Decca Years, The - Cock Sparrer

The Happy Cocks

Advantages: Prices, amount of food, range of food.
Disadvantages: None yet

Yes that is the real name of the pub in Whitchurch, Bristol. I have been there twice there with my children and would rate the place excellent. The kids food is good plateful, at a great price, whilst offering the standard kids fayre like burgers, chicken nuggets, etc it also offers a more grown up but smaller portion selection like steak, gammon, etc. For my ten year old this is a very important part!! For the price you pay the amount of food is staggering and I have to say not once has any of it been bad (unlike TGI Fridays, but thats another opinion). Last week I had the King Prawn sweet and sour, large portion of King Prawns, well cooked, egg fried rice AND a pancake roll AND chips, tasting gorgeous. Now I am not a huge chip eater but their chips are lovely!! My partner had the 1LB burger, its huge!!! but valiantely he ate it ...

Emma1973 22.09.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Hungry Horse Restaurant, The Happy Cocks, Whitchurch, Bristol

The Cock and Camel by day and night

Advantages: Good food and atmosphere by day - cocktails and music at night
Disadvantages: Gets very busy

The Cock & Camel in Oxford is something of a Jekyll & Hyde pub. By day it is a lively pub serving good food and a range of beers. It's a good place to sit on a sofa and read a newspaper whilst you watch the tourists walk by or to meet up with friends for a chat. By night it turns into an exciting bar serving cocktails and with a downstairs "alternative bar" playing good music to dance to. The food is fairly inexpensive and there's always something slightly different on the menu - warm goats cheese salad last time I was there. My fiance had the burger and only just managed to finish the mountain of chips which accompanied the huge burger complete with "all the trimmings" (salad, cheese, chili, relish etc). I had mushroom stroganoff which was gorgeous - and again a very large serving on a massive plate. The pub is situated ...

indychick_uk 05.03.2001 (07.03.2001) · Read full review
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Review of The Cock & Camel (Oxford)

Classic early 70s pop

Advantages: Very varied collection from an often underrated act
Disadvantages: The occasional sub-standard track

Having chafed at their lack of creative freedom, Marmalade signed to Decca at the end of 1969, insisting on full musical control, and promptly netted themselves a transatlantic Top 10 hit with the introspective "Reflections Of My Life". (According to the NME and MM charts, #1 - Guinness Hit Singles, only #3). It was no flash in the pan; follow-ups like the folksy "Rainbow", the irresistible singalong summer tune "Cousin Norman" (in my opinion, the best Marmalade single ever), and the more rocking, Status Quo-esque "Radancer", saw them regularly on Top Of The Pops over the next couple of years. Guitarist Junior Campbell left in 1971 to be replaced by the equally talented Hughie Nicholson, and in fact this 2-CD set divides neatly into tracks featuring both the aforementioned. Their touch never faltered; they could rock with the best ...

JOHNV 16.07.2000 · Read full review
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