http://www.obyto.co.uk Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:54:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://www.obyto.co.uk/pubs/royal-oak-tabard-st http://www.obyto.co.uk/pubs/royal-oak-tabard-st#comments Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:40:03 +0000 admin http://www.obyto.co.uk/?p=345 In a classic cheek-by-jowl corner of south London, where the shiny nests of polished Bermondseers nudge up against humble estatery, is this place, a confusing, historic collision of capital pub life. The exterior suggests a propah cockney sweat lodge, with genteel privacy curtains to hide the shifty boat races of those inside. Matt brown tiling [...]]]> http://www.obyto.co.uk/pubs/royal-oak-tabard-st/feed 0 http://www.obyto.co.uk/pubs/the-clifton-bristol http://www.obyto.co.uk/pubs/the-clifton-bristol#comments Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:30:05 +0000 admin http://www.obyto.co.uk/?p=337 A great thing about Bristol is that this pub is this pub. Opposite the most iconic street in Bristol – the joyfully grand Royal York Crescent, the longest terrace in Europe – and right in the heart of what we’re legally bound to call ‘Clifton Village’, this place could be going in all kinds of directions. [...]]]> http://www.obyto.co.uk/pubs/the-clifton-bristol/feed 0 http://www.obyto.co.uk/walks/inn-on-the-quay-spotted-cow-poole http://www.obyto.co.uk/walks/inn-on-the-quay-spotted-cow-poole#comments Thu, 06 May 2010 15:28:23 +0000 admin http://www.obyto.co.uk/?p=320 To Poole, then – just down the road from Sandbanks, the bewjewelled teardrop in the Bournemouth Bay. People spend millions in order to live there. The surrounding areas must be nice, too. Poole preconceptions: gentility-on-sea, abutting onto mossy, comforting estuarial waters. Hanging baskets outside Georgian terraces, gulls whickering overhead. Blue rinses, quiet tedium, the odd delicafe, [...]]]> http://www.obyto.co.uk/walks/inn-on-the-quay-spotted-cow-poole/feed 0 http://www.obyto.co.uk/pubs/old-duke-bristol http://www.obyto.co.uk/pubs/old-duke-bristol#comments Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:51:10 +0000 admin http://www.obyto.co.uk/?p=307 Hilarity, tabs and music played by bands called 'Cass Casswell's Monster Trio' and such like. And heroic outside drinking in the summer months. Like. ]]> http://www.obyto.co.uk/pubs/old-duke-bristol/feed 0 http://www.obyto.co.uk/pubs/uk-pubs/kensington-arms-redland-bristol http://www.obyto.co.uk/pubs/uk-pubs/kensington-arms-redland-bristol#comments Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:27:47 +0000 admin http://www.obyto.co.uk/?p=297 I don't want to confuse these constructions with life's eternal laws, so let's just say the Kenny is a relatively confusing pub. Cracking bacon sandwiches, mind. ]]> http://www.obyto.co.uk/pubs/uk-pubs/kensington-arms-redland-bristol/feed 1 http://www.obyto.co.uk/pubs/uk-pubs/butcher%e2%80%99s-arms-sheepscombe http://www.obyto.co.uk/pubs/uk-pubs/butcher%e2%80%99s-arms-sheepscombe#comments Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:24:42 +0000 admin http://www.obyto.co.uk/?p=295 Out in those special wilds of the Cotswolds, the wintry fields lie dun and bleak, while the pedestrian cowers on splattered verges as executive Jags roll by on their way to millionaires’ farmhouses. The villages that dot this muddy quilt are almost uniformly gorgeous, either nestling snugly in the sharp wooded clefts in the [...]]]> http://www.obyto.co.uk/pubs/uk-pubs/butcher%e2%80%99s-arms-sheepscombe/feed 0 http://www.obyto.co.uk/pubs/uk-pubs/the-connaught-hove http://www.obyto.co.uk/pubs/uk-pubs/the-connaught-hove#comments Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:06:25 +0000 admin http://www.obyto.co.uk/?p=291 The price of a beer brings me out in hives, in Hove. Or something. ]]> http://www.obyto.co.uk/pubs/uk-pubs/the-connaught-hove/feed 0 http://www.obyto.co.uk/pubs/uk-pubs/the-spotted-cow-bristol http://www.obyto.co.uk/pubs/uk-pubs/the-spotted-cow-bristol#comments Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:07:08 +0000 admin http://www.obyto.co.uk/wordpress/?p=85 A one-size-fits-all drinking den that any inner-city suburb would be almost proud of having on its doorstep. ]]> http://www.obyto.co.uk/pubs/uk-pubs/the-spotted-cow-bristol/feed 0 http://www.obyto.co.uk/pubs/uk-pubs/the-royal-navy-volunteer http://www.obyto.co.uk/pubs/uk-pubs/the-royal-navy-volunteer#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:45:35 +0000 admin http://www.obyto.co.uk/wordpress/?p=81 An establishment for chaps, with no horsing around please. ]]> http://www.obyto.co.uk/pubs/uk-pubs/the-royal-navy-volunteer/feed 0 http://www.obyto.co.uk/pubs/uk-pubs/nova-scotia-hotwells http://www.obyto.co.uk/pubs/uk-pubs/nova-scotia-hotwells#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:41:01 +0000 admin http://www.obyto.co.uk/wordpress/?p=78 A dirty, soulful old shitpit of a boozer, and all the more wonderful for it. ]]> http://www.obyto.co.uk/pubs/uk-pubs/nova-scotia-hotwells/feed 0