The first pub Best Beer Buddy took me to in this town I call home, was The Buccaneer.
It's close to Towner where we had just been to a Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition and it was time for a sit down and lunch.
I was told tales of how it was once fitted out to be like a galleon. The beer was good, the ambiance was pleasant and it wasn't the last time I went there when making visits before we moved here.
In the time since then, the fortunes of the pub have wavered a little and the latest incarnation, run by the council, has been extremely patchy - it's also changed it's name to the Stage Door. Mostly, we've been giving it a wide berth.
However, yesterday, I'd been at the Tower all day - starting late morning and mostly there on my own until the troops joined ready for a gig we'd arranged there. This meant I'd been unable to go to the loo.
We finished with the gig around 5.30pm after the clear up and I was knackered. BBB asked where I wanted to go - and my main priority was to have a wee, then to sit down with a beer somewhere not too busy or noisy.
Beerarama had a gig on so that was out, so I suggested we just try the Stage Door on the grounds is was less than 5 mins away, had reasonable loos and would probably at least serve a drinkable (if not exciting) pint.
It was peopled but not too crowded when we arrived and there were 3 decent beers on. We grabbed a couple of pints, I took my ease, and we settled in. Beer was good (360 Tacoma which came as a surprise) - so we had a second (he switched to Rising Giant - I stuck with 360).
I'm genuinely happy that the place seems to have picked up again. It's as good a place as several other pubs in town - especially for a weary project manager.
Today, I think I'm looking forward to fridge beer, and the quiet company of BBB
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