The Barton's Arms

[cdbearsfan]

YAAAAAASSS!!!

[Drummond]

Niiiiiiiice

[ASHTONVILLA]

Sports Direct always smells of BO, like they forbid their staff from wearing any deordorant whatsoever.

Yesterday. I had to brave the Sports Direct shopping "experience" to get something for school.  My feeling is always that the staff must have failed every other job interview they've attended before Mike Ashley welcomed them with open arms.  Either uncommunicative or programmed to bark at customers, no detailed grasp of the store inventory let alone specific product knowledge and conspicuous by their absence when there's a Saturday afternoon queue at the tills.

Any rejects from the sports direct interview process end up working the Witton upper concourse bars

Or Harvester in Cheltenham where we had the misfortune to eat today.  Terrible service from start to finish.

Think I will stick to my policy of eating at places in the Michelin guide. Life is too short for questionable food.

[Percy McCarthy]

Dave Williams, former co-owner of the Barton's Arms, reports that it will reopen in August, date tbc, with Thai food and Oakham Ales

Great news.

[frank]

It seems that the Oakham Brewery are still involved - the last tenants handed the lease back to them. So we can hope that we may be getting our pub back, which many of us doubted.

[dave.woodhall]

That's good news.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

Oakham Brewery does not "own" The Barton's, but their CEO, under a totally different (property?) company, partly does.
It makes sense, on a personal level, to keep the two completely separate businesses together, but they are completely separate.

[Pete3206]

Great

[adrenachrome]

Don't be surprised if Chris Heck jumps in and offers a Newtown package combining Thai food and ales with a ferry service to areas of the ground with velvet ropes and lanyards.

[ChicagoLion]

Great news, see you there soon.

[Nev]

Another reason to spend elsewhere than in the ground itself.

Take that Heck!

[Nunkin1965]

That's a good start to the day!

[Luffbralion]

Fantastic news. Can't wait to re-instate the pre match ritual of a pint or two in the Bartons Arms.
Thanks for posting this, Frank. Please give us updated. Hopefully, we can be back there for Arsenal.

[dekko]

Fantastic

[eamonn]

Dave Williams, former co-owner of the Barton's Arms, reports that it will reopen in August, date tbc, with Thai food and Oakham Ales

Villaaa! Villaaa!, Villlaaa! (repeat to fade)