September 2024. Filey.
A Tuesday in Filey, just like in the John Denver song.
We’d come for company and curry as much as cask, but 4:30pm was a bit too early for Monsoon Indian, even for Stafford Paul.
So we did the micro.
I know, I know, a man in North Yorkshire should do Proper Pubs with Tim Taylors and Old Peculiar, but the Cobblers is the other GBG25 entry along with the Station, and I sensed the Southworths needed permission to go in.
At least it would be quiet at 4:30 on a damp late September Tuesday, right ?
Wrong, absolutely packed, with Mrs RM working some sort of magic to find a long bench in the family room while the lads queued at the bar.
And queued. It must have been 10 minutes, not quite Grantham Spoons but enough to leave our Pubman of the Year 2019 wondering if Dave and Dick had given up and gone for a dip in the North Sea.
Incidentally, Dave took the best photos in Filey, and the Joan (Whitby) Jett line is worth repeating.
I’d been to the Cobblers before, pre-emptively in fact, when I noted;
“Breaking the micro mould, it also had Coors Light, a family room, and free tax advice (mostly, don’t trust someone called David). If it’s not in GBG 18,someone has had dodgy tax advice.”
Quite a middle-aged crowd, but there’s nothing wrong with that; Mrs RM and I will be middle-aged soon.
The North Riding toffee porter was a sticky 3.5; Mrs RM nicked mine. I preferred the Three Brothers AU (3.5). A wildly experimental Wainwright was less successful, but we felt we had to try such a rare beer.
Perhaps not one for the traditionalist,
but the other customers were as lovely as the Lamb Handi in Monsoon an hour later.
Honestly, a Top 20 curry house, and BYO too.
Someone should have asked if we could have nipped our pints of North Riding across the road à la Burton. But no-one did.
retiredmartin 
Unbelievable curry. They have had the same chef for ten years! The micro was packed and that was true of most Filey pubs. They seemed really well used.
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That’s great to hear. Not obviously tourist trade either and daytrippers would have gone home.
NB There’s a brand new Wetherspoons at the holiday park just south of town (only really intended for holidaymakers) so that must affect trade a bit.
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“but 4:30pm was a bit too early for Monsoon Indian, even for Stafford Paul”
Not really, the Morris Man opens at 4.30pm on weekdays and I’m often their first diner.
Delayed by four Newark pubs, a pint in Tamworth and a Bass in the Railway, I wasn’t there much before 7pm on Monday by which time the lounge was quite full with its wonderfully diverse clientele.
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4:30pm would be lunch in some countries !
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Well yes, but 5am to 9am used to be the best part of the day, at least in Smithfield.
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