Board Games In Pubs And Bars
Have you ever wanted to sip down your beers while thrashing your mates over a game of ping pong or a friendly round of sbnakes and ladders? Now, with the new wave of bars playing host to sporting activities and board games in bars and pubs, you can. Pubs are no longer just about exercising the liver.
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Trivia Dating
For decades, pubs have been places where people could meet. For some, its all about sharing drinks with friends, but for others, it’s a potential place to find love. Whether it’s a blind date or speed dating, pubs are a great way to start off a new romance over drinks. If those two forms of dating don’t flick your switch, how about trying the latest wave of hooking up with other singles. Welcome to trivia dating!
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Pub Markets – A New and Lovely Trend
Cheap drinks aren’t the only bargain you can pick up in pubs writes Nastasia Campanella. Each weekend in trendy parts around Sydney and Melbourne, independent market stalls have been selling competitive goods and services. There is a new trend emerging now, seeing our favourite pubs being transformed into shopping hubs. Popular pubs around our two most vibrant cities have been holding weekend markets once a month.
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What are the Most Popular Pub Names
If you’re like me and love to head to the pub at least 24 times a week, it will have occurred to you more than once that many pubs have the same name and almost all have a similar them to them. In case you haven’t realised, basically all pubs are named after either an animal, royalty or a nearby landmark/location.
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Tricks to Getting Served at the Pub Quicker
Nothing is worse than standing with a group of people at the bar, waiting to get served. The longer you wait, the longer your anger builds as you stare at the bar tender nonchalantly serving a customer here and there as if to say “I couldn’t care less if you get a beer or not, I’m too good for this job anyways.”
One thing that is unavoidable, no matter what pub you go to is the inevitable fact that a lot of bar tenders are pretty apathetic about their job. Whether it’s because they are working whilst everyone is having fun, it’s a second job they need to do because they don’t get payed enough or they are uni students who think that because they’ve completed ½ a business degree they are overqualified, the fact is you have to grit your teeth and bare it.
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Biggest Beer Drinkers in the World
When you walk into a pub, the scent of beer instantly hits you. I’ve often wondered who drinks the most beer on an international scale. Everyone knows how popular the beverage is with us Australian’s, but I’ve heard many a time that the best beers are made in Germany. I’m sure I wouldn’t be punished for thinking that German’s are the biggest beer consumers, I mean, does Oktoberfest happen over there for the sake of it? After a little research, I found that while beers produced in Germany might be some of the most popular, those German’s aren’t the biggest beer drinkers. Certainly, Germany is in the list of top five consumers, but they aren’t first like I initially thought. Want to know who is? Read on to find out.
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Why Pub Parma’s Are are So Damn Good
Forget a 12 course degustation menu… You can keep your fancy $40 a plate “fusion” cuisine… I’ll take a pub parmagiana any day of the week… (Well in fact I do). Pub food on the whole is pretty good. Always providing big servings of hearty food and combine this with a few of your favourite beers and you can’t go wrong. However you ask any genuine pub enthusiast what their favourite pub meal is, the reply will undoubtedly be the “chicken parmagiana.”
For some reason, this just hits the spot around the world, so we decided to investigate the reason why the chicken parma is so damn popular that it would be on par with the 3am kebab as one of the quintessential meals of pub culture.
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5 Reasons Why Pubs Are Better Then Nightclubs
No just to make clear, this article is not bagging nightclubs, rather, it is just proclaiming the brilliance of pubs in their entirety. As both a pub and nightclub lover, the appeal of nightclubs is by no means lost on me, however this is a pub website and as such, the majority of people reading this are here because of their love of pubs.
So after giving this article some extensive thought, here are the top 5 reasons why pubs make for a better night out then nightclubs. This is not to say you shouldn’t go to nightclubs… just keep this in mind before you forgo the pub.
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A Pub Lovers Tribute to the Guys Who Deliver the Kegs
Whilst bar tender, pub managers and bouncers all play their part in making pubs everywhere great, there are a group of individuals whose contribution to you big night consistently go unnoticed. These guys are their every morning at pubs around the world, at a time when chances are you are fast asleep in bed or possibly even still drinking at your favourite 24 hour pub.
If you are the latter, then you might get a chance to appreciate the work of the guys that deliver the kegs to your local pub.
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Top 3 Tips For Picking Up at Pubs
The days of pubs being only the domain of the boys is well and truly over, with many pubs frequented more by the fairer sex then the gents. In light of this, pubs are more than just a place for drinking, eating and watching sport but also a place to meet that someone special (or even just someone).
Undoubtedly you have tried to pickup at a pub before. Whether you were successful or not is a different a different matter altogether however the fact that you even tried is testament to the change in pub culture.
Pubs are unique due to the general lack of pretentiousness that is associated with bars and nightclubs. No high heels, no suits no ultra fancy clothing, at a pub, what you see is generally what you get. Pubs are also far more conducive to conversation, which is obviously an important part of getting to know someone.
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