Pub reviews...

[Sheikh Yerbouti]

Both for the same place... Made I larf...

I used to work here a while ago. It was a good mixed pub but after work hours [say, 5 til about 9pm] it was full of thick city pricks. No wonder there is a global financial crisis if people like that were in charge.
Once this guy bought 2 pints of John Smiths or something from me and complained about the price. He said, "That's more than the last time...last round it only came to £5.65!" So I pointed out, "How did two pints of the same beer come to an odd number of pennies? Was each pint two pounds eighty-two and a half pence last time?" He shut up after that and felt silly, having been corrected by a lowly barman.
Another time I saw a sleazy city slicker physically harrass one of my colleagues - a feisty Italian girl - and before I had the chance to intervene she'd already lamped him one. He didn't come back. Other clientele include coachloads of Germans/Japanese who come in for a half-pint of "real English ale" and then promptly leave again. Thankfully the tour leader paid for everything in one go, and they tend to be in the afternoon."

Went for a pint here on Saturday after a stroll in Borough Market, only to get refused entry at the gates because I had a pot of olives in my bag. It was 2 in the afternoon and I was sober as a nun, so I assumed the bouncer was pulling my leg. It didn't take long to realise that levity was not a failing of this power-tripping fool, and we were promptly sent on our way. If this is where drinking in London is headed I'm going back on the crack.

Pot of olives? Bit posh for our Lottie all that, I'da thought