Then, Preston, so...

[ad hoc]

Ooh. Thanks

Though I will mostly be in locations that I suspect don't have many waitroses - Liverpool then Preston then Stoke

[Gerontophile]

They are delicious.

[Kevin S]

Just a public service announcement for you, ad hoc, while you're in Blighty; these have got 30p off in Waitrose atm.

[Third rate Leszno]

I went to a micro in Preston on my way to Blackburn last December - the Guild Ale House, next to the Guildhall funnily enough. Got to read the 1980-81 edition of Rothmans while enjoying a nice pint of something by Wilde Child.

Yeah, I've been in there and it's very good - provided you like real ale, obvs.

There seems to be another micropub nearer the station, called the Plug and Taps - not tried it myself but it seems to get decent reviews.

[Moonlight Shadow]

I am half-tempted meself chaps....

[treibeis]

Your golf hut was probably a micropub before micropubs got trendy.

No. The regulars wouldn't have allowed "conversation".

[San Bernardhinault]

Your golf hut was probably a micropub before micropubs got trendy.

[treibeis]

Has the micropub boom not hit Preston?

I just looked up what a micropub is. I think I'm supposed to like it, but I'm not sure. Wikipedia goes on about "conversation" and stuff - and, above all, mottos and non-acronyms and "keep it simple" and that. I'm not sure.

[Nocturnal Submission]

I think they were an '80s hair metal band from Cincinnati.

[longeared]

Has the micropub boom not hit Preston?

I went to a micro in Preston on my way to Blackburn last December - the Guild Ale House, next to the Guildhall funnily enough. Got to read the 1980-81 edition of Rothmans while enjoying a nice pint of something by Wilde Child.

[ad hoc]

Well there will only be one of me, so arguably I am an odd lot off the messageboard. I recommend dampening down her expectations - I mean it sounds like they are pretty low already, but they can never be too low.

If you're hungry (which I assume you will be at some point) eat at Jaffa's, top middle eastern/Mediterranean food in a smart but no-frills environment at a price that will keep your wallet happy too.

this sounds good, and fairly appropriate too, since the event I'm going to is focussed on Gaza

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

Signora Rogin has expressed an interest to come and meet someone from "the odd lot off your messageboard", especially as she knows it was you that gave us some tips about Cluj and Romania before we went there. I once took her out of our way on a holiday in Devon to have a drink with Toro Toro.

[sw2borshch]

Has the micropub boom not hit Preston?

[Giggler]

Is the Sun on Friargate still there? That was always my preferred pub when I was at university. In my first year when the cash dried up, the one night out a week I allowed myself was five pints of Smooth in the Sun (£9) and a bag of chips on the walk home.

[Mumpo]

If you're hungry (which I assume you will be at some point) eat at Jaffa's, top middle eastern/Mediterranean food in a smart but no-frills environment at a price that will keep your wallet happy too.

It's just eastwards a bit of the Legacy, on Friargate.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

I've worked at the Wetherspoons. It's in the same building as the Job Centre. This says something about British society, I'm just not sure what.

That Wetherspoons is one in the "rough as" category. There's another one now up the other end of town in an old bank that is quite grand in comparison. However, I reckon the 2 most OTFish pubs at the Uni/station end of town, and both a five minute walk from ad hoc's hotel, will be the Old Black Bull and the smaller but victorianly quaint Black Horse.

[Duncan Gardner]

More Lancastrian football- Brexit tie-ins: Fleetwood Town's reserve keeper is the stepson of a DUP MP

[ad hoc]

Yeah, I think that statue of Tom Finney is more my cup of tea.

[DCI Harry Batt]

Preston is the site of the first Kentucky Fried Chicken in this country. This information was discovered, by me, on a football trip, and is therefore football-related.

[EIM]

I've worked at the Wetherspoons. It's in the same building as the Job Centre. This says something about British society, I'm just not sure what.

[Southport Zeb]

There must be some pub which is part of the excellent initiative described by Chakrabortty which allows the funds you spend on your night out to stay in Preston instead of the said cunt 's pocket or to pay for the pro-Brexit beer mats which will be on the table in front of you

I think the pub by the station has tarted itself up a bit and no longer has an IRA collection box if that helps

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

You're not wrong about yer man Martin and his views. I was getting ahead of myself and wishing that by April all this nonsense will be over and he'll be eating humble pie. Well okay, I'd prefer an early doors meet up tbh so I'll research where you are hotel wise and come up with a plan that could also suit any other potential thon-ers.

[Nefertiti2]

There must be some pub which is part of the excellent initiative described by Chakrabortty which allows the funds you spend on your night out to stay in Preston instead of the said cunt 's pocket or to pay for the pro-Brexit beer mats which will be on the table in front of you

[ad hoc]

Sort of rather not go to a Wetherspoons, not for any snob reasons, as many of them seem pretty OK, but just because of that cunt who owns them.

[ad hoc]

There are one or two nice and interesting old pubs still in Preston. EIM will want to cover his ears but there's a Wetherspoons in an old bank that is nice as a meeting place, at the other end of Fishergate (the main shopping street) from the train station, closer to the old town square, church and our fantastic brutalist bus station. What sort of time on that Friday did you have in mind?

Any time, really whenever suits you. I think I'm getting in around 4 or 5ish and I don't really have any plans for the evening at all. If you feel like getting a couple in early, I could do that, if you'd rather do more of a night out thing, likewise. I'm staying at something grandly called the Legacy International (I seem to remember)