When we look back critically at our first year in The North next month we’ll balance the progress on the hedge and the calories lost walking up Whitehouse Lane against progress on the hedge and a failure to get to grips with the Peak District on our doorstep. Well, the Peak will always be there,… Continue reading TO THE MOORS
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ANTIQUE SHOPPING IN HEELEY
The Privileged Few get their advance copy of the new Good Beer Guide (2022) in the next week, and the whole process of GBG ticking starts afresh. My Ticking Year (£25.99 via Amazon) will come to an end when the Guide is officially released on 12 November (ideal Christmas present for your niece) and the… Continue reading ANTIQUE SHOPPING IN HEELEY
SHEFFIELD’S PUB HERITAGE
The problem with Sheffield, if you’re a pub ticker, is that it’s easy to be distracted from The True Path (ONLY visit new GBG pubs, don’t get distracted by revisits and beer festivals and keg pubs). We’re getting a few visitors now from backwaters such as Cambridge and Dereham and Hook, and they all expect… Continue reading SHEFFIELD’S PUB HERITAGE
ALL THE PUBS IN SHEFFIELD ON FOOT REACHES THE QUESTIONABLE CAFE BARS
Sheffield doesn’t rest on its laurels. Another month, another new bar opening to follow Heist and Perch this summer. More options for the ever increasing number of undergraduates flooding into the city’s new build student residences, I guess. Mrs RM actually finds out about these new openings before me, or at least she did before… Continue reading ALL THE PUBS IN SHEFFIELD ON FOOT REACHES THE QUESTIONABLE CAFE BARS
IN DA CLUB (ECCLESALL ROAD)
I’m making decent progress towards the GBG, a dozen new ticks a week is typical, but I keep being distracted by Sheffield. And after a mucked up attempt to complete Sheffield with BRAPA this month, in which I left Simon in the care of more experienced Pub Men, I was feeling miffed I’d missed the… Continue reading IN DA CLUB (ECCLESALL ROAD)
MOONSHINE AND MAGIC IN THE MILLOWNERS ARMS
One last pint with Mick before he hit the Doom Bar in Sheffield’s iconic Wetherspoons, and one that wasn’t on his map. The Millowners Rest Arms, the pub for the wonderful (and free) Kelham Island Industrial Museum, was off my radar too. But once you’ve done the Fat Cat and the KIT it’s worth popping… Continue reading MOONSHINE AND MAGIC IN THE MILLOWNERS ARMS
TOP 100 PUBS – HARLEQUIN, SHEFFIELD
When I can’t find anything that rhymes with a pub, I just lump it in the Top 100 pubs. SURELY you know that by now. The Harlequin, one of 57 excellent free houses within stumbling distance of Citra’s luxurious hotel in Sheffield, had been calling me since pubs re-opened, but I’d been saving it for… Continue reading TOP 100 PUBS – HARLEQUIN, SHEFFIELD
CITRA MEETS SHAKESPEARE
This post is brought to you from the (unofficial) car park at Aysgarth Falls. I’ve checked, and there isn’t a micropub at the bottom. Last week Citra came to Sheffield. About time too. If he’d given more notice he could have kipped in our new garden shed; same offer I made the in-laws. 15 minutes… Continue reading CITRA MEETS SHAKESPEARE
TREATED LIKE ROYALTY IN SUBURBAN SHEFFIELD
My first possibility was “The slow, sad decline of midweek drinking“, a rumination on the emptiness of pubs outside the weekend rush (see also: Life After Football). Plenty of pubs round me, of course, and as you’ll know I intend to visit EVERY one of them on foot, even though that’ll muck up my GBG… Continue reading TREATED LIKE ROYALTY IN SUBURBAN SHEFFIELD
ALL THE PUBS IN SHEFFIELD ON FOOT No. 48
“Oooh, that looks nice” said Mrs RM, as we headed home from Perch past the Emergency Services Museum. ALL THE PUBS IN SHEFFIELD ON FOOT No. 48 – The Bar Stewards In truth, I’d had enough beer for one day, but Mrs RM never takes “No” for an answer does she folks ? So just… Continue reading ALL THE PUBS IN SHEFFIELD ON FOOT No. 48
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