April 2024. St. Leonards-on-Sea.
Like Hastings itself, St Leonards seems to have several distinct areas,
and after that craft diversion in the heart of Warrior Square’s vegan cat crochet cafes I headed the half mile north to the more “earthy” bit
My new Guide tick (yep, still ticking, just more slowly) was a mile north, but I couldn’t resist the siren call of the Tower, the GBG perennial.
Why is it a GBG perennial ? I wondered as I squeezed past the smokers at the door and the bar flies at the pumps.
Oh yes…
Quite a generous beer range for what feels like a locals corner pub run by, or for, Arsenal fans.
Hard to pick a beer but I always like to drink Hophead now it’s been disowned by the CAMRA “provenance purists” and no doubt I’ll like it even more if it moves to Wolverhampton.
What a lovely cool, rich, foamy pint (3.5), just as it had been on my visit pre-2015, and the bar flies were as pleasant as a landlady who supplied the line of the day;
“Oi, my plain chocolate digestives got changed to milk ones“.
That sort of domestic disaster detail is why we go to pubs, as well as using the loos of course.
No-one seemed that interested in the Spurs being hammered at Newcastle, so perhaps not quite as big an Arsenal contingent as the walls suggest.
Is this a little slice of old London overspill or a dollop of new St Leonard’s ?
Who cares ? A minor classic.
retiredmartin 
St. Leonards is a good drinking town. I’m not a fan of pubs with big screens everywhere, though. A TV in the corner, which is turned on and off for big sporting events, is more to my liking.
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