Viva Brighton Issue #80 October 2019

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The Montpelier Inn is a place where we like to do our best to make everyone feel at home. Our newly renovated pub is a very unique place, with its rich history and our friendly atmosphere. We show all the sports and also host live acoustic jazz, as well as a monthly throwback disco event. We also serve a variety of foods with our international Street Food menu. Join us and get a pint and main for £10 with this advert! Plus, bookings of 3 or more people receive a complimentary bottle of house wine. 7-8 Montpelier Place | <strong>Brighton</strong> BN1 3BF | 01273 640195
BITS AND PUBS ............................... PUB: THE JOLLY BREWER I get a bit lost looking for the Jolly Brewer, and ask an old fellah for directions. “I’m going that way, follow me,” he says in a gruff Glaswegian accent. “A couple of years ago I’d have advised you not to go in, but now…” When I see the pub, rising high on a street corner on Ditchling Road, I realise that it’s that odd-looking mosquelike building I’ve seen from cars and wondered about. It is, unmistakably, a former Tamplins pub, and not just because the defunct brewery name is writ large on the wall: it’s crowned with a splendid dome like the Grand Central, or the Alibi. I immediately feel at home when I walk through the ornate doorway, and not just because my wife is already sitting at a table inside. We’ve arranged to meet at 7.30pm; I’m ten minutes late. I’m taken by the pub’s unlaboured flea-market-furniture feel, the dim lighting, the way the clientele look as if they’ve settled in for the night. “We have a vast array of delicious crisps,” the cheerful barmaid says, when I ask if they do food. “Or you can order takeout, and eat it here.” They have a wide array of delicious beer, too, it turns out. I order an Abyss Brewery Dank Marvin; Rowena goes for a Gun Pale Ale. We phone in pizzas from PizzaMe, and decide, from the pile of games in the corner, to play Scrabble rather than Trivial Pursuit, because we don’t want to fight in public. We’re onto our third pint by the time the pizzas arrive, and I realise that we’ve settled in for the night, too. I get chatting to a guy on my intermittent trips to the smoking yard: it turns out he works in the pub, but he’s come on his night off because he likes it so much. He lives around the corner, but he never used it before it got taken over: it was a right roughhouse. It’s a sister pub, of sorts, to the Hand in Hand in Kemp Town, where the landlord used to work. That’s my local chatting pub: another good sign. We finally spill out at ten thirty. Naturally, considering our beer-fuelled mood, we chat to our taxi driver, who knows the pub well. They do quiz nights, and live music, and the beer’s great, he tells us. “It’s a far cry from a couple of years ago…” Alex Leith 174 Ditchling Road Illustration by Jay Collins ....19....
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Page 13 and 14: JOE DECIE .........................
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