The final pub crawl is one devised by myself and Derek in an entirely immature moment, and the route will be given below. If you want to see the childish humour at work, get a map of glasgow out and figure out the shape. It’s a comparatively mild route for drinking but takes in a fairly wide range of pub. Drink in each one. Pubs (and some of the intermediary route) are listed, but not complete. Visit as many as you can that you pass:
- Solid Rock Cafe on Hope Street (easily accessed by either bus or train, being next to Central).
- Sir John Moore.
- A trip down Roberston St.
- Casino on the Clyde (if you fancy a quick hand).
- Along Clyde Street to Barfly.
- Fat Boab’s.
- Times Square.
- Goose on Union Street (passing the Cathouse, if you wish to start elsewhere and end here).
- Foquets.
- Drum And Monkey
- Edwards.
- Revolution (“for the vodka connoisseur”).
- Flares (the highest point, but it is a nightclub).
- Rufus T. Firefly’s.
- Otis B. Driftwood (no, it’s not cheating).
- Candy Bar.
- Cosmopol.
- Solid Rock Cafe (closing the circuit).
Since the route is closed, you can start and end wherever you like. Depending on your clubbing whims, you may wish to end near Union street (handy for Sub Club and the Cathouse) or Sauchiehall Street (Garage, etc). Although, if you end at Solid Rock Cafe, you can dart along Union Street (taking in 2 more pubs) and get to Union Street in minutes.
I can’t personally verify the quality of all those bars but by the time you’re halfway round I’m sure it won’t matter.
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That’s not a pub crawl, it’s a list of pubs to be avoided at all costs!
Might I suggest a ’skirting the park’ option? It might go something like this: Liquid Ship, Doublet, Stravaigin, The Goat, Firebird, Ben Nevis, McChuill’s (sp?), The Observatory. You could probably fit Air Organic, the Polish Club or the old Buff Club in there too for a bit more boozing, and if you need to close the loop from the Observatory back to the Ship, continue down Woodlands Rd. via The Halt Bar and Uisge Beatha.
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Aha! But does it make a comical shape which was the sole basis for the pub crawl? If it wasn’t for Rufus T. Firefly’s, and by extension Otis B. Driftwood’s, I’d be inclined to agree that it should be avoided.
Your suggestion, it should be noted, would also be fairly handy for the Woodlands Road burger van; one of the finest eating establishments open at 3am.
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Despite being co-conspirator on this one, I have to admit that my idea of an ambitious pub crawl is from 17 Lilybank Gardens to Jim’s Bar, and, well, one of those isn’t even a pub….
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Oh, and I must disagree about the Burger Van. Any establishment that tries to convince a drunken me that eight chips do a roll ‘n’ chips make (and succeeds) should not be frequented on principle.
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Ah – my mental mapping skills don’t allow me to work out what the shape is. But I can probably guess.
Re: the burger van – when the people who work there go to the loo in the Halt, they do not wash their hands. True fact, and one that nearly put me off buying a roll with bacon and tattie scone there every time I get pissed.
I’m with you on the nano-crawl, though, Derek – Barrington Drive to Liquid Ship, in my case.
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Nano-crawls are the way of the future. Rufus T’s to Otis B’s: you don’t even have to go outside.
Derek suggests you can even “go via the toilet”.
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