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mart166

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  1. If anyone moors in Islington I can give you a recommendation, it's called the lucky chip and is in walking distance of canal, it's in a rather noisy pub which I have not been in, they started out in a van in a market close to my house, got voted as best burgers in UK and they deserved it. They have expanded and now have 4 outlets, our nearest and there biggest nowhere near a canal. But the burgers are supreme none of this pile it high just good food and not silly on prices, as long as you don't mind polystyrene cartons for burgers and chips in plastic bowls, sounds gross but i love it there (and I would not touch a mc donalds with a barge pole) Mart
  2. We collected the boat from Napton, found out at end of holiday a lovely canal-side pub, such is life. As for London, we can get pie and mash and a glass of squash for under a fiver, but that is very rare, our local so called cafe gives you a bill in excess of £20 just for breakfast and a wake up drink. It's getting stupid here, I used to eat out regular, but the prices are getting ridiculous, and you find the quality of food goes downhill once they are open a while. such is life Mart
  3. As for gastropubs, when we picked up our rental narrowboat we were too early, so asked where we could grab a bit of lunch, directed to a pub at end of lane, on arrival was obvious just been converted into a gastropub, two rolls and two glasses of wine cost £27, thats more than we pay in London. Cannot see that lasting long when there are still some lovely traditional pubs in the country. Also why should I pay for there conversion ?? Mart
  4. Also thanks to everyone for the sensible awnsers, and the funny ones. Do not feel like a victim of crime I never commited Mart Could have been, but still tasted nice Mart
  5. Ok thanks for the above, maybe we picked the wrong night, and not knowing a town the wrong places. As for non english speakers that accounts for about %90 of my customers so no problems there, also must add I live in East London, so I either speak bengali or use a posh accent. Proper cider will not go into a battery, the lumps of apple and god knows whatelse will not fit through the holes, we were at a cider farm in Dorset and the added ingrediant was a lump of pork during brewing, but the cider was good. Mart
  6. Thanks folks, from what seemed an assult on me, now we have serious discusion on beer, tells a lot about us boaters lol, keep the forum going, any information about good cider be appreciated (not the fizzy stuff) Mart
  7. I agree, where we live have to walk quite a way to what we call our local, lucky it's split resturant on one side (which is great), then bar on the other, offers brilliant ales and Belgium beer, other than that we have nothing in so called trendy east london
  8. Sounds like my old local, if you asked for food you were looked on as if you were something the cat dragged in, but when it hit it's low point just before being sold (now a hated gastropub), the landlord happily sold crisps to parents, the kids would pour them on the floor and jump up and down on them making a real mess, the parents and landlord never passed comment. The only good thing about the place was I met my now fiancee and one night stopping for an early drink found it completly empty, shouted up to the accomodation above no reply, so pulled myself a drink and left money on counter, 15 minutes later landlady turned up, was horrified I was in bar in a pub that was unocupied, she had gone out and forgot to lock the door, lucky i'm honest, could have had a field day otherwise lol.
  9. Sorry not been able to reply for several weeks due to medical problem stopping me using PC. In reply to above comments, after so many years on the Thames everybody I know uses an anchor chain in Windsor, I suffered a not so serious incident, but a group of lads peeing onto your boat not so nice. Reading the east side where tescos is is not so bad if you can tolerate the university students (no problems), it's the west side to look out for, I know the town well and would never moor there, worse is the Oxford road, sounds nice but you can get any substance you like there, I never moor the boat or park the car near there. This is advice and does not need replies
  10. Your right, but when only resturants we could find were indian, and we was not in mood for a curry, we wanted a good brew and some nice food. Mart
  11. Sorry cannot comment as that night I was teatotal, but they run the beer halll at the Crick inland waterways show and can say the cider was gorgeous. Mart
  12. Whilst on subject of pubs, can I reccomend one, the wheatsheaf in Crick Leics, we had an excellent meal, very cheap prices and the locals were really nice. Mart
  13. I do not disagree with that, hate gasropubs where you are paying for the conversion, but a bit of hot food not too much to ask for, pie and chips or sausage and mash, not the end of the world and not so hard to produce lol. Mart
  14. Well I am from East London same as Alf
  15. Thank you for that, and you are right. We had 13 great nights and one bad one, but it seems putting a warning of the bad night on here causes outrage, heyho some people ! Mart
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