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3 "title": "Local Knowledge",
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7 "summary": "<p>A relatively long hiatus this time – blame the Cambridge housing market and the\nneed to simultaneously act both incredibly quickly and mind-numbingly slowly.\nAlso obtaining a <a href=\"http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/content/dr-richard-mortier\">College\nFellowship</a> and\nexperiencing a <a href=\"https://blog.docker.com/2016/01/unikernel/\">Company Acquisition</a>\nwere considerable (interesting, welcome) distractions… :)</p>\n<p>As an interim measure, and because I’ve been asked relatively frequently over\nthe last few months, I thought I’d collect some local knowledge^Wopinion,\ngarnered over many long hard years of hanging about in both Cambridge and\nNottingham. What follows should be viewed as indicating nothing more than my\nlack of imagination.</p>\n<p>Both Cambridge and Nottingham are blessed with many fine pubs, as well as\nseveral truly terrible ones. Less said about the latter the better. But among\nthose that I like, and will occasionally drag various people to (including the\n<a href=\"http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/\">SRG</a>) are, arranged roughly in\ngeographical order from the Computer Lab to the Station:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.theploughcoton.co.uk/\">The Plough, Coton</a>. Gastro-pub-ish.\nFrequently changed management over recent years, but currently seems pretty\nconsistent and (finally!) is not limited to Greene King beers.</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://thecastleinncambridge.com/\">The Castle Inn</a>. Major long-standing\nAdnams “proper pub”. Very consistent. Castle Burger and chips please.</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.taylor-walker.co.uk/pub/pickerel-cambridge/c3602/\">The Pickerel</a>.\nAlso largely unchanged in a couple of decades. Good for a pint before entering\nthe Greene King desert.</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://whatpub.com/pubs/CAM/184/st-radegund-cambridge\">The Radegund</a>.\nTiniest pub I know of. Recently quite radically refurbished. But, while not\nwhat it was, seems pretty decent nonetheless.</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://whatpub.com/pubs/CAM/79/free-press-cambridge\">The Free Press</a>. Has\nimproved significantly while I was in Nottingham. Very good food and beer.\nStocks the only actually pleasant Greene King beer\n(<a href=\"http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/greene-king-xx-mild/14879/\">XX Mild</a>), as well\nas an interesting range of others. Quite small and often packed if it’s too\ncold to sit outside.</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.the-cambridgeblue.co.uk/\">The Cambridge Blue</a>. Surely one of the\nbest pubs for many many miles. Excellent and huge range of beer (and,\napparently, cider; won’t touch the stuff myself). Good food. Large and with a\nlarge garden too – rarely a problem finding somewhere to sit during the week.</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.kingston-arms.co.uk/\">The Kingston Arms</a>. Another excellent pub in\nthe station area. Possibly better food than the Blue, potentially slightly\nless wide ranging set of beers (and, certainly, ciders). Also a nice garden,\nthough in all respects somewhat smaller than the Blue so prone to being\nabsolutely packed. Doesn’t serve lager – a certain German colleague makes do\nwith JHB though.</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://whatpub.com/pubs/CAM/118/live-let-live-cambridge\">The Live and Let Live</a>.\nYet one more excellent and, though small, often less busy pub near the\nstation. No food in the evenings.</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://www.individualpubs.co.uk/devonshire/\">The Devonshire Arms</a>. Largest\nrange of Milton Brewery beers I know of. Food = pizzas I believe (though not,\nlast time I tried, as good as those at\n<a href=\"http://www.carpentersarmscambridge.co.uk/\">The Carpenters Arms</a>).</li>\n</ul>\n<p>I don’t get out to the villages as often as I’d like now, but <a href=\"http://www.thegreenmangrantchester.co.uk/#the-green-man-grantchester\">The Green Man,\nGrantchester</a>,\n<a href=\"http://www.bluelionhardwick.co.uk/\">The Blue Lion, Hardwick</a> and especially\n<a href=\"http://theredlionhiston.co.uk/\">The Red Lion, Histon</a> are (or were last time I\nwent) all excellent too. The latter is still possibly my favourite pub anywhere\nin fact.</p>\n<p>I only spent a few years in Nottingham, and it’s a Proper City unlike Cambridge,\nso I can’t claim to have tested it thoroughly. However, places I did visit\nfairly regularly in Nottingham, Beeston, and Wollaton that I certainly enjoyed\ninclude:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.theroundhousenottingham.co.uk/\">The Roundhouse</a>. A little pricey\nfor Nottingham, but good quality beer and food, nice atmosphere.</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.castlerockbrewery.co.uk/pubs/lincolnshire-poacher/\">The Lincolnshire Poacher</a>.\nVery excellent pub. Good whisky range too.</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.fellowsmortonandclayton.co.uk/\">Fellows, Morton & Clayton</a>.\nConsistently good, proper pub food, about 4 minutes walk from the station\nplatforms.</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.castlerockbrewery.co.uk/pubs/vat-and-fiddle/\">The Vat & Fiddle</a>.\nOnly finally tried more recently. Castle Rock brewery tap. Good food and beer,\nalso about 4 minutes walk from your station platform.</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.thehandandheart.co.uk/\">The Hand & Heart</a>. In a cave! It’s a pub\nin a cave! With excellent beer and good food! And not owned by Greene King!\n(Unlike <a href=\"http://triptojerusalem.com/\">Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem</a> which has\nbigger, better caves but markedly less good beer or food.)</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.bluemonkeybrewery.com/pubs/organ-grinder-nottingham\">The Organ Grinder</a>.\nAnother fine pub at Canning Circus. Blue Monkey brewery this time – rather\ngood. Food limited to (nice!) pork pies and such, but the beer is good.</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.nottinghambrewery.co.uk/the_plough_inn.html\">The Plough Inn</a>.\nClosest (decent) pub to Jubilee Campus. Nottingham City brewery tap. Excellent\nbeer, no food in the evenings, and prices that make me think I’m 15 years\nyounger…</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.victoriabeeston.co.uk/\">The Victoria Hotel, Beeston</a>. Consistently\nexcellent pub. Excellent beer, very good food.</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.everards.co.uk/our-pubs/crown-inn-beeston/\">The Crown Inn, Beeston</a>.\nAlso consistently excellent beer, though no food in the evenings.</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.molefacepubcompany.co.uk/the-wollaton-pub-and-kitchen.html\">The Wollaton Pub and Kitchen, Wollaton</a>.\nGastro-pub-ish. Generally good beer, often excellent but occasionally\npatchy food.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>So there you go. Some opinions if relatively little knowledge. YMMV. Etc.</p>\n<p>(PS. If I know you, I’ll also be happy to give recommendations of solicitors,\nbuilders and other house-associated professionals too. And a couple of\nwarnings.)</p>",
8 "content": "<p>A relatively long hiatus this time – blame the Cambridge housing market and the\nneed to simultaneously act both incredibly quickly and mind-numbingly slowly.\nAlso obtaining a <a href=\"http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/content/dr-richard-mortier\">College\nFellowship</a> and\nexperiencing a <a href=\"https://blog.docker.com/2016/01/unikernel/\">Company Acquisition</a>\nwere considerable (interesting, welcome) distractions… :)</p>\n<p>As an interim measure, and because I’ve been asked relatively frequently over\nthe last few months, I thought I’d collect some local knowledge^Wopinion,\ngarnered over many long hard years of hanging about in both Cambridge and\nNottingham. What follows should be viewed as indicating nothing more than my\nlack of imagination.</p>\n<p>Both Cambridge and Nottingham are blessed with many fine pubs, as well as\nseveral truly terrible ones. Less said about the latter the better. But among\nthose that I like, and will occasionally drag various people to (including the\n<a href=\"http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/\">SRG</a>) are, arranged roughly in\ngeographical order from the Computer Lab to the Station:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.theploughcoton.co.uk/\">The Plough, Coton</a>. Gastro-pub-ish.\nFrequently changed management over recent years, but currently seems pretty\nconsistent and (finally!) is not limited to Greene King beers.</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://thecastleinncambridge.com/\">The Castle Inn</a>. Major long-standing\nAdnams “proper pub”. Very consistent. Castle Burger and chips please.</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.taylor-walker.co.uk/pub/pickerel-cambridge/c3602/\">The Pickerel</a>.\nAlso largely unchanged in a couple of decades. Good for a pint before entering\nthe Greene King desert.</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://whatpub.com/pubs/CAM/184/st-radegund-cambridge\">The Radegund</a>.\nTiniest pub I know of. Recently quite radically refurbished. But, while not\nwhat it was, seems pretty decent nonetheless.</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://whatpub.com/pubs/CAM/79/free-press-cambridge\">The Free Press</a>. Has\nimproved significantly while I was in Nottingham. Very good food and beer.\nStocks the only actually pleasant Greene King beer\n(<a href=\"http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/greene-king-xx-mild/14879/\">XX Mild</a>), as well\nas an interesting range of others. Quite small and often packed if it’s too\ncold to sit outside.</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.the-cambridgeblue.co.uk/\">The Cambridge Blue</a>. Surely one of the\nbest pubs for many many miles. Excellent and huge range of beer (and,\napparently, cider; won’t touch the stuff myself). Good food. Large and with a\nlarge garden too – rarely a problem finding somewhere to sit during the week.</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.kingston-arms.co.uk/\">The Kingston Arms</a>. Another excellent pub in\nthe station area. Possibly better food than the Blue, potentially slightly\nless wide ranging set of beers (and, certainly, ciders). Also a nice garden,\nthough in all respects somewhat smaller than the Blue so prone to being\nabsolutely packed. Doesn’t serve lager – a certain German colleague makes do\nwith JHB though.</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://whatpub.com/pubs/CAM/118/live-let-live-cambridge\">The Live and Let Live</a>.\nYet one more excellent and, though small, often less busy pub near the\nstation. No food in the evenings.</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://www.individualpubs.co.uk/devonshire/\">The Devonshire Arms</a>. Largest\nrange of Milton Brewery beers I know of. Food = pizzas I believe (though not,\nlast time I tried, as good as those at\n<a href=\"http://www.carpentersarmscambridge.co.uk/\">The Carpenters Arms</a>).</li>\n</ul>\n<p>I don’t get out to the villages as often as I’d like now, but <a href=\"http://www.thegreenmangrantchester.co.uk/#the-green-man-grantchester\">The Green Man,\nGrantchester</a>,\n<a href=\"http://www.bluelionhardwick.co.uk/\">The Blue Lion, Hardwick</a> and especially\n<a href=\"http://theredlionhiston.co.uk/\">The Red Lion, Histon</a> are (or were last time I\nwent) all excellent too. The latter is still possibly my favourite pub anywhere\nin fact.</p>\n<p>I only spent a few years in Nottingham, and it’s a Proper City unlike Cambridge,\nso I can’t claim to have tested it thoroughly. However, places I did visit\nfairly regularly in Nottingham, Beeston, and Wollaton that I certainly enjoyed\ninclude:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.theroundhousenottingham.co.uk/\">The Roundhouse</a>. A little pricey\nfor Nottingham, but good quality beer and food, nice atmosphere.</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.castlerockbrewery.co.uk/pubs/lincolnshire-poacher/\">The Lincolnshire Poacher</a>.\nVery excellent pub. Good whisky range too.</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.fellowsmortonandclayton.co.uk/\">Fellows, Morton & Clayton</a>.\nConsistently good, proper pub food, about 4 minutes walk from the station\nplatforms.</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.castlerockbrewery.co.uk/pubs/vat-and-fiddle/\">The Vat & Fiddle</a>.\nOnly finally tried more recently. Castle Rock brewery tap. Good food and beer,\nalso about 4 minutes walk from your station platform.</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.thehandandheart.co.uk/\">The Hand & Heart</a>. In a cave! It’s a pub\nin a cave! With excellent beer and good food! And not owned by Greene King!\n(Unlike <a href=\"http://triptojerusalem.com/\">Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem</a> which has\nbigger, better caves but markedly less good beer or food.)</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.bluemonkeybrewery.com/pubs/organ-grinder-nottingham\">The Organ Grinder</a>.\nAnother fine pub at Canning Circus. Blue Monkey brewery this time – rather\ngood. Food limited to (nice!) pork pies and such, but the beer is good.</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.nottinghambrewery.co.uk/the_plough_inn.html\">The Plough Inn</a>.\nClosest (decent) pub to Jubilee Campus. Nottingham City brewery tap. Excellent\nbeer, no food in the evenings, and prices that make me think I’m 15 years\nyounger…</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.victoriabeeston.co.uk/\">The Victoria Hotel, Beeston</a>. Consistently\nexcellent pub. Excellent beer, very good food.</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.everards.co.uk/our-pubs/crown-inn-beeston/\">The Crown Inn, Beeston</a>.\nAlso consistently excellent beer, though no food in the evenings.</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.molefacepubcompany.co.uk/the-wollaton-pub-and-kitchen.html\">The Wollaton Pub and Kitchen, Wollaton</a>.\nGastro-pub-ish. Generally good beer, often excellent but occasionally\npatchy food.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>So there you go. Some opinions if relatively little knowledge. YMMV. Etc.</p>\n<p>(PS. If I know you, I’ll also be happy to give recommendations of solicitors,\nbuilders and other house-associated professionals too. And a couple of\nwarnings.)</p>",
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