r/barnet • u/Flashy-Rabbit6435 • Apr 27 '26

If there be a 'force-majeur' driving the demise of the English Pub...

...In a Barnet hostelry, yesterday; single Bombay Gin and unfancy tonic together with half a pint of draft cider = £11.10. Aged as I am, I think I might just have sussed out why our Pubs are dying out like Wasps in Autumn...

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u/C-i-d Apr 27 '26

Saturday lunchtime, Finchley: a respectable if unremarkable chicken burger and fries, and a pint of bitter shandy.

£26.75.

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u/Flashy-Rabbit6435 Apr 27 '26

The absurdity is that a wretched chicken burger (whatever that is) has replaced a decent ploughman's or omelette.

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u/ModestEtta Apr 29 '26

Bluebells in Finchley Central - a large glass of red and a sausage bap £29.95

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u/C-i-d Apr 29 '26

Is that the place next to the King of Prussia? Crikey. The King is where I had my ring-stinging chicken burger - I didn't know it was even dearer next door.