Trying to remember the Sunday night route in town. If you were off kilter, the bars were empty.
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Drinking in Sunderland City Centre - restored
- Thread starter Kingdom Bhoy
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Latka Gravas
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Table service, although he did say it was 3 deep at the bar.
think the last time i did it was a bank holiday sunday in 98. last chance saloon was sinatras..
deffo up for a saturday day time job. start and finish point (probably 5 pubs later, these days
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Was there a queue to get in?queueing up to get in the botanist
some lads will do owt to placate their lasses
2 drinks, just shy of £20
"keep the change"
Too long to get served at the bar so I gave it a miss.
Nice place though.
Busiest I've seen the town on a non match day for years.
We were in the Botanist about 4.30-5 and saw people turned away, dunno if that was cos they wanted food though. Missus much prefers it to the KT, but KT drinks selection is way way better for me.
Aye had a few in there.
Sgt Pepper
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Wouldn’t say the Cooper is depressing, but the service is starting to piss us off on matchdays. There’s times when there’s a lull in how busy the bar is and you can still be stood ages while the staff piss about taking ages or all grouped down the far end of the bar chatting away not realising (or ignoring) there’s people stood further up waiting to be served. We’d go somewhere else but it’s canny ideal for our group size and they do have a good selection on tap.
Ciro_DiMarzio
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Use the app to order marra.
Sgt Pepper
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Aye could try it like. One of the lads usually orders himself some bait that way, never thought about it for our rounds but might be worth a go if the service continues. Frustrating thing is it must be one of the bars that have the most staff working in the town.
Gunners in comparison has about 2 people behind that little bar and they’re always on their game.
Sign of shite management. They’re in the customer service industry and they should be trained to serve customers first. So many places with poor service culture where the staff hide behind the bar, in the kitchen or anywhere they can avoid doing the core function of their job. Easily fixed Wilburn management ensure the right focus is applied.
Kingdom Bhoy
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I remember some years ago in Cooper Rose I was standing at the bar 11:30am on a Saturday to meet a mate who had travelled up for a match from Manchester.
I was the only one at the bar and the barmaid asked me who was next!!
Before the recent skunks match my mate ordered some drinks on the Wetherspoons app after an hour when they didn't we left.
He went in the next day to query it and was met with a shrug of the shoulders!
Went to Ship Isis for an early tea, then tried to get in botanist at about 5, was turned away, so went keel tavern, was chocka but no problems getting served, then peacock was really busy downstairs, then went upstairs for punk/ metal night, great night all round, nice to see Sunderland busy.
Kingdom Bhoy
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Happening city.
There was an hour wait to get in the Motiraj at 8
mini-x2
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The Derry
Idols
Boulevard
City Tavern
Chambers
Giles' Pies
Marlowes
Sinatra's
Motiraj/Leonardo's/Luciano's/Johnny Ringo's etc if you wanted to carry on drinking
Turning loads away from Spice Empire when we were in
Digby’s before/ after Boulevard if you could get near the bar.
Shandy drinker
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Even with the nee injun opening
Cee Jay
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Always Lucianos for post pub drinks on Sunday
Not sure I’d be able to get up for work of a Monday morning now.
