bod, Stafford

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This is a sizable cafe bar hidden away in a suburb south east of the town centre, occupying two knocked through shop units on a small parade. The pub has a single, tiled floor room with plenty of seating including a button backed banquette to the left, standard tables and chairs through the centre, plush armchairs to the front, high tables and stools near the bar and a couple of banquette booths in the rear right corner. Large shop windows to the front and right allow plenty of light into the front part of room, but once you're past the row of large structural support pillars in the centre, things become a lot darker and therefore feel a bit cosier. The room has a chic but somewhat rustic feel, with bare brick walls, scruffy wood cladding, exposed utilities, decorative ceiling tiles and the bar's name spelled out in big letter-shaped light features to one side. The servery is to the rear and has a timber fronted counter and matching bar back with lots of plants hanging from it. A separate cafe servery to the rear left has the same counter, but with a white tile bar back with hot drink options detailed on a board. There are lots of potted plants dotted all over the room, including on some high shelving units above the front windows and a pump clip collection snakes around the bar.
I noted four Titanic beers on the bar plus two guests, one of which was Everards Tiger, but as I'd arrived early in the day for some breakfast, the beer wasn't being served yet and I had to make do with a pot of tea instead. The breakfast was very tasty, as was the brownie that I bought for my journey home, but things weren't exactly cheap and so I'm not sure I really got good value for money.
I liked the feel of this bar, which was doing a great trade from the local pensioners popping in for some morning tea and brunch. I would obviously have preferred to have visited later in the day, so I could sample some of their ale range, but it has a bit of a micropub feel and may well justify the trek out from the town centre to explore.

Date of visit - 19th January 2024

On 17^th June 2024 - rating: 6
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