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Post by bartonboy11 on Jan 12, 2019 22:04:50 GMT
Flying pig next to the old bus station used to be Tolly. Can't recall what it was called back then. I think it was The Crown when I started working in cambridge in 1977.
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Post by bartonboy11 on Jan 12, 2019 22:08:47 GMT
Also had the Osborne Arms next door which, I believe, was a Whitbread boozer but I could be confusing the two (old age setting in I'm afraid !). š
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Post by sheffyoos on Jan 12, 2019 22:14:50 GMT
Also had the Osborne Arms next door which, I believe, was a Whitbread boozer but I could be confusing the two (old age setting in I'm afraid !). š[/ Yes, there were 2 pubs next door to each other. Totally forgot about the Osborne Arms. My old man used The Earl of Derby. Cherry Hinton Boys.
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Post by bartonboy11 on Jan 12, 2019 22:33:52 GMT
I also used to drink in there at lunchtimes when I worked at Brooklands Avenue. I remember the bar billiards table well ! š
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Post by cambcam on Jan 19, 2019 13:55:28 GMT
The food is very good at the Royal Standard although I'm still a little uncomfortable with the layout, feels like they could have made more with the space available when they did the refurb, over three years ago now... Ok, so pubs, beer, food. When is a pub no longer a pub? Take this scenario: Last night wandered into the Royal Standard about 7.30 for a quick beer en route to eat at Prana. Roughly half the tables were occupied with diners and ALL the remaining empty tables had āReserved from 7.30 (/7.45 etc)ā There was one bar stool. I asked if there was another bar stool - āNo.ā was the answer. So essentially, having a beer in the Royal Standard at 7.30 on a Friday evening would mean standing at the bar like a couple of spare parts in a half empty pub, or chancing your arm at a table like a couple of naughty school kids waiting to be booted off by the diners. Sod that, so headed up to the Petersfield. Thing is, that has happened before at the Standard and thereās no sense of responsibility or loyalty to drinkers. The tables are for diners and once theyāre booked, thatās it. Drinkers are very much second class citizens in that place.
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Post by nutsaboutamber on Jan 20, 2019 7:45:57 GMT
Which is wrong. The Wrestlers can be a bit like that although to be fair it has enough history as a boozer to accommodate a few of the locals who donāt necessarily want to stuff themselves with pud Thai(as good as it is).
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Post by cambcam on Jan 28, 2019 14:09:18 GMT
No idea if this is common knowledge or not, but was checking something out and was surprised to stumble upon this: www.everardcole.co.uk/find-a-property/property.php?id=356Letās hope the new owners go with āif it aināt broke, donāt fix itā. Got to be of some concern to the aficionados.
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Post by nutsaboutamber on Jan 28, 2019 19:54:40 GMT
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Post by scooterboy on Jan 30, 2019 19:45:37 GMT
Had a couple of pints of Batemans XB in the Old Bull Royston recently. went down a treat sitting by the log fire with my dogs.
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Post by Mark Petersā Bonce of Power on Feb 7, 2019 10:16:48 GMT
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Post by cambcam on Feb 7, 2019 12:37:52 GMT
Funnily enough was in there last night. Just popped in for a couple of early evening drinks and some pub food. The Hopbine just does that so, so well. The beer is excellent and varied, and the food is just the way honest pub food should be. Really good value too. Spoke to a couple of the staff briefly, thanked them and wished them all the best. Iāll miss that place. Edit: Come to think of it, itās hard to believe that is a GK pub, itās more like a Freehouse than some Freehouses. Had a lovely pint of Carpenterās Cask by Crafty, and something else whose name I donāt recall at the moment. If GK IPA and Abbot were on I certainly didnt see them (not that I looked too hard)
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Post by sheffyoos on Feb 7, 2019 20:44:11 GMT
Kingston Arms is a strange one on that list. One of my port of calls pre-match. Can't think of any other Cambridge pubs with 2 open fires in the same bar.
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Post by ambernuts on Feb 7, 2019 22:51:11 GMT
Big shame that, but not a surprise given the restrictions imposed by the Landlady, who sounds like a right piece of work. Iāll make an effort to get there in the next couple weeks.
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Post by terryd on Feb 8, 2019 13:31:07 GMT
As a frequent patron of the Hopbine, this is really sad news.
An excellent pub.
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Post by cambcam on Feb 8, 2019 16:55:00 GMT
Thinking about this, in the early ā90ās for a short while I lived less than 50 yards away in the house next to the dentists on New Square. I donāt think I ever went in the place because unless Iām mistaken, at that time it was a bit of a stereotypical GK sh*thole. Went in for convenience after the Cambridge half marathon about 5 years ago and fell in love with the place. What a turnaround.
That then got me thinking further - I reckon the first time I went in there was 1987. My memory might be playing tricks but I seem to recall the seated area at the back was completely different - had a high ceiling, maybe even another floor, balcony/railings?? Plants and garden type furniture? I donāt know, might be way off the mark but itās bugging me. That description makes me think of Old Orleans in Mill Lane and maybe thatās where that image comes from, but something is bugging me about the Hopbine and at the risk of no one knowing what Iām going on about, thought Iād throw it out there?
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