Ping .......Cheltenham Inhabitants

Mrs Boxer and I will be spending next weekend in Cheltenham. Can
anybody recommend any good pubs in the centre of the town? Looking for
decent beer and reasonably priced pub food, given that everything in
Cheltenham is a little pricey anyway!

Boxerboy

 

Nam is pricey? You must be from Norf.

 

Somewhere in Cheltenham that isn't full of pissed cunts at the weekend? The
last time I went to Nam on a Friday night was quite an unpleasant
experience. YMMV of course

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Malc

Rusted and ropy.
Dog-eared old copy.
Vintage and classic,
or just plain Jurassic:
all words to describe me.

 

On Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:17:04 +0000, Paul Corfield

Franco's... great place. I did think he was retiring but it still
seems to be there.

However, if you want a pub, in the town centre you may as well just go
to Wetherspoons. At least you know what you're getting there. The
best pubs to eat at (IMO) are outside of Cheltenham.

 

We found a couple last year, but I'm afraid I have no recollection of
where or what they were called

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Yep Norf Worcestershire, but then Nige would call it the soft
sarf...its all relative.

Where I live is cheap, when TOG comes here he always has 3 pints in
the village pub, he claims at our prices the third one is free!

Just looking for the inside track on where to go.

Boxerboy

 

ITYM Birmingham, don't try to disguise it.

 

Nope was born in Brum, still work there but live just north of
Kidderminster now.

Boxerboy

 

TA will give them a go.

Boxerboy

 

You were there when we had our weekend out? You should have come over
and said hello.

Why are you calling it Nam btw? Locals might disagree with me but I'm
sitting here thinking it's making you look something of a ****.

 

Because I can't be arsed to type the full name out. It's also part of a
joke.

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Malc

Rusted and ropy.
Dog-eared old copy.
Vintage and classic,
or just plain Jurassic:
all words to describe me.

 

.... I love the smell of Cheltenham Ladies College in the morning.

 

Sadly, pubs are going the way of shops, with homogenisation. Every large
town/city seems to have a Yates, Walkabout, Lloyds etc.

I've been in Giannis. The food was pretty decent. The fuckers did try to
charge us for the caraffe of red wine the waiter knocked over.

Seems I'm out of date as far as pubs go. I was going to recommend the
Suffolk Arms on the A40 outer ring road, as a freindly place. Seems it no
longer sports a rainbow flag over the door.

Here's the CAMRA list, if real ale is your thing
http://www.gloucestershirecamra.org.uk/pubs/raig/CHELTENH.HTM
Seems to be plenty of choice.

 

And that's something new in the last 15 years? You left out the
ubiquitous Wetherspoons. Most towns used to have an Edwards too, but the
pubcos change the brand names every so often.

The AA Pub Guide has never let me down.

Except when I was up near Ipswich and looking for somewhere for Sunday
lunch. Picked a likely candidate out of the two-year-old book I had in
the car and V phoned to book a table.

Felt a bit awkward when a groggy voice answered the phone. The landlord.
Or, rather, ex-landlord, probably sleeping off a hangover to dull the
pain of his existence, the pub having been closed down by the brewery a
couple of months previously and him being unemployed.

Sorry about that, fella. I've got a new copy of the book now.

 

Another vote for both of those places from me. For Chinese, The Mayflower
has always been very good.

 

Well, Lloyds are Wetherspoons owned and the inner cheapskate in me likes
Wetherspoons. Nothing like having a breakfast bloomer washed down with a
couple of pints of Old Thumper. Makes visiting the sprog in Portsmouth
bearable.

 

True on all counts but I thought the OP wanted to know about pubs?