[Drinking] Pub deal breakers (what can you not tolerate in a boozer?).

[Nibble]

Inspired by the worst pubs polls: What if you see it or experience it in a pub makes you leave and swear off that pub?

For me it's rude, inattentive bar staff. I have walked out of the Open House several times for that very reason. You?

 

[Creaky]

Children

 

[Camicus]

Children its a juicer not a ****ing crèche

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Any pub that has a Harvester sign outside.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Sky TV. Totally destroys a pub atmosphere and fills it up with geezers.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Overly loud music (to the point that a conversation is not possible)

 

[Virgo's Haircut]

A lack of real ales.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Overly loud music (to the point that a conversation is not possible)

Pardon?

 

[bhafc4eva]

Too many Real Ales, turns the place into a hide away for scruffy people with beards.

 

[Nibble]

All good points. Overly elaborate pub menus where the chef thinks he's in some 5 * restaurant. What's the matter with a nicely made cottage pie and solid chips?

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Bright, exposed light bulbs.

 

[keaton]

Lack of decent ales
Too loud music
No seats (i'm getting old)

 

[Pevenseagull]

normally

Horse Racing
Carpet
Cardboard stars with the price of house doubles attached to 1.5 litre bottles of cheap spirit dispatched from optics
'Funny' Signs

HOWEVER, The Bow Street Runner contravenes all of the above and is a cracking little pub

so I will go with:

Evidence that the lines have not been cleaned
Flat roofs
Bar staff text messaging behind the bar ........ particularly when they complete their text when service is required
Being given a short with mixer in a half pint glass rather than a 12oz highball
Being given a short with a mixer with a parlous quantity of ice (unless specifically requested to be served thus)

I could continue

 

[happypig]

Loud music.
Dogs.
Teenagers.
Pool tables.
Bar stools (so you cannot get to the bar because of all the people sat at it).
Gourmet dining (these are restaurants masquerading as pubs)
Snobby landlords who serve their friends first (Yew Tree, Arlington anyone?)
Crying babies (it's a pub not a f@@king nursery)
Morris dancers
Karaoke

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

All good points. Overly elaborate pub menus where the chef thinks he's in some 5 * restaurant. What's the matter with a nicely made cottage pie and solid chips?

I went in a pub, once, and ordered a jacket potato. They asked me if I would like chips with it.

 

[urbanjim]

Barflys and actual bar flys.
First one - where you actually have to order, pay and take your drink over someones shoulder. Make the bar area a box junction during certain periods to ease congestion at the bar.
The second one are those very small flies which you seem unable to hit without risk of clearing out the table. Usually found in old man pubs with little ventilation.

 

[keaton]

All good points. Overly elaborate pub menus where the chef thinks he's in some 5 * restaurant. What's the matter with a nicely made cottage pie and solid chips?

You have chips with cottage pie?

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Flat roofs

Great call.

ALWAYS avoid a pub with a flat roof.

 

[happypig]

normally
Flat roofs

Good shout.

 

[Nibble]

You have chips with cottage pie?

Oh yes. If the pie is nice and moist and when you have run out of mash topping they have been soaking in the mince gravy for 10 mins? It's heaven. Peas too.