Dick and Dave will be safely Back in the USA (was that a song ?) now, but will have to wait a little while longer for my post while I run it past Trump Towers. Instead I want to praise an unassuming little Essex pub five miles from Harwich Ferry, in the Beer Guide for… Continue reading STUCK IN THE MIDDLE OF WIX
Tag: Essex
BILLERICAY- REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL
It’s raining micropubs in Essex, though in Billericay this is as much the Tap and bottle shop as micro. Billericay Brewing is in a prime spot behind the Waitrose, allowing a division of labour between buying Tzatziki and 7% IPAs if there’s two of you. The Tap Room is functional but pleasant, and you’ll struggle to… Continue reading BILLERICAY- REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL
CHELMSFORD – REAL MICROPUBS, FAKE PUB CATS
Autumn is a good season for me to reacquaint myself with all my favourite East Anglian towns, most of which seem to have a lone new entry in the Beer Guide this year. Surely micros will take over Essex as completely as they have done Bexley and Bromley; if they ever get to Harlow you’ll know they’ve arrived.… Continue reading CHELMSFORD – REAL MICROPUBS, FAKE PUB CATS
TERROR & MENU RETRIEVAL IN EPPING FOREST
Epping Forest is an underrated gem, particularly on a stomp through the crisp autumn leaves, only 20 minutes walk from the end of the Central Line. It’s particularly well signposted, and has some impressively pointless boardwalks. That signage didn’t stop me getting seriously off-piste as I approached the M11. No-one else about on a glorious… Continue reading TERROR & MENU RETRIEVAL IN EPPING FOREST
HALSTEAD’S BEER HEROES
I was reading the Morning Advertiser and noticed the finalists in the Great British Pub Best Beer Awards; Bunch of Grapes, Pontypridd, South Wales Purecraft Bar & Kitchen, Birmingham The Craft Beer Co, Leather Lane, Clerkenwell, Central London The Griffin, Halstead, Essex The Grove, Huddersfield The Sheffield Tap, Sheffield Hard to argue with the five… Continue reading HALSTEAD’S BEER HEROES
“FIND THE PUB” IN FINCHINGFIELD
An outrageous claim for my 500th post; the hardest pub to find in Braintree district. I love a challenge. Pub Curmudgeon is fortunate to live close enough to the famous Nursery Inn to know how to get to it. In the days before Google Maps (and possibly before Stockport was mapped), I had real problems finding… Continue reading “FIND THE PUB” IN FINCHINGFIELD
BRENTWOOD – THE ONLY WAY IS BASS
I’d been looking forward to Brentwood for a while, my visit probably not as big a boost to their embryonic tourism industry as TOWIE. I did once watch TOWIE while on holiday under the misapprehension that it was real. To be honest the big appeal of the ‘Wood was the chance to tick off a tricky pub… Continue reading BRENTWOOD – THE ONLY WAY IS BASS
DENGIE’S NOT DINGY
We’re taking our campervan for some short breaks in Britain’s top destinations – Newark, Bury St Edmunds and the Dengie peninsula. Mrs RM did a robust business case before spending our children’s inheritance on what’s effectively a portable Travelodge, but even at assumed post-Brexit discount rates of more than 50% p.a. we need to use… Continue reading DENGIE’S NOT DINGY
CONSISTENCY IN COLCHESTER
Only one Essex pub to go in the 2016 Beer Guide, and Colchester is always worth a visit, though few potential tourists seem to agree. A bit like Essex in general, Colchester suffers a bit from being not quite as good as other historic towns like Chester or Lincoln. The coast to the south and east is… Continue reading CONSISTENCY IN COLCHESTER
JAYWICK REBORN
Defying forecasts, the weather stayed dreary but dry today, obliging Mrs RM to join me on a 10 mile walk somewhere, anywhere. From a shortlist of Jaywick, Colindale, Holbeach and Leicester, Mrs RM chose to revisit coastal Essex and see how the much maligned holiday village had progressed since 2010. Jaywick has had a hard… Continue reading JAYWICK REBORN
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