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A Young's pub with a large terrace, the other side of a small plaza from the river. Beer was fine. Special was �2.60, ordinary was �2.40 [June 2004].

One plasma screen for sports.

Sofas.

The 2nd floor is a waiter service restaurant including a balcony with half a dozen tables looking out over the river. The food all sounds very pretensious but isn't horrendously expensive and is pretty good (about �7.50 for sausages and mash). The desert menu looked good but expensive (�4.50 for most dishes). They didn't seem to object to us sitting there the whole evening. There is a standard order-at-the-bar food service elsewhere in the pub.

(MDF: Downstairs, there are about a dozen cold dishes, three sharing platters, some sandwiches, and about five or six hot dishes. Overall I would characterise the food downstairs as tasty but small. A �6.95 Lancashire hotpot had a reasonable amount of hotpot but only two small wedges of bread and no vegetables; a similarly priced chilli con carne once again had a decent amount of the main dish but came with only a handful of tortilla chips and a small dish of sour cream. The Greek sharing platter (houmous, tzatziki and taramasalata with pittas) had plenty of the main dips but only three pittas cut into strips. The lack of side dishes would not be a problem except that there are no extras available to order; the reason given when I asked was a lack of facilities downstairs. I suspect, albeit with only circumstantial evidence, that the hot food available downstairs is actually cooked in advance upstairs and microwaved. )

The toilets are hidden away underground in a maze of twisty passages, all the same. At least, the blokes' toilets are.