Eating & Drinking Links
Introduction
Here is a list of links to pages and sites that I've found that feature information about eating and drinking.
Following any of these links will take you away from my site, and I can't be held responsible for the content of these sites.
I've grouped the links together into sections. You can use these links to move directly to the sections if you wish.
- Pub Review Sites
- Restaurant Review Sites
- Pub/Restaurant Listing Sites
- Brewery Web Sites
- Other Beer Related Sites
Pub Review Sites
- Beer in the Evening - Aims to collect reviews for every pub in the country - and even features some abroad too. Sign in and submit your own thoughts.
- Fancy a Pint - Extensive reviews of pubs in the London area. Search by name, area, tube or rail station.
- Pubs 247 - Another country-wide review site although not as extensive as Beer In The Evening.
Restaurant Review Sites
- Restaurants.co.uk - Extensive review site for the entire country.
- London-eating - Aims to cover all of London. You can submit your own reviews. Offers special offers too.
Pub/Restaurant Listing Sites
- LocalPlaces.com - Local listings site being set up by friends of mine. The site is currently collecting nominations from general public and is signing up pubs/restaurants etc. They will be launching their full listings soon.
Brewery Web Sites
- Fullers of Chiswick, London - Information about their products and pubs.
- Young's of Wandsworth, London - Favoured by the royal family according to the photos.
- Harvey's of Lewes, East Sussex - Brewers of many gorgeous beers including the award-winning 'Sussex Best Bitter'.
- Brains Brewery in Cardiff - Favourite of mine when I was at Cardiff University. The 'Dark' mild is incredible.
- The Hopback Brewery of Downton, near Salisbury - Brewers of the legendary 'Summer Lightning' bitter.
- Sam Smiths Brewery of Tadcaster in Yorkshire - Traditional but idionsyncratic brewers that still use wooden barrels for their beers, which are all served at very reasonable prices.
- Wolverhampton & Dudley Brwery - Brewers of the well known Marstons Pedigree bitter amongst other interesting beers.
- Caledonian Brewery of Edinburgh - Brewers of the excellent Golden Promise organic beer.
Other Beer Related Sites
- CAMRA Home Page - Website of the Campaign for Real Ale
- Real Beer Pages - Huge US-based site with information about breweries and many different pubs and beers. Now incorporates Breworld.
- Beer-pages.com - Acknowledged expert on beer Roger Protz has teamed up with Tom Cannavan to present this magazine site. Primarily focussing on bottled beers, but with some information on cask beer and pubs too.
- There are also more beer-related links on my Demise of the Firkin Pub Chain page.
One or two of the pubs and restaurants I've comented on in my travel pages have web sites too, but the links to these are contained within the individual regional sections.
