Glastonbury Festival Good Pub Guide

[croiz]

Ey up all,

I had a search and couldn't find any thread similar to this...

What's your favourite bar(s)/pub(s), and why? Photos welcome too! I'd like to visit a few more this year...

For me it's the Cockmill (but I can't find any photos I've taken). Great beer selection. Very easy to drift in and out from the acoustic tent. Never seen it too rammed and has a chilled 'edge of the site' vibe similar to Strummerville.

[tarw]

I think that both of my two favourites have gone now. Rock the Kasbah and copper dollar both great places

[Ayrshire Chris]

For me, the bread and roses.  Good location, decent live music and atmosphere.  Not the biggest of bars but plenty outside seats. 

Edited March 31, 2022 by Ayrshire Chris

[Clarence Clemons]

wonderful idea for a thread ! 😍

[a6l6e6x]

4 minutes ago, Ayrshire Chris said:

For me, the bread and roses.  Good location, decent live music and atmosphere.  Not the biggest of bars but plenty outside seats. 

Yeh bread and roses stands out for me, always awesome in there 

[al_coholic]

Rock the Kasbah for late night entertainment for me, gutted it has gone.

For drinking, Tricketts?? top of the hill and the Avalon Inn

[Beerqueen]

The beer bus in the Theatre Field (I think) was cheaper than most of the others and had no queue to speak of.  Obviously it was just a place to buy beer rather than somewhere to hang out, but suited me a lot of the time in 2019. 

[Johnnyseven]

14 minutes ago, tarw said:

I think that both of my two favourites have gone now. Rock the Kasbah and copper dollar both great places

Are you sure the Kasbah has gone, I thought it was there in 2019?

[Johnnyseven]

My favourite bar to get a drink at is the Cider Bus, lovely lovely cider. I don't really hang in bars for the music, i'd rather be seeing bands on the stages or DJs in the Glade/SE Corner.

[BluePaul]

There was a new bar in 2019 - The Elephant Bar?  Part of the Carling setup but did have a couple of good craft beers on including Brooklyn Defender IPA and Brooklyn lager

 

[Tommy Dickfingers]

I’ll always try and go The Avalon Inn on Wednesday I think it’s the best looking bar on site.

[Mark_safc]

Probably a bit of a boring choice but when it's hot...I love a sit down around West Holts with a cider from the Brothers bar.

[paulshane]

Upstairs at the Avalon Inn on the wednesday, watching the site fill up. Marvelous stuff 🙂

 

 

Edited March 31, 2022 by paulshane

[clarkete]

20 minutes ago, Mark_safc said:

Probably a bit of a boring choice but when it's hot...I love a sit down around West Holts with a cider from the Brothers bar.

Tsk...surely the boring choice would be sitting at Mandela waiting for the next act on the Pyramid and yes I have done that numerous times.

[al_coholic]

I have compared the overhead maps from 2016 and 2019 and it looks like there is a bar in the place where Rock the Kasbah was both years. so fingers crossed it hasn't gone, unless it has been replaced by something else

[Hotchilidog]

6 minutes ago, al_coholic said:

I have compared the overhead maps from 2016 and 2019 and it looks like there is a bar in the place where Rock the Kasbah was both years. so fingers crossed it hasn't gone, unless it has been replaced by something else

Kasbah has gone sadly. Memories of dancing on a table to Busted 1.30am are long gone....I think there is a bar there but it's not the same

[kingbadger]

From memory both Kasbah and Chameleon had disappeared in 2019.

[kingbadger]

Good memories of dancing in the T&C bar most years on the Wednesday/Thursday 

[Gingerfish79]

2 minutes ago, kingbadger said:

From memory both Kasbah and Chameleon had disappeared in 2019.

Chameleon definitely went.

[Dave_c]

Always stop at the beat hotel for a drink, will be interesting to see what replaces it for 2022.

[Deaf Nobby Burton]

Yes I liked the bustle around the Beat Hotel in the day, plus you could get a pint of San Miguel as treat after having to endure several pints of Carlsberg. It will be interesting to see what they do but I can’t imagine it will be drastically different, I’d imagine they’d want a similar sign for people to sit in and climb all over for a start. 

[Avalon_Fields]

1 hour ago, paulshane said:

Upstairs at the Avalon Inn on the wednesday, watching the site fill up. Marvelous stuff 🙂

 

 

Yeah, this! We had an amazing 2-3 hours upstairs on the Thursday (I think) last time, whichever day was really hot. Wasn't planned, but we managed to get a table, the air rising upwards cooled us, and just drank & laughed the whole time.

[al_coholic]

Where was the Chameleon previously and was it replaced by something else?

[The Nal]

Delighted the Beat Hotel is gone. Usually rubbish left everywhere and a real town square in Torremolinos vibe about it. 

[TheWizard62]

2 hours ago, BluePaul said:

There was a new bar in 2019 - The Elephant Bar?  Part of the Carling setup but did have a couple of good craft beers on including Brooklyn Defender IPA and Brooklyn lager

 

Ooo I missed this one - can you recall where it was?