Friday/Saturday Night Pubs in the 70s/80s

[Parson Henry]

My mates and I used to go out regularly in Brighton on a Friday and Saturday night.

Meet at the Volunteer.

On to Shades (Pavilion tavern); then

The Sussex or Druids Head;

Possibly the Deryck Carver;

Choice of Henekeys or Swifts;

Lastly the 'Coconut/Sherrys/Suite or Busbys; or

Al Fornos or Al Duomos for a Pizza.

Did anyone have a similar route for their pubcrawls?

Stories or anecdotes welcome.

 

[3gulls]

You should have come in The Bosun, or later (after we all got banned) The Lamb and Flag. Great pre-/post- match times!

 

[Parson Henry]

You should have come in The Bosun, or later (after we all got banned) The Lamb and Flag. Great pre-/post- match times!

I thought most people went in there for a beer or a fight!!!

 

[3gulls]

I thought most people went in there for a beer or a fight!!!

 

[aftershavedave]

Al Fornos or Al Duomos for a Pizza.

incredibly, looking back now, they were about the only choice in central brighton! choys and english's but not much else...

 

[Lush]

Anyone remember Le Grandgousier restaurant in Brighton? You got about 6 courses on a set menu! Although I seem to remember one of them was raw vegetables from a basket.

I also remember an American burger restaurant that we walked all the way to Kemp Town for.

 

[aftershavedave]

Anyone remember Le Grandgousier restaurant in Brighton? You got about 6 courses on a set menu! Although I seem to remember one of them was raw vegetables from a basket.

I also remember an American burger restaurant that we walked all the way to Kemp Town for.

grandgousier was near norfolk square, £12.95 for 6 courses indeed. went bust i think.

american burger bar was samsons still there i think....

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Brighton Rock down west street the Spotted Dog !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Toppers night club the restoration

 

[Parson Henry]

Anyone remember Le Grandgousier restaurant in Brighton? You got about 6 courses on a set menu! Although I seem to remember one of them was raw vegetables from a basket.

I also remember an American burger restaurant that we walked all the way to Kemp Town for.

Lush that was the forerunner of the Uncle sams franchise..ir was called Samsons!!!

BTW have we drifted from the main point of the thread!!

 

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

Long man of Wilmington
Shades(pavillion tavern)
Golden Fleece
The Druids
The pump House
The Sea house
Busbys
Sphynx Kebab
Home.
happy days

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Shades was our long-standing favourite.

 

[Gwylan]

Nobles Bar
King and Queen
Basketmakers
Eagle

 

[The Wookiee]

Did anybody ever go in The Boulevard which was a bar in the Odeon cinema in the mid to late '80s?

Or The Argyle which is now Squid and Starfish?

The Argyle was basically a pub with a dowstairs disco which was open til 2am

 

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

Forgot that one.

 

[Dave the OAP]

william the 1V

on to Shades

On To Deryk carver

Heneckies

Off to King and Queen

Try to get into Mr K's or what ever it was called

Drop iff missus at her home in Lower Bevendean

Off home to patcham a happy if enebriated bunny

 

[Parson Henry]

william the 1V

on to Shades

On To Deryk carver

Heneckies

Off to King and Queen

Try to get into Mr K's or what ever it was called

Drop iff missus at her home in Lower Bevendean

Off home to patcham a happy if enebriated bunny

Blimey DTG we must have jostled with each other to get a round in at Shades...always foundf K&Q to be a damp squib on a Friday night!!!

 

[Fourteenth Eye]

Did anybody ever go in The Boulevard which was a bar in the Odeon cinema in the mid to late '80s?

Or The Argyle which is now Squid and Starfish?

The Argyle was basically a pub with a dowstairs disco which was open til 2am

Christ on a bike the Boulevard god i'd forgotten about that place...you used be able to get straight into top rank from there

the frock & jacket was always pretty cool

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Kick off in the Railway Tavern portslade on into town by train
stopping off at the nightingale then William Tell/Pig in Paradise
then onto Brighton Rock, swifts then Q for the Suite or Busbys/Orianas always dowwning a sraight vodka double before heading to a club ........... dont ask me why, circa 1986/1987

 

[Man of Harveys]

Blimey, with the amount of people drinking in Shades, if you were in there in the summers of 1989 and 1990, there's a good chance I might have served you. It was a brilliant place to work: nice other people behind the bar and, as for chatting up ladies, there was nowhere better.

Mind you, I now weigh about twice what I weighed back then...
Although I bet the rest you do as well!

 

[zefarelly]

the William Tell, Sat 8pm, then down west street and left into Boyces Street, cant remember the pub name, then a few others in the lanes, usually the Druids, then either Sister Rays or The Gloucester, then walk/taxi/nick a bike back to Shoreham