Montpelier (Lounged)

[luddite]

went there on saturday night

the staf were disinterested the drin were epensive the music was on ver loudly and was dance music ...fine.. but people were eating resataurant styleee and prices to match ,we asked for a change in music to somethng more mellow ...nothing happened i think the manager was texting too much to take any notice .. not good enough

[tommy]

Annasfield - excellent !

Went past the Monty last night around 7 - the bouncer looked mean, and the staff outnumbered the customers, no TV in sight

[SkyAngel]

That's strange, I would never go in to any pub and tell them to switch to my kind of music. I might as well own the pub if I'm going to do that.

[Alan Dale]

What if there was a juke box?

[mewsbie]

Loving the Monty right now. Sweet people , food is pretty good. The only issue is identity. Is it a loud young bar, a footie pub, a gastropub. They'll work this out in time. Right now the only thing they get wrong is music volume. It's crazy having to raise your voice when youre having a quiet, possibly romantic drink/bite.

[luddite]

ps the bouncer is friendly polish and bleeding freezing tonight no doubt

tried again for tea and a desert earlier at about 6 was very nice { yummy rhubarb brulee}

[luddite]

ps the bouncer is friendly polish and bleeding freezing tonight no doubt

tried again for tea and a desert earlier at about 6 was very nice

[foxyarchie]

Just moved into the area and this pub sounds interesting, where is it?

[Rolo Tomasi]

You can find in for on it here Jill

[tommy]

Needs to decide what kind of pub it wants to be - can't be all things to all wo(men)

Food pretty good, atmosphere (especially during the week) lacking

[Mr Bojangles]

So is this place good for Footie? Are they switching the sound on now??

I'm keen to watch the might spurs continue their rapid rise up the table.....

[PeckhamRose]

It is bloody expensive to have Sky Sports in a pub so if they're gonna show it they would want to attract as many customers as possible in order to justify the cost.

Or... they're stealing it somehow.

(And if they are they'll get caught and prosecuted, if anyone reads The Publican now and again they'll know this.)

Another reason I love The Clock House ( - sorry "TCH" to remain in keeping with the trend for tiresome TLAs, or should that be TTLAs) is that they don't have a telly and the music is rarely loud enough to interrupt a conversation and the music is my kinda music too, and - well as well as the great food, Laurence is a bit of a dish int' he.

AND it's across the park.

If I want to watch footie in a pub I'd go to one I knew was legally paying for it and made an effort to accommodate all its customers. Some "football" pubs are right dives.

But this is East Dulwich, we don't tolerate dives, do we!

[all_star]

Its not knocked off Sky - you can tell by the pint glass logo in the bottom right hand corner of the screen

[????]

Just to be old school......IT'S FOOTBALL NOT FOOTIE.......that's it, you can go back to your prawn sandwiches now....

*yearns for the days when 'footie' wasn't a middle class badge of honour

[mockney piers]

sheesh...class...yawn....

When you've something useful to say....

[Annasfield]

You two should get on - you're both Hammers after all ;)

[Keef]

Actually it's Soccer ;-) There's nothing wrong with footy and I hear it said by plenty of people in the pub, none of whom will ever be accused of being middle class!

[Mr Bojangles]

Since when has Footie been a middle class badge of honour??

[macroban]

> Since when has Footie been a middle class badge of honour??

It's difficult to date the emergence of this social trend, but it was probably in the early 1980s.

[Administrator]

You can carry on this discussion in the Lounge

[k hogan]

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[mockney piers]

Keef's right, it's soccer.

Sorry quids, back spasmed mid commute so in a bad mood and quite a bit of pain.

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[Keef]

LOL! Er, not at your pain, but the reiki comment... Give them a bit of pain and suddenly everyone's a believer! ;-)

[????]

The beginning of the 1980s? No way - it first started at the 1990 World Cup and accelerated beyond control at "Euro '96". I was at University at the 1982 World Cup and in our hall of residence I remember perhaps 5 or 6 of us watching England games...and definitely no birds..........now everyone from the home counties, birds and all, support one of the predictables..."Oooh I like Chelsea they had lots of Italian players when I started liking Footie"..."Oh Arsenal look good, Melvyn Bragg and Nick Hornby support them"....my families from Mile End, my nan sulked 'cos her dad wouldn't let her go to Wembley in 1923 whilst her brothers bunked in over the gates....I don't have a choice and wouldn't have it any other way

Piers - I'll let you off as you're a Hammer

[mockney piers]

Those reiki types just aren't cutting the mustard you know...still in agony :(