Welcome Back

 We walked out to Easton to restock on spice provisions.  Obviously, SweetMart is the obvious place to do this.  It's a couple of miles' walk there but that's an added benefit of the place.

After filling our bag with poppadoms, creamed coconut, rice, lentils and spices we repaired to the Greenbank pub to recover.

It's a really interesting pub.  It pretty much manages to pull off a brilliant trick of simultaneously being cafe, pub and social/community hub.  

They had 4 cask and 3 keg local beers available and a short but interesting little menu from the kitchen (pizza, burgers, casserole, etc).  We've eaten there before and the food was good, if not amazing.

The beers don't set the world alight in terms of range or novelty but what we had was good, cool and well kept.

We watched with interest the wide range of people in the place - from parents with kids, to someone working at one of the tables - to us.

We arrived about 4.15 and it was already buzzing - not bad for a January Thursday.

I've no doubt that we'd be reasonably happy were it very local to us and we'd kill for somewhere that interesting in Eastbourne but, neither of us think there would really be the appetite for it there.

Still - well done the team that have taken it over.  It's a lovely model for a pub.

After two pints we decided to head home and perhaps call in at the Assembly for a pizza if it looked promising.  So we struck out back down St Marks Road.  We discovered that G Brothers is now doing eat-in for their fab pizzas (their website indiciated they were take out only).  It would have been rude not to...

They didn't have keg beer on but they did have a fridge full of canned local beer.  

It was lovely being back in this quirky place and even better to see the stream of orders and callers being serviced.  We weren't the only people eating in, either.

This is another place that pulls off an excellent trick of being more than one thing to maximise it's appeal.

If I needed to buy a house in Easton, I'd be able do so knowing that the local amenities would readily available, and provided by fantastic independent traders.

Bravo!