Friday, November 18, 2011
No. 114 The Queen Hotel
Visited on 17/11/11. I’m not really sure what phrase best describes this rabbit warren of a Victorian hotel opposite Chester station - ‘buffed up faded grandeur’ maybe. In other words, it's been recently renovated but not to the highest of standards. It’s functional I guess. Certainly not dilapidated, but far from luxurious. And it retains a certain charm I suppose. ‘Darwin’s Waiting Room’ is the name of the public bar and real ale is served – on this occasion Weetwood Cheshire Cat and Eastgate ale. Each was lifeless and slightly tainted - typical traits of ale that's been hanging around too long I'm afraid. They were charging four English pounds per imperial bleedin’ pint of each an' all. That’s expense account pricing I reckon. Don’t think any locals drink here. Just corporate types, tourists, race-goers, wedding guests, bloggers, loggers and doggers.
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Looks like you guys are coming to (if not arrived at already ?) the end of the road for the CBP then ?
ReplyDeleteI mean, 3 hotel bars. Hardly pubs really ? What next ? Offies ?
Now there's an idea. 'Bargain Booze' beware !
ReplyDeleteMe and a mate have started doing something similar in Liverpool. Hop on the chuffer maybe once every couple of months. We're trying to go to pubs that we're not been to before, but there are hundreds. Even doing a Leo Sayer it's going to take some time !
ReplyDeleteThe population of Liverpool is roughly 4 times that of Chester. On that basis, there are likely to be nearly 500 pubs. If it's taken us a year to do the Chester ones by going out once a week and you're only going over there once every 2 months, it will take you 32 years. In that time a lot are likely to close though - so I reckon 25 years is a close estimate. Good luck.
ReplyDeleteWe could be dead by then !! Imagine the headlines:
ReplyDelete"Two pensioners die on 25 year pub crawl !"
Decent way to go though.
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