General Discussion
Lansdown pub + Football
This afternoon their 5ft statue of a chef with the menu is stood in the road 3ft off the kerb! .. blimy nobody else would get away with that. Is business that bad when no football matches? I have to say because as it is a 'Football' pub together with suspicious people stood outside I would not go in regardless of the Menu.
Do they have Tennis or is it just Football?
Ray is a top bloke, but that's as good as it gets with this place. Have you witnessed this pub on the weekends? Full of luddites and morons....and positive proof that this country is dumbing down. In fact, pubs in Dawlish and Dawlish Warren are rubbish full stop! A severe lack of sophistication i'm afraid.
Agree.
You can always judge any town by its pubs. Now this lingering outside smoking and a pint in the other hand, to me seems right sad. As for the ladies/flighty bits with a fag .. well you know what I'm thinking lol.
Dick Ross (Richard Younger-Ross MP) visits the Mount Pleasant Inn with such regularity, I am beining to wonder why? Is it to mingle with what is portrayed as aristrocrocy or is there some other ulterior motive?
After all, many of the other upstanding bits of Dawlish regularly visit the place. Hockin, Bush, Connett, to name but a few.
Don't I just love it when the owner of Lee's bar walks in.
Do you mean Nigel Rackley? The Protheroes don't like him cus he tells it as it is! I'd rather have the honesty of Nigel than the jumped up lies of the Protheroes. They are nothing but superficial social climbers obsessed with acquiring money and property.
But it'll be a shame when Lee's Bar is replaced with the proposed apartments.
That said, I'm looking forward to the day when the Sunburnt Arms is either razed to the ground or at least taken over by someone who can fulfil the potential of it's prime location.
If I had the money, I'd be first in the queue to take it over and bring it into the 21st century.
How do you know that planning permission will be granted for Lee's Bar to be turned into residential units?
I thought I'd heard that the Town Council would be recommending to Teignbridge District council that it is not allowed because Dawlish Warren is a designated holiday area and therefore needs holiday accommodation not residential accommodation.
But who knows. I'm beginning to believe that anything can happen in this town.
As a policy/guideline, I can see that what you say makes a certain amount of sense.
However, I don't believe that converting a shabby rundown pub into modern attractive apartments necessarily goes against that policy.
After all, in order to take the Warren forward as a holiday destination, surely we want the general standards and appearance to be improved?
Also, holiday destination or not, everywhere needs year-round residents for the good of the local community and local economy.
Look at all of the places in Cornwall and indeed closer to home in the South Hams. Places that are ghost towns for all bar 3 or 4 months of the year because of the lack of full-time residents.
It will be interesting to discover what the powers-that-be decide.
Or if your name is Protheroe! They seem to have very little resistance to any project they undertake....and have a fast-track through planning regulations, which others find difficult to surmount.
Shouldn't that be Sir-Mount? I don't like them either! Money grabbers who pretend to be part of the community. I used to play pool and darts there but it was fake. All they care about is the food business...and that was crap!
Menu prices are already too high at pubs like the Mount Peasant. Talking of which....the prices of their alcohol and soft-drinks are scandalous! Can they honestly justify the price of pepsi or lemonade, when it is just gloopy syrup? It's a rip off!
It's all to do with greed. Pretend you are there for the community and you can get away with murder. When did you last drink there? At those prices i want shares in the Brewery that own the place, not just a view out of the window (if you can get a window seat )! Anyway, what a view...tacky amusements, tacky shop, another tacky pub,Go-Karts and toilets!
So "Roy", how do you think the view would be improved? I'm looking forward to reading your constructive comments.
For what it's worth, I could look at the view across the Exe / Lyme Bay all day and all night if I could. Unfortunately, some of us have to work for a living.....
Oh, you work as well do you Joey? Surely your job in the Warren should enable you to take in the view whenever you wish? Or does minimum wage drudgery obstruct you?
I would like to see the whole of the Warren as a nature reserve. No golf, no tack, just the Warren battling the elements.
I was at the mount pleasant a few weeks ago...never again. We had to wait ages for our food! And when it arrived the salad was about as nutritious as the cheap paper napkin! And the lasagne was just fatty cheese! And my friends egg looked like it was from a transport cafe!
What you say about drink prices is true....i couldn't believe the cost of our round of drinks! The whole experience felt tatty and naff! Also, there was a funny smell in the dining area....not sure what it was.
Never again! Friends recommended this to us and are very embarrassed. We treated them to a place we know and they loved it! They've said they wont be going to have this mount place ever again, as our place was superior in every aspect.
Then again, we should have expected the worst as it was in Dawlish Warren. Avoid at all costs!
Hi "Anon". What's the name of this place you know that your friends loved?
We like constructive messages on here, so share the good news with us all so that the delights can be sampled be more.
Hello Roy, I see what you mean about this Joey. He comes across as very slimy. Not the sort of person we would wish to fraternise with. He would appear to fit in nicely with that awful pub.
Hi "Anon".
A civil question surely deserves a civil answer?
Being the proud Dawlish resident that I'm sure you are, I'm positive that you'll want to expound the virtues of all of the good local eating establishments.
So, what's the name of this restaurant that you're referring to? I can't wait to pay a visit myself.
Seems roy and his imaginary friends is stuck for an answer again.Strange how he always runs the town down and yet when asked a normal question he fails to answer.
i was at a party at the mount plesant too! and me and my friends could smell something nasty in the room. it smelt like a dead rat or sewage. the pong was awful! oh and we got bripped off with the beer prices aswell!
I have heard that the prices charged at the Mount are very reasonable, after all, they attract those those that couldn't tell a brain cell from a dash of lemon.
Oh Wally is such a nice chap,(he is the Mare you know) he charges the most and pay's his staff the least. But as the staff are of such low mentality, giving them a l i t t l e perk here and there appears to make it all right. He is probably employing those disaffected children that is headline news at the moment, or those that are so desperate for a crust, that they make the totters on the rubbish tips in Brazil look good workers.
People will never improve their lot if they keep pandering to it.
Hi Viaduct, I'm glad to see that you didn't get washed away last week......
Which establishments do you recommend for eating and drinking in and around Dawlish?
Dawlish is rubbish! Why do you think a lot of people eat out in exeter or elsewhere?! All Dawlish has got is greasy food type places. Maybe its because my friends and i are younger and our tastes are more sophisticated. Pubs like The Mount Pleasent or Landsdowne seem to cater to grockles food tastes, with menu's stuck in the 70's. Some chefs are trying to popularise that era again, so maybe they will be in vogue again. You won't catch us there...they have no style....
Welcome, Lee'S Bar & Sunburnt Arms are dreadful as well...but at least they are not stuck-up like the Mount Pleasant! Pretension and Dawlish Warren just don't mix. Agree about Exeter. Buzzing and cool!