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Best Bar None awards toast pubs and clubs (From Bournemouth Echo)
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Best Bar None awards toast pubs and clubs
3:45pm Tuesday 11th September 2012 in News
Joint winner in the pub category, Christopher Creeke, presented by director of tourism Mark Smith
BOURNEMOUTH’S Best Bar None awards – which celebrate good practice in the night-time economy – take place tomorrow night.
It is Bournemouth’s fifth year of Best Bar None, a national voluntary scheme aimed at ensuring good standards in the industry.
All venues in the running have had to meet stringent criteria on health and safety, licensing regulation, fire safety, codes of practice and other relevant standards.
Bournemouth’s night time economy co-ordinator Jon Shipp said: “We have been very pleased with the increased level of applications this year and the indications are that there has been a significant improvement in the scoring levels and the standard overall.
“The scheme continues to be an excellent audit of licensed premises across the conurbation.”
The keynote speaker for tomorrow’s ceremony at Bournemouth’s O2 Academy is the High Sheriff of Dorset, Jermey Pope (pictured).
The Daily Echo is supporting Bournemouth Best Bar None and we will present our own award on the night decided by the editors. The following venues, which have been successful in gaining accreditation: 29/30 The Triangle; Aruba; Bar So & 1812; Bliss; Brasshouse; Buffalo Bar; Chaplins; Chilli White; For Your Eyes Only; Grove Tavern; Le Chic; Hogshead; Inferno; Lava Ignite; Moon in the Square; O2 Academy; Old Fire Station; Parkstone and Heatherlands; Sir Percy Florence Shelley; Sound Circus; Spearmint Rhino; The Christopher Creeke; The Crown; The Mary Shelley; The Winchester; V Club; Walkabout; Yates’s.
Comments(9)
manyogie
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5:58pm Tue 11 Sep 12
manyogie
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6:05pm Tue 11 Sep 12
So, tomorrows headline is 'Jermy Pope ejected from Party by doormen'
And thats not my spelling for ol jermy Pope, LOL
Loyal2AFCB
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7:24pm Tue 11 Sep 12
miltonarcher wrote:Couldn't have put it better myself. Yet elsewhere one of the few decent pubs in Bournemouth is going to be bulldozed to make way for a supermarket. You couldn't make it up!
What a truly unpleasant collection of down market establishments. Really emphasises the fact that when it comes to decent bars and restaurants Bournemouth is a waste land of mediocrity.
Adrian XX
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8:43pm Tue 11 Sep 12
miltonarcher wrote:Well said.
What a truly unpleasant collection of down market establishments. Really emphasises the fact that when it comes to decent bars and restaurants Bournemouth is a waste land of mediocrity.
Adrian XX
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8:44pm Tue 11 Sep 12
meet stringent criteria on health and safety
If they care about health, let's hope they are doing liver function tests at the door on the way in.
Talkingheadera
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6:38am Wed 12 Sep 12
whataboutthat
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9:56am Wed 12 Sep 12
The award for the most threatening gaggle of p****d up smokers at the entrance: The Shelley in Boscombe.
The award for the most rapid decline into mediocrity: The Moon in the Square.
The award for the slowest bar staff but trendy with it: Sixty Million Postcards.
The award for the most threatening (and nonsense) customer signs including 'we have the right to search anybody on these premises': The Grove, Southbourne.
The award for the most women and children friendly pub thus a place to be avoided if you fancy a quiet point with your mates: Ludo Lounge Southbourne.
The award for probably the most expensive beer in Dorset: The Rising Sun at Bashley.
The award for the best pub with some of the best beer in the world in a quiet muzak free intimate atmosphere where the bar staff say hello and you are served promptly and with grace: The Portehouse Westbourne.
Adrian XX
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11:46pm Thu 13 Sep 12
The award for the best pub with some of the best beer in the world in a quiet muzak free intimate atmosphere where the bar staff say hello and you are served promptly and with grace: The Portehouse Westbourne.
Ten years ago I would have agreed, but since Marstons bought Ringwood, the beer has become crap (it was declining anyway before that). I've tried all the Ringwood beers in the porterhouse several times since the takeover and they just don't compare with some of the beers from small and truly independent breweries around Dorset and Hampshire.
miltonarcher says...
5:31pm Tue 11 Sep 12