The Cumberland Bar – A summer beauty
A rerun of a previous review for the summer. When it comes.
This week, I’m bringing you another early review from the early days of this newsletter. So if you’re a newish subscriber, it may be the first time you read about The Cumberland Bar, a brilliant spot in the New Town.
The Cumberland is great in all seasons. It has lots of cozy spaces to snuggle up in during winter. But in the summer, you can benefit from the great willow-covered sunken garden – or get a prime spot in the sun at street level directly outside the pub’s entrance. Oh – and being part of the DM Stewart stable (them of The Guildford Arms) – you can rely on their ale to hit the spot.
Read the full review by hitting the link below, or scroll down for this week’s chaser. Now we just need some sunshine to enjoy that beer garden…
Where is it?
Where next?
Go east, and before long you will hit The Cask and Barrel, which has some outside seating that catches the sun on summer evenings.
Or, westwards, you have the awesome Kay’s Bar.
The chaser
We’ve all seen them at the pub: The lone person, usually a man, sitting on his own with a pint. Sometimes we are that solo drinker. Of course, being alone isn’t the same thing as being lonely. Except that sometimes it is.
Why does time spent in the pub help alleviate a sense of loneliness? My belief is that you are around people, but not with them, and therefore free from any responsibility for them... You are on the edge of gatherings, a spectator of family and friends getting together and the energy comes to you, though not in a vampiric way, but maybe it is like being at a gathering, a gig perhaps... Energy shared.
This is a lovely, honest bit of writing from beer god Adrian Tierney-Jones, confronting that feeling head-on, and going to the pub to stave off loneliness “which I know would pass but still needed to be dealt with.” Give it a read.