November 2023. Norwich. Ornate, and Art Nouveau, the arcade leading you to your first Norwich tick in GBG24. Yes, straight through to Norwich‘s colourful market, best seen from space (top). For such a revered real ale city, the actual centre of Norwich doesn’t have as many great pubs as just outside the ring road. I… Continue reading TICKING SIR TOBY AT NORWICH MARKET
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DOES NORWICH STILL CUT THE MUSTARD ?
November 2023. Norwich. Back home in Waterbeach attempting to care for Mum and Dad I can only look on with admiration, but not resentment, as BRAPA does the whole of Northants in a week and Duncan does Dartmouth, which sounds like a less successful to the controversial 1978 original. There aren’t many easy Guide pickings… Continue reading DOES NORWICH STILL CUT THE MUSTARD ?
Retired Martin’s Honest Norwich Reappraisal Part IV – “You can taste the black treacle in this”
17th March 2023. The three (3) new Beer Guide entries in the bag, Norwich had delivered a better performance than expected, and now it was time to head “home” to That Waterbeach, the craft capital of the Fens. But the walk back to the station would only take 20 minutes if I didn’t stop at… Continue reading Retired Martin’s Honest Norwich Reappraisal Part IV – “You can taste the black treacle in this”
Retired Martin’s Honest Norwich Reappraisal Part III – A little piece of Norwich Over The Water that is forever York
17th March 2023. Two down in Norwich, one to go. I must have done this walk from station up Magdalene Street a couple of dozen times, even stayed in the Maid’s Head for £35 once; perhaps I should have slowed down to appreciate the merits of the market, and the “baroque” (per Pevsner) splendour of… Continue reading Retired Martin’s Honest Norwich Reappraisal Part III – A little piece of Norwich Over The Water that is forever York
Retired Martin’s Honest Norwich Reappraisal Part II – It’s all gone a bit Pat Benatar in the Walnut Tree Shades
17th March 2023. 5.30pm, Friday evening, central Norwich. My train back to the Fens left in two hours. Plenty of time to complete the trio of new Guide ticks, AND nip in Primark to buy a new pair of jeans (pic only available to Supremely Patronised readers). Google tells me I spent 7 minutes in… Continue reading Retired Martin’s Honest Norwich Reappraisal Part II – It’s all gone a bit Pat Benatar in the Walnut Tree Shades
Retired Martin’s Honest Norwich Reappraisal Part I
17th March 2023. I’ve been spending 3 days a week down with my parents, giving Dad guided tours of Fenland urbanisation projects and garden centres. On the upside, I get to see my parents and am guaranteed crispy beef and Singapore rice (plus a NEW dish !); on the downside it limits my chances to… Continue reading Retired Martin’s Honest Norwich Reappraisal Part I
BEER NUTS & ARTICHOKES
Not many Bob Carters in the Beer Guide, or Artichokes. Plenty of pubs, though, in one of the prime cities for GBG entries. The Artichoke is just north of Norwich’s artisanal inner ring road, and I must have walked past the pub’s lovely flinty curves a dozen times en route to the Lord Rosebery, Duke,… Continue reading BEER NUTS & ARTICHOKES
“YOU RECOMMEND ONE”
I mentioned I had two pubs left to do in Norwich. Actually, only one, as a bit more detective work revealed that the Lord Rosebery was merely the newly ennobled but still wonderful Rosebery. So, just the Golden Star to visit and I could wobble back to Cambridge, hopefully remembering to change at Ely, as… Continue reading “YOU RECOMMEND ONE”
MEETING THE CAMPAIGN FOR EXCELLENT LAGER IN NORWICH
You’ll know that Norwich are doing some City of Beer thing this week because they shout about it a lot. Essentially a “my city’s got more pumps than yours” shout-out, to which Derby, Sheffield and (regrettably) Manchester respond like a seven year old child. Luckily Dick and Dave aren’t suckered in by this nonsense,… Continue reading MEETING THE CAMPAIGN FOR EXCELLENT LAGER IN NORWICH
BREWDOG LIVES !
Tuesday night I was in Deansgate, walking back from a magical Julia Jacklin gig at Gorilla (keg Beavertown) to the equally magical Trivelles Hotel (£32) in Salford. It is possible that none of those names will mean anything to you, but I do hope that you remedy the absence of Julia Jacklin’s music from your… Continue reading BREWDOG LIVES !
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