I had half an hour to kill whilst waiting for a watch battery to be replaced so figured I'd come here and read the papers - which is exactly what I did.

Mini beer fest going on with around 10 barrels set up to serve beer on gravity. No 4 on the crawl

Pretty busy Saturday lunchtime. Football on the TV and lots of people eating to the left of the bar.

I sat and watched the Sky News from the G20 protests and wondered where the world had gone so wrong from both sides of the fence

I sat and watched West Indies vs England in the cricket as Ravi Bopara got thumped in the head by a ball from Fidel Edwards.

Very quiet. I sat by the main bar and watched huddled groups of cold people walk by.

2nd pub on our mini-crawl. Fairly empty. The blokes at the bar infront of us seemed to be having Peroni lager shandys. I like this pub but when it's not too busy it does feel a bit like a railway waiting room.

I can never decide whether I like this place or not. Been twice in 4 days and I still can't decide. Nice place to sit and chat ,which Andrew and I did, over a pint of Dominator, about the world economy and house prices.

I came here to write my Christmas cards. Decent line up, and the office pre-party rabble left after a bit so it was quite nice sat here writing and drinking.

Only three ales on, but if you were to have 3 beers on in December it would be a job to beat these. Atmosphere was sophistictated as usual and a change from the Bell and the Beckett. There was a bloke in a suit writing out his Xmas cards.

Popped in for a swift half at lunchtime. The bar area was faily emtpy so I sat on a stool and read the free papers. Even though this feels more like a bar than a pub I like it - especially as the beers good and they usually have on Kent Micros.

Football was on and very popular in the rooms with TVs so Brian and I sat on a sofa. Decent beer line up and the barman was saying that they are trying to always have a guest on as well as regular Kentish beers.

Almost empty in the bar area, but plenty of people eating to the area on the right of the bar. I think it was Portishead that they were playing over the sound system.

We didn't have time to pop-in but I peered in the window at the bar to see what was on.

Last pub on Ian and my mini-crawl of Canterbury. It was very busy but we got a seat in a side room and watched the first 10 minutes of England vs France.

It's so odd that we come here, because we just aren't in the target audience. France vs England rugby was entertaining though.

Late Sunday PM. Pretty empty. Starting to lose that new smell. Discussed Kent's win with a couple of other people.

Last stop on my tour with Ian. Busy as always but we still got a seat in the snug. One of the pump clips was turned round but it was clearly a Gadd's clip. This is a good pub.

Looking at the rest of the clienele, I do get the feeling that me and Andrew are not the target audience for this pub/bistro, but whilst they continue to serve Kent micro beers in good condition, I'll keep coming back, even if I don't gel my hair.

Everytime I walk past this place I realise it's bigger than I thought. Anyway, I had half an hour to kill so I popped in to see if they still had local beers on. They did. Jolly good.

Created as part of the refit of the County Hotel on the High Street. This pub/bistro has multiple rooms with a couple of quieter rooms. A real fire accompanies some sofas plus there is space to eat and a covered patio area. Pushes local produce (line caught Hythe sea bass was the fish of the day). Still smells a bit new, some paint aroma. but a very cool bistro. Will do well. Four handpumps, only 2 in use.

I walked pasted this and when, 'ooh, new bar'. I then spotted a sign saying they served local food and local ale so I went in to see if this was true for the Ale. It was. Well done. Apparently it's only been open 3 weeks.