Beachcombers

Are there any pubs here trying to recreate a little oasis of the UK?

We did stumble across a couple in Auckland. "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" in Takapuna and a pub in Browns bay. All football shirts and yorkshire puds! But it was a bit like a "real English Pub" in Benidorm, out of place and naff.

The Patriot Bar in Devonport was a great place to hang out during the Lions Tours and we had some great night out's there.

love30stm

Well I didnt come to NZ so i could look for English pubs, because its not England, I prefer there cafe culture and restaurants for a drink more relaxed Love it, so dont even bother to look for English pubs, might as well stayed at home

ned

Ooooohh, hark at her

jennifer45

You usually find that most 'pubs' here have 'minders' on the doors, so it's very difficult to find a real English Pub' with crowds of inebriated clients tumbling off the pavements into the gutters clutching the last dregs of their bottles to their uncovered tattooed bellies/bosoms.

But give it time- NZ has shown an uncanny knack of following undesirable trends from both the UK and the US of A.


Really sounding my age now- Aw what the hell! I'm going to replenish my glass!

ned

I am great fan of a good Public House and the above description is nothing like any I would frequent (well without a lot of persuasion)

jennifer45

How much?

Evilbert

Everytime I think of a british pub, all I can think off is the scene in America werewolf in London.

ned

Now that looked like a good pub to me.

Well without the pentangle....

...and the Yorkshiremen

Evilbert

Well I suppose they has beer and pie, and no chavs! Perhaps being bitten by a werewolf is small fry compared to being stabbed by a drunken skinhead lunatic. or beaten up a bouncer.

ned

Poor soul, it's never happened to me, it must have been very traumatic for you

southerner

The Duke of Wellington (the "Duke") in Dunedin is pretty good, its in an old bank building, good range of british beers and normally English barstaff.

There's a brilliant kebab house just around the corner too, but no decent curry houses within a few blocks.

ned

Many a night I have found my way home with the old Kebab Compass

Evilbert

You haven't lived till a bouncer has pushed you down the stairs and broken your finger, just another reason why I love this great country of ours.....haven't been stabbed by a lunatic yet, but I'm sure I could probably get myself into that much trouble if i tried

ned

You know that has never happened to me. I can imagine that it has happened in New Zealand more than once. Better keep quiet when you get there, just in case

Evilbert

Thankfully I think those days might be behind me now, wife and two kids probably wouldn't let me get that p*****! Plus I can't believe doorman anywhere in the world could be as mental as the one's that seem to make up the UK stock.