It is well known that the hospitality sector is suffering badly at the moment. And we fear that, as we're treating the virus with some seriousness, and shielding, we personally are not helping. Although, it is probably quite a good thing for our liver and mental health.
Anyway, when chef Tom Kerridge included a piece on a Nunhead pub in his recent series on "Saving Britain's Pubs," we at the Trees had to watch. So which of the various local hostelries we have discussed over the last many years would he visit? The Rye, The Nuns? The Pyro or The Man of Kent?
No, he went to chat to the owner of a pub we have barely mentioned in all this time - the Golden Anchor on Evelina Road. We did mention it in passing, just the once, in 2012, during the first of this brief series. But that is all. And we have never crossed the threshold.
To be fair, it was an interesting programme, about how such business might survive repeated lockdowns and restrictions. Then Tom - in his role of avuncular expert sorting out her business - took the landlady to have a look at another nearby pub, that is doing quite well, given the circumstances. Well, a lot to choose from, still, we thought, so surely now we will see something familiar?
Nope. The Prince of Peckham. Not even in Nunhead.
Never been in there either.
Oh well.
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