Visit to the ACE Cafe, London

[Bikemad]

and some Gems and skinny licorice sticks for me please Max...........yum yum

[popelli]

[QUOTE=baptist;1130119752]

Don't know how long you are over in the uk for but try and get out of London and see the real england

Nuts!!! London IS England, further North you go the nearer you get to the border (at the Watford Gap)

Beer is better as you travel northwards
Chiswick, the Griffin Brewery? Reigate, Pilgrim Brewerys Crusader ale? not to mention Youngs special and Courage Directors et al... and Dogbolter I think London and the South more than holds its own in beer, please forgive us Whitbread before I left (12yrs ago) they seemed hell bent on buying every small brewery they could get their greedy paws on.

Nottingham beer festival over 600 different hangovers on tap - damn its north of the border for the southern shandy drinkers

Haynes Car Museum (crap manuals but excellent collection) Ahhh you gave me nightmares then, never have books been so frustrating and wrong.

try the red room every convertible you could ever imagine in red except an mx5 and they have a genuine crocker in the speedway display

you really need to get outside of the m25

[baptist]

One word. Shandy.

Went up north drinking a few times in the old days... Banks and Bass in Branston... go all the way to Orkney though and the Skull Splitter is erm... just as it names says

Have to say after passport control Nottingham and Rugby have some good watering holes.

Kendal mint cake... yummy always had that in my Bergen in the Army... and Bakewell Puds (not in my Bergen!!!)....

[baptist]

[QUOTE=popelli;1130120090]

you really need to get outside of the m25

But then you miss the Great British Beer Festival... and the Pigs Ear (if its still going, not been home in 12 years)

[Scouse]

Jaffa Cakes Mmmmmm Mmmmmmm

[cheshirecat]

Stinking Bishop and old port

[baptist]

Jaffa Cakes Mmmmmm Mmmmmmm

Found them the other day in Paknsave!!!! the Henderson branch had a British corner full of goodies... twiglets, smiths crisps...

As for beer... a nice pint of Spitfire or Winter Warmer would go down well right now...

[admenk]

We just came back from the homeland, with a case full of Jaffacakes and Cadburys minirolls. Didn't have room for the Banks' Mild though

And sorry Baptist, I don't even class anywhere inside the M25 as being part of the UK !

[NONONO]

Chips, real fking chips, oh and a pie, and some peas, with gravy, and a curry that does not taste like vinegar, and BIKE magazine, and the papers, oh and EXTRA STRONG MINTs, and a pint of Bass, and Grandstand, Final Score, the Shipping Forecast....
Fck it, I'm going home.

[cheshirecat]

Cod, Yorshire pud, banter, Daily Mirror, FT, Frenchies in Soho, Bldy 'ell, you've got me going now, just's well winging owt this sat.
That Max has a lot to answer

[GrayWolf]

Well roll me in honey and throw me to the lesbians,

I had the great pleasure of enjoying breakfast at the ACE Cafe in NW London this morning.

For those of you who do not know the place, the ACE was an iconic biker hang out in the 50's and 60's but had to finally close its doors late 70's / early 80's (I think, Google it for the real dates)

Maxx Mate,
if you have time dont forget the 59 club, AND a friday night visit to the Burger bar on Chelsea bridge..... if they are still going???

[Berries]

Batter bits.

[KiWiP]

Beer is better as you travel northwards

Bollocks

Shepherd Neame, Kent Spitfire or Bishops Finger
Hall and Woodhouse, Dorset, Badger Bitter
Charles Wells, Bedford Bombadier.

To name but a few.

Northern beer, Tetleys (well they make tea don't they)
Newcastle brown ale, pasteurised muck
Boddingtons , just nasty nasty nasty

Ding Ding round one

[Berries]

Being from Nottingham I get called a southerner by my Geordie relatives and a northerner by all the soft southern shandy drinkers. Can we define a boundary?

You have managed to pick three northern beers that are available internationally which always causes quality problems, yet quote three southern breweries that nobody outside CAMRA or SOBA would know about. I might as well talk about the Castle Rock brewery because it is better than any of the ones you have listed but very few on here will have heard about it. For better known beers I'll put forward Bass and Pedigree from Burton on Trent seeing as they are fairly local, and Theakstons make a pretty good brew as well. In the end the locally brewed stuff is always better.

I had a Bishops Finger once, was sore for a week. But that's your southern water for you. Did you know the Ganges is cleaner than the Thames? Less bodies apparently.

[growlley]

it's the Country's arse hole instead