The Griffin in Plumtree is just off the main road through the village, on their website they describe themselves as ‘a traditional English village pub at the centre of the community where diners and drinkers alike are welcome throughout the day’ Sounds alright doesn’t it? I haven’t been here for ages, I checked my own…
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Breakfast at the Trent Navigation
The Trent Navigation Inn on Meadow Lane is adjacent to and the Tap pub for the Navigation Brewery. It has always been a solid and reliable pub for a pint and a bit of pub grub and we have been here many a time pre and post football and cricket matches. Over the years I…
Pub Lunch at The Stratford Haven
The Stratford Haven on Stratford Road in West Bridgford is an excellent local pub for a pint and a bit of pub grub. I can still remember the days when the building was a pet shop as we used to go there to get stuff for our cats and dogs, that was back in the…
Pub lunch at Fellows, Morton & Clayton
I have written a lot of blog posts about eating at the Fellows, Morton & Clayton pub over the years. In that time it has change hands a fair bit and was closed for a while, so each time I do come it has been different. We were out on a beer bimble this particular…
First Proper Pub Crawl for ages: Beer, Pie and Chips
The restrictions have been lifted and we are back to some sort of normal, so we took the afternoon off and had a good old fashioned pub crawl around some of our favorite watering holes. Mainly just because we could and also to see if we could remember what to do! 🙂 It has been…
Pub Food at Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem
We took a stroll up to the Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem this evening to grab a pint and get some food. It was a nice evening and even though we are now allowed to go back inside to eat, I felt happier outside in the fresh air. The bonus for me was that as…
The Navigation: Friday night out for Pub Grub and Real Ale
The Navigation Inn on Wilford Street lies right next to the Castle Gate Lock and on the city side of the bridge over the canal. This Friday we were hunting around for somewhere to grab a bit of food and a pint, and remembered this place so we came along to see if we could…
The Pubs are Open so lets go Back to the Vat and Fiddle
I confess that this post is a little bit self indulgent and only really written to post the moments when me and my mate Martin finally got to meet for a beer some 6 months since our last outing down the pub The pubs are finally back open, well open outside anyway so we can…
Sunday Lunch at Fellows Morton and Clayton
Fellows, Morton & Clayton or FMC as we call the place for short was our port of call by the canal for Sunday Lunch this week. I have eaten and imbibed here a lot over the years and have blogged several times about the place. In that time a number of landlords and Landladies have…
Sunday Lunch at the Roundhouse
The Roundhouse in Nottingham was taken over by the team behind the excellent award winning Bakehouse in Sherwood earlier in the year. We really meant to hit them up for Sunday Lunch back in March but then Covid reared it’s head and lockdown happened so we missed our chance. This weekend we were up by…