New Posts For Thread: Pub refurbshttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/23398478/pub-refurbsIn the past 20 years, I've only seen one that I thought was an improvement (Tennent's bar, Glasgow). Most of the rest have been expensive disaters. Pubs that used to have two or three bars have had all the walls knocked in and been converted into opehow many refurbs in newham these dayshttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/23398478/pub-refurbs?post_id=550679513#550679513how many refurbs in newham these daysMon, 19 Dec 2016 16:17:29 -0600Smokers out the 2 glasses of Wine Mob in pubs as we knew them are finnishhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/23398478/pub-refurbs?post_id=550679285#550679285Smokers out the 2 glasses of Wine Mob in pubs as we knew them are finnishMon, 19 Dec 2016 15:53:42 -0600They've slowly realized they can make more money selling food than drink so 9/10 pubs have gone down the gastro route. A lot of bars you are treated as a second class citizen ordering just a drink and are given about 1/10th of the establishment to drhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/23398478/pub-refurbs?post_id=550678901#550678901They've slowly realized they can make more money selling food than drink so 9/10 pubs have gone down the gastro route. A lot of bars you are treated as a second class citizen ordering just a drink and are given about 1/10th of the establishment to drMon, 19 Dec 2016 15:20:02 -0600i stayed at a great country pub when back in the UK last week stone floor beams open fires good beer good food and looked after like I had been going in there for years and it was genuine hospitality the pub 8 bells in Bolney Sussexhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/23398478/pub-refurbs?post_id=550678459#550678459i stayed at a great country pub when back in the UK last week stone floor beams open fires good beer good food and looked after like I had been going in there for years and it was genuine hospitality the pub 8 bells in Bolney SussexMon, 19 Dec 2016 14:48:59 -0600luckily enough i live in a village with 2 pubs, and both of them are as close as you get these days to proper pubs. one of them doesn't even have a fkin bar, the beer is served out of the cellar. it will never change, and the brewerey will never sehttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/23398478/pub-refurbs?post_id=416786962#416786962luckily enough i live in a village with 2 pubs, and both of them are as close as you get these days to proper pubs. one of them doesn't even have a fkin bar, the beer is served out of the cellar. it will never change, and the brewerey will never seThu, 05 Nov 2009 14:55:11 -0600agreed.give it a few years and they will be paying again to recreate traditiona pubs that won't quite be the same.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/23398478/pub-refurbs?post_id=416786958#416786958agreed.give it a few years and they will be paying again to recreate traditiona pubs that won't quite be the same.Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:51:17 -0600I am only 31yo. i grew up in pubs, proper old style pubs, country pubs mainly. In my naivety I honestly thought they'd always be the same, on the contrary. They are universally sh.t now. Bistro pub w.ank holes full of w.ankers.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/23398478/pub-refurbs?post_id=416786950#416786950I am only 31yo. i grew up in pubs, proper old style pubs, country pubs mainly. In my naivety I honestly thought they'd always be the same, on the contrary. They are universally sh.t now. Bistro pub w.ank holes full of w.ankers.Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:49:44 -0600yes standard procedure.a good traditional pub always comes out lookingh like a mcdonalds after a refurbhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/23398478/pub-refurbs?post_id=416786946#416786946yes standard procedure.a good traditional pub always comes out lookingh like a mcdonalds after a refurbThu, 05 Nov 2009 14:46:59 -0600In the past 20 years, I've only seen one that I thought was an improvement (Tennent's bar, Glasgow). Most of the rest have been expensive disaters. Pubs that used to have two or three bars have had all the walls knocked in and been converted into opehttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/23398478/pub-refurbs?post_id=416786938#416786938In the past 20 years, I've only seen one that I thought was an improvement (Tennent's bar, Glasgow). Most of the rest have been expensive disaters. Pubs that used to have two or three bars have had all the walls knocked in and been converted into opeThu, 05 Nov 2009 14:43:22 -0600