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dc Wrote:
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> Take a bow Eric Illsley:
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> "The best definition of 'gastro-pub' that I can
> provide is a pub that provides food of such
> quality that people will attend merely for the
> quality of the cuisine, rather than because it is
> a place where they can drink alcohol."
I like this definition a lot, though it doesn't define what a 'pub' is ;) Still, I've spent a lot of time trying to figure out what makes a pub 'gastro' and it's pretty much different for everyone. I've been relatively disappointed by a lot of the Young's refurbs over recent years; I think they're losing some of the character of many of their pubs by pushing the food side. Maybe it makes them gastropubs, maybe it just makes them up-market pubs that serve food, but in either case, I think there's something being sacrificed to calculated blandness.
Dulwich Wood House
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