25 Caroline Street, Cardiff [map]
No wonder there's uproar at Mitchells & Butlers' proposal to transform the Kings Cross into a fancy eatery.
Not only is it Cardiff's best-known gay bar, it also offers a steak and a pint for £5.99 on Wednesdays. Such recession-busting prices surely won't survive a gastropub relaunch.
The amiable bar staff are purveyors of both your standard cooking lagers (you can't go wrong with a reassuringly gaseous pint of Foster's, after all) and a smattering of more esoteric fare.
Although a session built around the consumption of something called Doom Bar is surely destined to all go a bit Oliver Reed.
Echo columnist Dan O'Neill reckons that "the survival of the Kings Cross as a gay pub is infinitely more important than the survival of the much over-hyped Vulcan."
We're inclined to agree with him.
Despite its odd shape - the building, which dates from 1872, is sandwiched between the twin lanes Mill and Chippy - Kings Cross still manages to feel fairly cosy.
It's like a lagery oasis of camp in an otherwise arid wasteland of scoffing, shouting, scrapping and, erm, sicking.
And it's got free Wi-Fi.
4 comments:
Kings Cross Serves Doom Bar? *Downs tools and leaves house*
Dear Pint of 45,
Why is all of your photography of such rubbish quality?
Is it because you spend all of your money on lager and therefore cannot afford a decent camera?
In retrospect, I see some of your old posts have fine quality photographs, did you drop that camera into a pint of lager?
Yours,
Pisshead.
Ps.
Please enable anonymous commenting so that I can abuse you.
The Photographer got a new cameraphone that, sadly, doesn't seem to cope very well in low lighting.
But fear not, we're working on a solution. All being well, future pics will be slightly less rubbish.
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