March 2024. Driffield.
2 hours home from Flamborough Head, or it would have been but for a crash just north of the M62 near Goole. Why always Goole.
Thankfully I’d taken Mrs RM’s advice, there’s a first time for everything, and we’d stopped for a late lunch in Driffield.
I’m sure there’s more attractions stops, but I’d wanted to see Driffield,
that centre of UK art,
and I knew it had a Spoons. And if you think me a rural dining pub in East Yorkshire will be serving food at 2:30pm on a Monday then I suggest you get out more.
The Benjamin Fawcett has just lost its covered Guide listing, so persists with the GBG23 stickers but I doubt anyone cares. Except on Discourse.
A dull beer range so the Old Peculier (£2.07, oddly) picks itself for Mrs RM while I have a Becks 0.0 which shows the Germans do those N/A things best.
Pensioners portions for food, the fish looks a little sad but it’s a fiver. Mrs RM’s OP lacks a little bite, too.
It’s “OK”, but a pleasant Spoons is barely ticking over at 3pm on a Monday even at those prices, so I dread to think how Driffield’s other pubs are coping.
This chap was the only other drinker. Nice jacket mate.
Perhaps the international brewers collaborative beers will drag them in now the Beer Festival has started.
Remember Driffield; Sir Tim isn’t afraid to close “much loved” but underperforming pubs.
retiredmartin 
“Remember Driffield; Sir Tim isn’t afraid to close “much loved” but underperforming pubs.”
But Driffield; Stonegate ( or Davenports ) can come along and revitalise underperforming pubs.
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Or Black Country Ales ?
I remember the time there were 4 beer Guide entries, even before the Spoons and micro.
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Which would make me a potential (if unlikely) customer. 🙂
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“Or Black Country Ales ?”
Angus has got his fifty pubs now and might not be interested in any more.
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Paul, a local pub run by a small business shut down recently. Word is that GK are interested. Some people are never satisfied.
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Economies of scale. Works better for some than others.
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A man who is bored of Driffield is bored of life.
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Etu,
GK hoping to bring the runner up Champion Beer of Britain to more pub goers ?
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I had an English teacher who insisted – quite incorrectly – that runcible spoons were forks.
Archbishop Robert Runcie showed exceptional courage on active service in WWII, and was nicknamed Killer Runcie.
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I never knew that about the Archbishop. Invaluable work, as always as Reg.
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Got the MC for rescuing one of his men from a crippled tank and then knocked out three anti tank guns. Brave man.
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Not intentionally but I’ve used four of Tim’s former venues in recent weeks.
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