The Hop Poles - Middle Street, Brighton
Monday, October 22nd, 2007Situated Halfway down Middle street, the Hop Poles has built up a reputation for providing great food and a great place to drink.
Situated Halfway down Middle street, the Hop Poles has built up a reputation for providing great food and a great place to drink.
There are a number of good boozers on Trafalgar Street, the George, the Prince Albert. Between them you’ll find this pub - Let’s have a look to see if the Lord Nelson Inn is worth a visit. . .
Do you like beer? No not that generic Euro fizz, I’m talking about real ale! If you do, this is the pub for you.
This is a bit of a special pub - Not only is it a charming 200 year old building resplendent with its own resident ghosts (the only spirits I believe in are in the optics) it has the smallest ‘big screen’ TV :-).
Here’s a ‘chain’ pub - I know this ‘cos a friend works for the chain in question and scored us some half-price vouchers, let the drinking reviewing commence!
A rear view
Previously known as the ‘Hole in the wall’ - this is Brighton’s smallest pub.
Sometimes life likes to give you a metaphoric kick in the plums - I got one of these shortly after reviewing the Temple Bar, as within weeks it was shut down and torn apart! (I didn’t think it was that bad )
I’ve neglected things a little of late - And there have been many changes over the summer - A few pubs have been refurbished or even renamed! And the smoking ban has begun to bite now the colder (I would say; ‘wetter’, but the summer was a bit of a washout) weather has arrived.
It’s weird [...]