Comments on: The Market Arms on hold, waiting for permits

By: Celtic_Rich

Celtic_Rich — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 00:13:02 +0000

Just open before 2014 so I can watch Scotland win the World Cup in Brazil from a British Pub.

By: NoraBell

NoraBell — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:39:13 +0000

Well, it is heartier fare, I'll give ya that. A true English (or Irish) breakfast will take you pretty much through the day.

By: stokejason

stokejason — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 02:54:53 +0000

As a man from Stoke-on-Trent in the UK and now reciding in Ballard with my American wife a English pub would be great and some English food also. As for Norabells comments. Their is nothing wrong with English food. Our diet is healthy than yours. Hence we are all slimmer!

By: eric

eric — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:01:39 +0000

omg, waah wah wah.

By: Basil Fawlty

Basil Fawlty — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:14:53 +0000

To our wives and sweethearts! . . . . may they never meet!

By: PAS915

PAS915 — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:58:12 +0000

Love the G&D. Can't wait for the new pub to open.

By: NoraBell

NoraBell — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:40:16 +0000

Maybe a little loud on game days, but if the noise of a hundred barking dogs doesn't bother your animal a little Pub noise isn't going to make things worse. In my experience, vets aren't quiet places either.
I make the promise to be a quiet Pub patron, though.

By: Elisabeth

Elisabeth — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:24:22 +0000

But, it shares a wall with a veterinary clinic. It's not my vet, but I wouldn't appreciate noisy neighbors if I'm in an exam room with a sick pet.

By: Gene1

Gene1 — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:48:09 +0000

Oh, please hurry! Being underemployed makes one long for a cold one served in a festive atmosphere within staggering distance of home. (On the other hand, when I was fully employed I longed for those things too.)

By: NoraBell

NoraBell — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:45:14 +0000

It's on a busy corner traffic-wise. The people who live over there are not used to quiet and peaceful, anyway.
I live right on 15th, same level of traffic. You could host a soccer (ok, Futball) game on the corner and I doubt I'd even notice.

By: ChrisH

ChrisH — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:33:02 +0000

The new space looks like a very odd place to have a bar/pub. The G and D seems to attract the FC followers who arent known for being quiet and peaceful.

By: Elisabeth

Elisabeth — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:32:10 +0000

I liked those ads too! I grew up hearing how doctors often specified that their patients be given “a glass of stout” with their evening meal. It fortified AND relaxed them.

But those ads also remind me of what was printed on the inside of Good & Plenty boxes: “Candy is good food…Eat some every day.”

I'd rather have me a nice glass of stout.

By: Ballard_Dad

Ballard_Dad — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:20:05 +0000

HAHAHAHA! DPD turning around permits faster….HAHAHAHA

Good one. :)

By: Jules2

Jules2 — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:57:41 +0000

Half the pubs in London have been bought up by French chefs; that stereotype (at least in Kensington) are old history. “The Sun in Splendour” was one that was featured in Gourmet Magazine.

I love the old Guiness ads: “Guiness, it's good for you!” “Guiness, a loaf of bread in every bottle!” etc.

By: JoeBallard

JoeBallard — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:34:32 +0000

You would think that with the economy in a slump like it is the city would be quicker about turning around permits like this to get businesses up and running.

By: gurple

gurple — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:33:37 +0000

I'm hoping for bangers and mash, myself. And really, really hot mustard.

By: NoraBell

NoraBell — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:16:14 +0000

Ah, well, fortunately my Irish kin consider Guinness a meal in and of itself. Irish food may actually be worse than English food. But whatever is on the menu I'm sure there will be plenty of English and Irish beer and enough soccer to distract from runny peas and pale pasties. :-)

By: Elisabeth

Elisabeth — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:07:02 +0000

If this will be truly English, you'll see only peas, but dessicated, well-done red meat. Overcooked vegetables. Cucumbers in vinegar & salt, with olives and radishes served before every holiday meal. On the other hand, the best pie crust and mashed potatoes you could ever hope for.

There's a reason why the English tend to drink a lot. It takes quite a bit to wash down that dry, chewy beef, and to make one feel better about being forced to eat something so awful.

Oh, and will the pub make you stay there until you finish your meal? Of course, back in those days, I was a kid, so a pint of Guinness was never an option...

By: boardbrown

boardbrown — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:01:34 +0000

By nature, the DPD is always scrambling to catch up with the times. 2-3 years ago they were training a whole pile of folks to keep up w/ the boom, then had to pretty much lay them all off since then. I was down there 2 weeks ago, and it was a friggin' ghost town.

By: Alysse

Alysse — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:39:05 +0000

Maybe we should be arming bears (… er beers)!

By: dmcmanus

dmcmanus — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:17:11 +0000

AHHHHHH!!!!! OPEN DANNABIT!!!!!!

By: NoraBell

NoraBell — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:16:21 +0000

Yay fer peas!!!!!!

By: ballardmike

ballardmike — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:00:31 +0000

How will you have Bare Arms if all the hipsters never leave Ballard on weekends!?

So a casual English pub…. peas with everything?!? =|

By: Edog

Edog — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:54:47 +0000

Permits Schermits… we have a constitutional right to bear arms!

“A well lubricated Mob, being necessary to the belligerent discourse of a free neighborhood, the right of the people to drink and get drunk, shall not be infringed.”

Call your council member today….Tell those fat cats at city hall to give us our fully automatic boozy now, or well throw the bums out on election day!