Owls Nest, Morecambe

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This is a rather unusual bar, set inside a wide stone building, which has a bit of a sports club feel to it. You enter into a shallow but very wide room with tartan carpeting, exposed stone walls and a small servery on the back wall, slightly to the right of the entrance. There's a decent seating space to the left, with plenty of tables and chairs plus a plush banquette around the rear wall. More of the same can be found opposite the bar, with some small round tables and low stools in support. The bar has a backlit counter front with a timber top and a fairly plain bar back. Two steps leading up to the right-hand side of the room, take you into a bare boarded space with high tables and stools to the front and a pool table in the centre. This area has a typical public bar feel, enhanced by the presence of a dartboard and a large TV screen showing muted Saturday night programming whilst an excellent soul soundtrack played in the background. There is also a huge panaoramic image of Morecambe Bay along the back wall here, which is worth checking out. A few bits of quirky decor have been dotted around, plus a fair bit of owl themed tat and some other TV screens which were not in use. Out the front is a big outdoor seating area, which includes a long row of sheltered bench booths.
On the bar, there were five handpulls, but these presented an unhappy ratio of two beers (Theakston Wainwright (£4.00 a pint) and Black Sheep Bitter) versus three unclipped handles. It was quite busy when I visited, but even so, the pub still had quite a chiled vibe for a Saturday evening.
I made a bit of a blunder adding this place to my crawl, as I'd mistakenly thought it was another micropub, so it was a bit of a shock when I discovered something very different. It's quite a quirky place that seemed friendly enough and had a decent drop of Wainwright, but it's not exactly a destination pub and if tight for time, the nearby Little Bare is the obvious pub to go for.

Date of visit - 13th January 2024

On 22^nd March 2024 - rating: 6
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