The Garibaldi, St. Albans

Traditional back street pub but not to my liking.4 Fullers beers and Hook Norton -lion.Quiet for a Friday night.Large outside space to the side.

One of many decent back street pubs in this area of town, the Garibaldi is a smallish building that manages to crowd a lot of space, Tardis-like, within. The old front door is disused, the entrance now being to one side, near the beer garden. There's an island bar with four hand pumps at the front and three more to the rear. These serve mostly Fullers beers: ESB, London Pride and Front Row, plus Gales HSB and Seafarer, the guests being Brains Bread of Heaven and Castle Rock Harvest Pale. I had the Front Row, which was well kept and carefully poured by the attentive landlord. It was fairly quiet at the time of my visit, with Aretha Franklin disguising the lack of conversational hum, though I can imagine it would quickly become crowded, being so small. Although the choice of beers is nothing to write home about, the quality is such that this pub would definitely be on my list for a revisit.