Chris_OGrady

It was @Miquel The Work Geordie who coined the term!

Went to Doon Spice at Blue Peter Club last week and had the lamb special which was £100 between 6 of us (you have to pre-order it at least a day before). It was a whole leg of lamb with keema and loads of rice. It was nice and something a bit different. All the food in there was tasty, but some of the portions were maybe a bit small for a group of 6. Would go again though. Luckily I was sat right underneath the TV so couldn't see any of the Leicester West Ham game. Also went to Nandos at Meridian on Sunday and it's absolute Dawn of the Deano in there

I managed a 49.13 in the Leicester 10k on Sunday which was tough! It did feel like endless loops of Victoria Park at times and was more hilly than I expected! Think I will also do the Abbey Park run in April.

Currently on cask at the Fox Cub in Barrow

Belfast was very good but, as with the rest of Ireland, you don't get much variety in beer selection from venue to venue.

Yeah agree with most of that. London is a hard one because it's SO much bigger than everywhere else. Whilst London has lots of great pub buildings, a lot of them are chain run and a bit rubbish. There's also lots of areas where there aren't many great pubs and it feels cask light compared to cities further north IMO. Haven't done Bristol, Norwich and Hull properly. Nottingham is annoyingly good. Even the suburbs are good, particularly Beeston and West Bridgford. It would be interesting to delve into villages and see what the best pub villages are in the UK. How would the likes of Barrow and Mountsorrel compare to others...

Is the foxestalk consensus that Sheffield is the best pub city in the UK? I need to get up there and try some.

Why are so many people still there?

This is a good watch, looking forward to the rest in the series.

Guildford Arms is good although gets very busy

I was down in London in the week. The Jackalope in Marylebone was a very nice pub.

I did most of January, I felt marginally better but it was very boring...

I knew we were ****ed when they were actually really effective in the West Ham game. Doomed to be forever known as a tinpot, plastic, clapper club...

If we got into the champions league, the fall eventually would have been even harder after wasting more money on crap and wage increases.

Agree on Liverpool > Manchester. There's lots of hidden gems tucked away in the Georgian Quarter which don't get much attention. Which are the ones you rate out of interest?

Apparently the Pinsent owner has bought the fishing shop in Mountsorrel and is going to move there

Was back on the booze this weekend after having most of Jan off it. I tried the Monro and Bridewell before the Everton game. Beer selection in the Monro was good, but I just didn't like the feel of the place inside. They've gone for some kind of rustic half finished decor, which makes the place feel more like a themed bar than pub. The Bridewell was good, it's an old police station which has been turned into a pub. Always a good atmosphere in there and the landlord behind the bar is a bit of a local legend- I was on the Kirkstall bitter. Generally love Liverpool for boozing (pubs and bars), and I think it's got even better since I was there for uni, with some good renovations and new additions. Was in the Fox Cub on Sunday sampling some new beers which were as good as ever.

It was better than the Blacksmiths roast

I had a roast at The Hunting Lodge in Barrow yesterday and thought it was really good. Not a massive fan of roast dinners generally, but that's the best one I've had round here (admittedly I have not been for that many).

GB is very studenty these days

Horse and Trumpet in Sileby used to be decent when it was Steamin Billy. It's now a Punch Tavern so imagine it's gone downhill (haven't been post change). Navigation in the sun is Susan.

Have you tried the Navigation yet in Barrow?

I took my Dad to Pinsent just before Christmas and he's obsessed with it now. Now I've got him out of Quorn he realises that there's better pubs elsewhere.

Afraid not. The windmill would have been perfect for that but it's gone now.

Swan in the Rushes (Old man and Castle Rock). Other notable shouts: Organ Grinder (quite traditional), White Hart (traditional pub, but stylish), Wheeltapper (micropub), Needle & Pin (micropub), Three Nuns (Traditional Everards and next to White Hart).