Gloucester Road
The
Stanhope Arms
97, Gloucester Rd, London, SW7 4SS
Date of Visit : 22nd June 2005
Approx. Time of Visit: 9.30 pm
Route Used: Circle from High Street Kensington
Distance Traveled : 1.05 miles
Guests: None
Clientele: Casuals
and totty
Pub Number : 048
| Beer |
Cost |
Comments |
| Guinness | £2.90 | |
| Foster's | £2.64 |
| Characteristics | Rating | Comments |
| Ambience |
|
Humid but OK, the real action was outdoors |
| Facilities |  |
2 x fruits, 2 TVs and a SKY large screen |
| Ladies |  |
2 specials, many enjoyables and a busty latecomer |
| OVERALL |  |
A half-decent pub that usually delivers |
This is one of JJ’s pre-cottaging haunts (before he watches Fulham), so he was looking forward to an evening visit and we weren’t let down. The pub was unbearably hot so we ordered our pints, got the barmaid to top up the Guinness (when will they learn?) and made a bee-line for the exit. Most of the patrons were already settled outside and the number of women on show was unusually high for a Marathon Drinkers stop! Within seconds we witnessed what could possibly have been a lesbian kiss (although more realistically it was probably two friends saying goodbye after one alcopop too many). Either way it was the start of a small stream of women parading past! After an experience like that we needed a seat and in front of the pub we spotted temptation – a bus stop! Now at the time this was a hilarious novelty and in hindsight it is still particularly amusing! More tellingly in the twenty minutes we sat there I do not recall a bus stopping! That’s London Transport for you! But there was no time to get political, the only way to combat 5 mid-week pints and the onset of sun-stroke had to be Bosphorous…the kebab emporium that has proven to be every Marathon Drinkers friend. Pub 6 wasn’t to be… Tim was off on holiday for a short break in Dubrovnik before our next stop at Goodge Street.
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