[Drinking] Pub suggestions please

[Not Andy Naylor]

A group of friends of mine are looking for a pub where they can have a reasonably quiet chat on Friday evenings. They keep being forced out of places by increasingly loud music and my suggestions that they should simply turn their hearing aids up fall on deaf ears (obviously).

Quality of beers relatively unimportant, convenient parking an advantage, Brighton and Hove preferred. I assured them that NSC would come up with a whole load of possible venues.

 

[WATFORD zero]

East Stand Upper - Sunday afternoon ?

 

[el punal]

East Stand Upper - Sunday afternoon ?

Do you mind not writing so loudly?

 

[theboybilly]

Leave the car and get a train to Hove Station. The excellent Watchmakers Arms is a short walk down from there. Wolfie's chippy is close by if you get a bit peckish.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

East Stand Upper - Sunday afternoon ?

A tad difficult trying to access it on a Friday evening don't you think? Although perhaps if you asked Sky nicely?

 

[BensGrandad]

Everytime we have driven past The Albion at Fishersgate it has looked empty with about 3 people in it and I amsure there must be many similar in Brighton and Hove with pubs struggling for trade.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Everytime we have driven past The Albion at Fishersgate it has looked empty with about 3 people in it and I amsure there must be many similar in Brighton and Hove with pubs struggling for trade.

Wasn't there also an Abion in Hove until not so long ago? Church Road or Blatchington Road maybe? Remember going in there with a group of fellow fans back in the Goldstone days.

 

[LamieRobertson]

East Stand Upper - Sunday afternoon ?

.....it really isn't that quiet.....ok it can be ..but not moi!

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Leave the car and get a train to Hove Station. The excellent Watchmakers Arms is a short walk down from there. Wolfie's chippy is close by if you get a bit peckish.

If they want parking, the Hove station car park is fairly reasonable.

 

[Jesus Gul]

A group of friends of mine are looking for a pub where they can have a reasonably quiet chat on Friday evenings. They keep being forced out of places by increasingly loud music and my suggestions that they should simply turn their hearing aids up fall on deaf ears (obviously).

Quality of beers relatively unimportant, convenient parking an advantage, Brighton and Hove preferred. I assured them that NSC would come up with a whole load of possible venues.

The Station Hotel at Preston Park Station is my recommendation

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

Wasn't there also an Abion in Hove until not so long ago? Church Road or Blatchington Road maybe? Remember going in there with a group of fellow fans back in the Goldstone days.

Wasn't that where a certain former Albion midfield player and coach had a frank exchange of views with a German doctor?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Crown & Anchor, Preston Park

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Quality of beers relatively unimportant,

What sort of friends are they ................

 

[Barry Izbak]

The Watchmakers would be absolutely ideal.
Right outside Hove Station. Number 7 bus and car park.
Run by Albion fans.
The beer quality is excellent
Bookshelves fascinating, including a copy of Build a Bonfire, just lacking a copy of Pulp Football......

 

[Postman Pat]

The Swan, car park and unlikely to have loud music.
Miller and Carter in patcham still has a bar
The sportsman?
The Nevil?
The Hikers (now Ruby) is usually pretty quiet if there is nothing going on.

 

[pearl]

The Swan, car park and unlikely to have loud music.
Miller and Carter in patcham still has a bar
The sportsman?
The Nevil?
The Hikers (now Ruby) is usually pretty quiet if there is nothing going on.

Isn't the Hikers (now Ruby) usually pretty shut if there is nothing going on (like a match)?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Wasn't there also an Abion in Hove until not so long ago? Church Road or Blatchington Road maybe? Remember going in there with a group of fellow fans back in the Goldstone days.

Yes. It was an old mans/soaks pub. Its now a horrific place chanelling “faded glamour” and “ bygone Bohemia” and full of scrubbed up coked up cocky estate/recruitment agents types in cheap suits and ill thought out sleeve tattoos.

 

[Jim D]

Yes. It was an old mans/soaks pub. Its now a horrific place chanelling “faded glamour” and “ bygone Bohemia” and full of scrubbed up coked up cocky estate/recruitment agents types in cheap suits and ill thought out sleeve tattoos.

Must be a really cheap suit if you can see the tattoo through it.

 

[Postman Pat]

Isn't the Hikers (now Ruby) usually pretty shut if there is nothing going on (like a match)?

Eh? It doesn't only open for football.

Unless you mean shit, in which case, yes it is, but meets the OP requirement of being quiet and able to park, and if beer quality is unimportant that's good too.

Indian takeaway next door is excellent though.

 

[smudge]

A group of friends of mine are looking for a pub where they can have a reasonably quiet chat on Friday evenings. They keep being forced out of places by increasingly loud music and my suggestions that they should simply turn their hearing aids up fall on deaf ears (obviously).

Quality of beers relatively unimportant, convenient parking an advantage, Brighton and Hove preferred. I assured them that NSC would come up with a whole load of possible venues.

Haven't been in for a while, but I'd recommend the Prestonville Arms in Hamilton Road. Proper pub.