Where are all the decent pubs in the Midlands!

[Northern Lass]

I went up to south manchester last week...and no Rob it wasn't Salford!!

and there are loads of rural lovely pubs!!
Where are all the ones in the Midlands
where you can get a sit down meal, no kids, really good food and good service

Linell and I went to one ....won't mention it....but it used to be a cracking pub great food
great price and fabulous atmosphere bit like the Old Swan one ma pardoes
but it has changed hands and it was awful!

anyway...I know some of you live around the Mids area...so where are the gems

[Rob]

That sounds like a restaurant you're describing Northern Lassie not a pub!!!
However i agree a pub can be so many different things to people.
There's your old fashioned pub on the corner of the street where all the locals of all ages congregate.Where a good pint of beer is important.A game of darts,dominoes or cribbage in the bar and on the weekend a good Free and Easy in the lounge.My favourite sort.
There's your pub that caters to the younger crowd.The latest "sounds' and lights and wet t-shirt competitions!! I think!!
There's Wetherspoons for cheap beer.Never been in one so i so i can't comment and then you have rural pubs that cater to the Northern Lassie types and as a matter of fact my mate Winston's missus is celebrating her birthday tonight and they are going for a meal to The Beefeater pub along the Hagley Road Birmingham.So thats another type of pub!! A sort of rural pub located in the city.

[cid]

Don't know about rural, but the Windsor Castle Brewery (Saddlers) in Lye is always pretty full of diners. And you get to drink real ale.....bonus.. the food looks good too

[Rob]

That sounds like a good pub Cid.
I think i know that one.
Any more suggestions?

[mallosa]

Don't know about rural, but the Windsor Castle Brewery (Saddlers) in Lye is always pretty full of diners. And you get to drink real ale.....bonus.. the food looks good too

Just had a look at this one .........Pigs Trotters cooked slowly in a rich root vegetable gravy served with mashed potatoes

Looks good to me, see what you think NL ... here

[Northern Lass]

Sounds good!

And Roberto I know the difference between a Pub and a restaurant


I want a pub but no riff raff

[Rob]

There's no such thing as riff raff you just have to get to know them.

[Rob]

That pub looks ok doesn't it Manny.I think i'll give that a visit next time i'm over.
Let me think that's The Lamp Dudley,Ma Pardoes Netherton,The Hawthorn Blackheath,Whiteheath Tavern(my local, that's where kids i went to school with drink) and The Model Langley.Those are my favourite pubs.
The Model has a very good chef as well,or so he keeps telling me.

[mikleed]

A real Black Country pub is one that does not do any catering at all, only Crisps, Nuts, or Scratchings. Every thing else is a Resturant not a local pub, I have mentioned this in another Topic, when will people realise we have lost the original social life of the local pub, for goodness sake ! as Rob says they are not pubs but soddin Resturants all of them ! How could you play, Darts, Dominoes, whatever, with a load of gannets eating. Please get this in the right context.
A real Pub does not sell food ! ! !
Mike.

[cid]

Try the Brittania, known as Sally's, in Gornal. Bathams beer, crisps, scratchings. Not a menu in sight.......

[peterd]

A real Black Country pub is one that does not do any catering at all, only Crisps, Nuts, or Scratchings. Every thing else is a Resturant not a local pub, I have mentioned this in another Topic, when will people realise we have lost the original social life of the local pub, for goodness sake ! as Rob says they are not pubs but soddin Resturants all of them ! How could you play, Darts, Dominoes, whatever, with a load of gannets eating. Please get this in the right context.
A real Pub does not sell food ! ! !
Mike.

yeh real pubs do sell food maybe your not keen on them mike but dont forget all your so called real pubs are proberly old inns and taverns that sold food to the coaching routes and then stopped selling food as transport change a lot of the old pubs still have the gates etc where the coach and horse use to pull in

[Northern Lass]

I like a pub not a restarurant but I don't want a spit and sawdust one!

I want to wipe my feet on the way in not on the way out

I want chilled wine, table that you don't have to stick a beer mat under and no dogs!
or kids! deffo no kids!

I want decent food and great staff!
Clean glasses and no loud music.

A restaurant come pub pub come restaurant but where you can go in your casuals

I do like Ma Pardoes but too far
Wolverhampton way is good.

[cid]

Went to the Beacon in Sedgley last night. The seafood man came round. does that count?
NL you wouldn't like it, there was a dog and some kids...................

[Northern Lass]

Went to the Beacon in Sedgley last night. The seafood man came round. does that count?
NL you wouldn't like it, there was a dog and some kids...................

Wolvie likes that pub he of the clicking jaw and dog sitting capability
he goes there with his mates after badders
and piles on all the calories he has just burnt up

but he has that sylph like toned physique that people like Bob can only
dream of achieving

[mikleed]

Petard my friend you are talking about country and village pubs, I mean pubs in the working class conurbation, in small towns there wouldn't be room for a pub with access for a coach and horses, maybe in our Black Country they would be in Walsall,Wednesbury,Wolverhampton, and there is one in Bilston which may have been used for coach and horses, but to name a few, imagine trying to get a coach and horses in a place like Willenhall. and yet is full if little local pubs,I see you are from Co. Durham it may be differnt in the North East ! I don't think canal side pubs for instance would cater for travellers on a coach!
Mike.