Ales & Tails in Rugby

The little beer shed has changed hands and is now a mini bakery outlet selling some quite good bread, coffee and baked snacks. I hope that Ales and Tails mobile operation is still out and about.

Been twice, once when it was doing a roaring trade to folk sitting out and around on well distanced little tables mostly drinking draught ale from a keg inside the rustic and glazed medium sized garden shed efficiently equipped and affably staffed with a guy serving refreshing booze and some other stuff. On our second visit we had mistaken the opening rimes and it was our fault that we had to slink off thirsty and thwarted. I think this cabin is a good thing, not only for casual drinkers but also for the spirit of the Broadway itself, a fifty odd year old single street local shopping hub in a sleepy middling outer suburb with a predominantly ageing customer base and a rather sad percentage of empty or silent shops. A & T bring some life to the pedestrianised curve and is better than the big franchised coffee place and the humdrum pasty and bakery shops. Not sure that we would flog out of town to Plymstock just to come here but if we had reason to come down out then we would use this place. Maybe it’s not quite like having a long lingering session outside a relaxed bistro, slightly shaded from the sun but we’ll lubricated with a couple of good bottles of wine but it’s an appealing place to take your weight off your feet and knock back a one, two, or more glasses of passable ale. Apparently the same guys have got themselves a trailer or two and a pitch down in nearby Radford Park and Arboretum which sound like another good reason to get stroll down there and snack and quaff by the water.