bod, Stafford

The original bod on Bodmin Avenue in a small shopping parade,a cafe bar owned by Titanic and formerly a Co-op which has moved over the road into a site formerly a pub !. It's a square room with a long bench seat in brown leather,some sofas,high tables,coffee tables and an L shaped bar sporting cake displays but with a row of handpumps offering on my trip Titanic Plum Porter (NBSS 4),Iceberg (NBSS 4),Steerage,Anchor ,Everards Tiger and Hopnosis DDH Pale.Usual pub hours are kept and there is outside seating for good weather. The only place to really drink in Weeping Cross and well worth the hike up from the canal.I will most certainly return.

Surprisingly located in a suburban shopping precinct, the modern café / bar seems to attract a mixed clientele attracted by both aspects of the operation. Light and airy inside the single square room, with some small tables out in the sunshine on the front pavement. Four Titanic real ales plus a pair from 4Ts: Busman's Holiday Bitter and Hop Monster Series #24 (Citra & Ekuanot, £3.80). Also has a row of craft keg taps on the bar-back.

This is an unusual Titanic outlet in that it's a cafe / bar set at the end of a few shops in a modern area of housing on the Eastern edge of Stafford. I got here a few minutes before midday on a Tuesday when it was much more of a cafe than a bar as they don't serve alcohol until midday. There were quite a few people in for coffee and snacks. It's a roughly square room with an unfinished looking ceiling and mostly low seating. I would imagine it becomes more like a pub later in the day. The rear of the bar has six hand pumps which had four Titanic beers, Dark Star Hophead and Battledown Amber. I went for their Iceberg (£3.20) which was outstanding. It's an odd place this but worth a look. The 825 Lichfield bus goes here from opposite Stafford Station or outside the Sun.