Stafford shops opening - Turning into a boom town?

[Tumble weed]

Anyone got any reviews?

5* on Facebook, 4.7 on Google, so looks pretty decent, so long as they keep the quality up, obviously now they'll probably be on uber and such seeing as they're not limited to trading hours and days of the market, so quality may drop , but we'll see how they cope with increased demand.

 

[airbusA346]

Cravers lasted years tbh , pretty sure it was around well before lockdown. Think it was called something else originally, but all it did was just change the name to Cravers, the menu was pretty much identical.

Their website was registered on the 1st May 2020.

 

[Tumble weed]

Their website was registered on the 1st May 2020.

Yeah , it was a pizza shop before that with the same menu, but can't remember the name.

 

[gilesjuk]

Yeah , it was a pizza shop before that with the same menu, but can't remember the name.

Street View history is your friend, it was The Farmhouse Pizzeria.

 

[Tumble weed]

An application has been put forward to turn the old Ethel Austin / Max 99 p shop into a bar. The emporium .

The Emporium | Stafford Borough Council

www.staffordbc.gov.uk

 

[proactive]

An application has been put forward to turn the old Ethel Austin / Max 99 p shop into a bar. The emporium .

The Emporium | Stafford Borough Council

www.staffordbc.gov.uk

Presumably because there aren't enough bars in town already?

 

[basil]

Ahh, the old Victor Value emporium. The late and great Bob Monkhouse did a personal appearance there in the 60s. Allegedly some eggs were broken.....

 

[Gramaisc]

Will they be reopening the Salter Street entrance, as in the Tesco Home-n-Wear days?

 

[proactive]

Parked up in Mill Street at lunchtime.

Walked from there to Market Square. On the way up the high street I nearly got knocked over not once but twice by youths on bikes riding the wrong way up the PEDESTRIANISED zone. Going past Maccies there was a group of idiots making nuisances of themselves, one of whom nearly got pushed into me by his mate. All around there were paper napkins and discarded burger wrappers blowing in the wind. Followed by the customary Beeeeeg Ishooo as you go past Smith's. Finally made it to Number 3 for lunch with a mate who had had much the same experience. On the way back I got beeped at by a guy in a EV6 for not hearing come up behind me (well it was windy and I didn't hear him, even though his car was making the obligatory slow speed noise). He was off course driving in the PEDESTRIANISED ZONE.

I felt Stafford was a hateful place to be today. I love lunch or an evening meal and drinks at Number 3. But you've really got to be dedicated not to just bugger off to a much better managed town centre to spend your money.

 

[Mudgie]

Presumably because there aren't enough bars in town already?

Or to 'replace' the Butlers Bell ?

 

[proactive]

Or to 'replace' the Butlers Bell ?

So somewhere shit where all the drunks can have a pint before and during breakfast?

You forget we have the Picture House.

 

[Gramaisc]

A career in hospitality marketing beckons...

 

[DoggedWalker]

So somewhere shit where all the drunks can have a pint before and during breakfast?

You forget we have the Picture House.

How cheery of you. Butlers Bell is a decent spoons pub as spoons pubs go. I hope it escapes being sold on to live for another day.

Stafford should be able to support a much larger bar/pub scene than it does. Plenty of ‘average’ northern towns have nice wine bars and things, and you only need to head to places like Leamington, Shrewsbury to see similar size towns doing exceptionally well on the hospitality front.

 

[Cirrus]

Parked up in Mill Street at lunchtime.

Walked from there to Market Square. On the way up the high street I nearly got knocked over not once but twice by youths on bikes riding the wrong way up the PEDESTRIANISED zone. Going past Maccies there was a group of idiots making nuisances of themselves, one of whom nearly got pushed into me by his mate. All around there were paper napkins and discarded burger wrappers blowing in the wind. Followed by the customary Beeeeeg Ishooo as you go past Smith's. Finally made it to Number 3 for lunch with a mate who had had much the same experience. On the way back I got beeped at by a guy in a EV6 for not hearing come up behind me (well it was windy and I didn't hear him, even though his car was making the obligatory slow speed noise). He was off course driving in the PEDESTRIANISED ZONE.

I felt Stafford was a hateful place to be today. I love lunch or an evening meal and drinks at Number 3. But you've really got to be dedicated not to just bugger off to a much better managed town centre to spend your money.

I had a very similar experience to this today. Nearly got run over by a truck in the pedestrian zone, never heard it because of a guy making sure everyone knew that he was clearing his throat.

 

[staffordjas]

Ahh, the old Victor Value emporium. The late and great Bob Monkhouse did a personal appearance there in the 60s. Allegedly some eggs were broken.....

My mum worked there.

 

[kyoto49]

Parked up in Mill Street at lunchtime.

Walked from there to Market Square. On the way up the high street I nearly got knocked over not once but twice by youths on bikes riding the wrong way up the PEDESTRIANISED zone. Going past Maccies there was a group of idiots making nuisances of themselves, one of whom nearly got pushed into me by his mate. All around there were paper napkins and discarded burger wrappers blowing in the wind. Followed by the customary Beeeeeg Ishooo as you go past Smith's. Finally made it to Number 3 for lunch with a mate who had had much the same experience. On the way back I got beeped at by a guy in a EV6 for not hearing come up behind me (well it was windy and I didn't hear him, even though his car was making the obligatory slow speed noise). He was off course driving in the PEDESTRIANISED ZONE.

I felt Stafford was a hateful place to be today. I love lunch or an evening meal and drinks at Number 3. But you've really got to be dedicated not to just bugger off to a much better managed town centre to spend your money.

And yet when I said Stafford was a shit hole I got shouted down. Our town has been turned in to a run down, poorly maintained shell of a place populated by all that you have described. Most of these things can be dealt with by a competent council, yet our joke of a council do absolutely nothing about the issues you describe. Meanwhile they have put up more signs stopping people letting their dogs off in the old bit of the Eccleshall Road cemetery, as it now has some public nuisance order or something, while they can't find it in themselves to deal with actual anti social behaviour affecting many in our town centre.

 

[gilesjuk]

while they can't find it in themselves to deal with actual anti social behaviour affecting many in our town centre.

I think it can be explained by the opening scenes of Idiocracy.

 

[Thehooperman]

How cheery of you. Butlers Bell is a decent spoons pub as spoons pubs go. I hope it escapes being sold on to live for another day.

But is it only decent because all of the breakfast drunks have now vacated to Hogwarts across the road?

 

[Mudgie]

So somewhere shit where all the drunks can have a pint before and during breakfast?

You forget we have the Picture House.

I've enjoyed a pint before and during breakfast about fifty times in the better of the Smithfield Market pubs, 5am to 9am license, when in London but not been or become a drunk. Where have I gone wrong ?
No, I'd remembered the Picture House, an alternative to the Butlers Bell when the Sow's not too high.

 

[GNM67]

But is it only decent because all of the breakfast drunks have now vacated to Hogwarts across the road?

Ooh, I'm not the only one who calls it that