The Ship and Mitre, 113 Dale Street, Liverpool

The Ship and Mitre is primarily a pub selling British real ale and beers from around the world.  Expect to find 10 or more real British beers available as well as draft and bottled imported beers.  Beers are well kept by people who know what they are doing so the pub is worth a visit for the beer alone, even though it is a bit out of the way for many people.

 

I visited this pub last Sunday while staying with a friend.  we had a few beers and a bite to eat!

 

Food is served at lunch times.  the pub specialises in home made burgers and there are also a few starters and things such as chilli that can be served with bread, rice, salad or wraps.  The burgers were, however, the most interesting part of the menu.

 

Often with different flavoured burgers you just get a beef burger with different toppings. Here the burgers were home made and the flavourings were mixed in with the beef before it was cooked.  I was with 3 other people.  2 of us had beef burger with coriander and chilli and the other 2, including me, had a Moroccan lamb burger with apricots.

 

These burgers contained decent quality mince meat that was well flavoured.  they came in a bread bun and were served with chips that I think were freshly made rather than frozen.  I wanted a soup starter but there was none left so the chef sorted us out some spicy prawns with good thick hot chilli sauce instead.

 

The range of beers served in the Ship and Mitre is well known in Liverpool and this alone makes it well worth a visit.  the time during which food is served is quite limited at just 12:00 to 2:30 each day but prices are very fair at about £6 for the burger with chips.  I regard this as primarily a food blog but I assure readers that the Ship and Mitre is really worth visiting for its beers.  I had a couple of pints of TopBank Bowltown and it was kept faultlessly.

 

Staff were generally helpful though wan person was serving food in 2 bars which meant service was a bit slow.  this is a proper pub with a carpeted lounge bit and what would have been the public bar in the past.  I think that prices are the same in all parts of the pub now however.  I assume that in times when they know it will be busy they have the staff to cope.

 

Not surprisingly, as it is a pub, there was no problem with guide dogs.

 

I give this pub 7.5 out of 10.  the ale is great and varied, it would be good though if they served food for a few more hours each day.

Graham Page
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the Well House, 16 -17 Cathedral Yard, Exeter EX1 1HB

I visited this pub last month with 2 friends to try out the Sunday Roast.

 

This is quite a famous pub near the Cathedral in central Exeter and so I expected it to be rather expensive.  In fact, a roast dinner was £5.99 which is quite reasonable.  the portion was quite acceptable rather than being really generous, but considering that for this price you also get a soup of the day with bread you really can't complain.  I had Lamb and I would say the meat was particularly good.  It was thick, tender and really tasty.  vegetables were not overdone though I would have liked a few more of them as they were really nice.  MangeTout and carrots were among themm.  The soup was curried vegetable which was an unusual and quite welcome choice.  I may well eat here again and would certainly give it 6.5 out of 10 for the food I have tried given its price.  I would not have minded paying a couple of pounds more and getting a larger meal however.

 

 

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Banger Brothers, The Piazza, Euston Station

I first visited this sausage shop wile travelling home from    euston station after working nearby.
Since then, another branch has opened up at London Bridge station.  banger brothers is a small stall located on the piazza just outside the station.
Lets cut the pretentious crap, its the place where people gather for a quick fag before getting their trains.
I was offered a choice of sausages served in a bun and wile for testing purposes I should perhaps have gone for the basic British sausage, I actually chose the polish smoky sausage instead.
The sausage was of high quality with a really smokie flavour and it came with crispy shallots and pickles.
At 3 pounds 95 its not cheap but I would rather pay that 4 a really good sausage than 2 pounds 50 for something of poor quality.  Since then I have also tried the Chorizo sausage which I also liked and the British sausage which impressed me somewhat less.  It tasted a bit spongy and was no better than Sainsbury butchers choice!

 

Staff were reasonably helpful though not particularly enthusiastic.
I must say I am really looking forward to trying the other kinds of sausage available at this store as well as the bacon. This is a really welcome addition to the food on offer at euston station. For more info including the menu visit http://www.banger-brothers.co.uk
I hope this stall keeps up the quality and proves to be successful. I give it 7out of 10.

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