Short posts for a while, getting seriously behind and Aberdeen will make it worse.
On to my penultimate East Sussex pub, and thankfully back to a traditional name after all those silly Red Lions and Five Bells.
I can assure Mark Crilley this is the only Lion and Lobster in the UK, so I now emulate Cathy Price in doing all the pubs of a particular name. I can be the Lobster Priest, like in a Fall song,
This one is just on the edge of nighttime Brighton, away from the chain pubs in the Lane and seeming like a real find among the back streets with their Bristol-emulating graffiti,
It’s very dark, and very busy, and very red. I think about a very quick half, but the music is so good I nabbed a seat at the bar. Jazz and sitting at the bar are two things you don’t expect from me.
Beer fusspots will want to know they had two Dark Stars, a Long Man and Harvey’s, which is what I went for.
It wasn’t great, but the pub somehow was, Big smiles, children, jazz aficionados eating salads at the bar, not a pashmina in sight.
So good that I stopped for a better half, Long Man I think, expertly decanted into the pint glass.
As they say, Niiiice.
retiredmartin 
Cool jazz is, IMO the ideal music for a pub. However…
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Thanks for the shout out, Martin! I am tempted to open a pub called The Lion and Lobster in the Shetland Islands just to make things difficult for you. 🙂
This “sitting at the bar” thing has got me wondering if someone has hacked into your blog, though. I thought such behavior contravened some sort of blood oath you’d sworn years ago…
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Buy the Old Forge at Inverie and rename it.
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That still going ? Thought the Belgian chef who took it on had been hounded out.
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Yup, no chance of getting in the GBG as the local branch apparently now only visit pubs accessible by public transport.
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Nothing wrong with sitting at the bar, so long as others can easily get served. Jazz in pubs can be sublime. Old Duke, King St Bristol is the epitome, spent some good times in there.
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But in pub after pub selfishly sitting at the bar means that others can NOT easily get served.
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Does happen in some places Paul and it is selfish. Who do you blame? The people sat there or the licensee for putting too many bar stools around too small a counter. Personally I blame the licensee, no stools no congestion. As in life generally, you get what you wish for and if you wish to have a congested bar then a lot of people are deterred.
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Agree.
NB I wasn’t actually at the serving part of the bar. And all the tables were taken.
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I like sitting at the bar, but I wouldn’t hog the bar so others couldn’t get served. many Snowflakes find it intimidating.
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Nice 😉
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