brains pubs which I find to be the best in these parts, but always guest ales on. The Royal Exchange in particular, pours a good pint of whatever they have as they are old school with regards to cellar / barrel / pipe maintenance.
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life on mars
Queen's Faults has footy, pool table, darts,smelly toilets,good food,old carpets /furniture, wobbly chairs, big television, TV over the bar , pork crackling, near staggering distance to bus /rail station, real ales/ciders,foxy barmaids, jukebox, three doorways for quick escape.
Heaven whilst it lasts.
None of us is perfect.
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Re: The best pub in Cardiff?
The best pub, depends on the person using it and what they are after.
I travel to Canton, for the best homely pub, which is THE CANTON.
It's like your nanna's front room, but it is full of personalities and a great game of Don (cards), on a Sunday.
Music every Sunday, darts and pool and a robbing barsteward of a landlord :hehe: makes it one of the last local pubs in Cardiff.
Won't suit a lot of people though.
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barrybloo
The canton cross.
Did my first ever gig in here, back in the day! :oh:
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Steve R
Did my first ever gig in here, back in the day! :oh:
Where did you leave the horse & cart. :hehe:
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BLUETIT
I travel to Canton, for the best homely pub, which is THE CANTON.
It's like your nanna's front room, but it is full of personalities and a great game of Don (cards), on a Sunday.
What? Full of cats and stinks of piss?
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Steve R
What? Full of cats and stinks of piss?
Well it's full of pussy every Sunday. :thumbup:
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I can tell you what the worse pub in Cardiff is by a mile - the stinking Village Inn, Pentwyn :wave:
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Chris Pontprennau Blues
I can tell you what the worse pub in Cardiff is by a mile - the stinking Village Inn, Pentwyn :wave:
Used to spend many an hour in there when I lived in Pontprennau. It was weird then too! Think the black guy who once ran Rumpoles had it then? Could be completely making that up mind.
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Chris Pontprennau Blues
I can tell you what the worse pub in Cardiff is by a mile - the stinking Village Inn, Pentwyn :wave:
Unfortunately this is the closest pub to where I live & I have to agree with you
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Re: The best pub in Cardiff?
The Borough and The Queens Vaults are the best pubs in the city centre. The best pub I've ever been in was The Dusty Forge in Ely, sadly closed in the early nineties and is now a community centre .
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ian gibson
The Borough and The Queens Vaults are the best pubs in the city centre. The best pub I've ever been in was The Dusty Forge in Ely, sadly closed in the early nineties and is now a community centre .
Ahh, The Dusty Forge. Was a bit before my time but a legendary place which apparently welcomed no-one, including the regulars :hehe:
Heard there was an OB sting there once where they had a stakeout in a house behind it to watch the comings and goings
:hehe:
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Back in 1980 a minibus full of Chelsea hooligans stopped off for a pint in the Dusty on their way back from Swansea. Big mistake :hehe:
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ian gibson
Back in 1980 a minibus full of Chelsea hooligans stopped off for a pint in the Dusty on their way back from Swansea. Big mistake :hehe:
Now that's a story I'd like to read a few chapters on. Iif only social media was around then. Facebook live, from the Dusty Forge car park :hehe:
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Three Elms is pretty good, Sam owners as the Queens Vaults.
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Play pool in the Napier on a Sunday, sure they used it as location for the bar in Star Wars :hehe:
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Re: The best pub in Cardiff?
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Originally Posted by
BLUETIT
The best pub, depends on the person using it and what they are after.
I travel to Canton, for the best homely pub, which is THE CANTON.
It's like your nanna's front room, but it is full of personalities and a great game of Don (cards), on a Sunday.
Music every Sunday, darts and pool and a robbing barsteward of a landlord :hehe: makes it one of the last local pubs in Cardiff.
Won't suit a lot of people though.
I used to live on Springfield Place and I've spent plenty of time in the Corp and some in the Butchers, Napier etc. but I don't think I've EVER had a pint in the Canton.
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mrbluejay
Three Elms is pretty good, Sam owners as the Queens Vaults.
Do the SoUl CrEw drink with Sam when they get their UpDaTeS. :hehe:
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Re: The best pub in Cardiff?
The best pubs are outside of Cardiff.
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Barry Shitpeas
Not a bad shout. Another Brains pub though, which puts me off. Apart from Dark, Brains don't really make a decent pint.
Hand-pumped SA Gold is pretty good, if the landlord knows how to keep Real Ale, which is a problem with most so they revert to lager types and the awful "creamflow" or "smooth" bitters ( as per that ghastly John Smiths shite.:puke:
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Re: The best pub in Cardiff?
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Originally Posted by
Barry Shitpeas
Not a bad shout. Another Brains pub though, which puts me off. Apart from Dark, Brains don't really make a decent pint.
SA Gold is decent as a summer glug.
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Re: The best pub in Cardiff?
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Originally Posted by
The Bob Banker Spanker
Rompney Castle.
:thumbup:
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Re: The best pub in Cardiff?
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Originally Posted by
BLUETIT
The best pub, depends on the person using it and what they are after.
I travel to Canton, for the best homely pub, which is THE CANTON.
It's like your nanna's front room, but it is full of personalities and a great game of Don (cards), on a Sunday.
Music every Sunday, darts and pool and a robbing barsteward of a landlord :hehe: makes it one of the last local pubs in Cardiff.
Won't suit a lot of people though.
:thumbup:
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Re: The best pub in Cardiff?
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Originally Posted by
Chris Pontprennau Blues
I can tell you what the worse pub in Cardiff is by a mile - the stinking Village Inn, Pentwyn :wave:
I used to work near there and it was our "Friday pub". Awful place, but I'll see your village inn and raise you a ffynon wen. Nice building, but other than that, absolutely no redeeming features whatsoever.
My favourite pub? Most of them are more like restaurants than puns these days, but my favourite is probably the Deri.
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Arfur Europe
Used to spend many an hour in there when I lived in Pontprennau. It was weird then too! Think the black guy who once ran Rumpoles had it then? Could be completely making that up mind.
You're not
Think his name was Hedley or something like that???
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Re: The best pub in Cardiff?
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Originally Posted by
ian gibson
The Borough and The Queens Vaults are the best pubs in the city centre. The best pub I've ever been in was The Dusty Forge in Ely, sadly closed in the early nineties and is now a community centre .
Remember the first ever quiz they had in the Dusty. 1st question was "who the fu*k you looking at?"