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The Hadfield Hotel on Barber Road (Crookes). real ale & scrumpy on handpull. sky sports/espn on 2 large screens and various other smaller screens.
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Living in Sheffield and working in London
bigbear replied to samspade's topic in Sheffield News & Discussions
the trick with commuting between cities regularly is to get a Britrail pass. i travel regularly to leeds, manchester and london. my monthly (second-class) ticket costs around 420 pounds. there was a special on during last month and this month, and i only ended up paying 355 pounds for each month. if i am not wrong the first-class ticket is about 40%-50% more expensive but i have stopped bothering with first-class after all the "perks" were removed a couple of years ago. it used to be civilized coming home from work with a complimentary glasses of wine and nibbles served at your table. OP: PM me if you want more info on how to get this cheaper pass. -
Sakushi restaurant - your opinions...
bigbear replied to Hello_Nikki's topic in Going out in Sheffield
looks like the information has expanded since i last saw it and it now has it's own site --> http://www.cecj.fr/. Sakushi card anyone? -
Drug gang Jailed!!! - sheffield
bigbear replied to The Manager's topic in Sheffield News & Discussions
shocking aint it i think you should start slowly edging down your moral high horse now. you've just nullified your credibility in some other threads that you seem to be quite logical in. let's get this straight: what you are doing is illegal. just as illegal bike-riding is. -
No.1 Oriental Buffet Restaurant charging for tap water again
bigbear replied to sparky2's topic in Going out in Sheffield
maybe the price of water has gone up due to inflation. but back on-topic, these things only come up when times are tough. the restaurants see the gross profit per customer slipping as they will spend less on non-essentials like drinks etc, so are probably trying to claw back some of that. water's a easy bet to charge as it has zero marginal cost. it's hard to argue however if there are signs posted with a clearly defined cost, per medusa's post. the only fix to these problems is to vote with your feet. there are lots more other places to go to eat that serve better food for the same cost than the general state of slop served at the likes of Jumbo, No .1, Wokmania etc etc -
Living in Sheffield and working in London
bigbear replied to samspade's topic in Sheffield News & Discussions
actually that's a very valid point. the OP did not indicate his/her age, or whether there is a family involved. it gets harder to sustain a mobile lifestyle as one gets older. -
alas, that seems to be a common thing with Sanctuary. we tend to only go out after 1am/2am, so when a venue advertises a certain finish time, it is somewhat disheartening to get there to find the venue shutting down earlier. particularly if one has travelled out of one's way to get to the venue in the first place.
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Sakushi restaurant - your opinions...
bigbear replied to Hello_Nikki's topic in Going out in Sheffield
paris is generally regarded as the benchmark outside japan. it's a dog-eat-dog restaurant world there, and only the best and fittest get to be recognized. re the 80, the 2007 report lists 600 tested with 50 qualified. the PDF of the report, albeit in Japanese, can be downloaded from the JETRO website. i love my fusion Japanese, but that's a different kettle of fish altogether again. two of my favourite fusion Japanese restaurants are Blowfish in San Francisco and Kobe Jones in Sydney. Nobu (in London amongst other places) would also qualify as fusion, but their $$$ puts them into a completely different price bracket. these restaurants put a real effort into mixing nuances from different cuisines together to create new and fresh takes on old ideas. somewhat like what Hestor Blumenthal does with Bacon and Egg Ice Cream. fusion for the sake of "dumbing down" to get $$$ is a silly idea. that's the argument Guinness tries in their overseas markets. "Bottled in Ireland, tastes Irish". heh, try telling that to a draught Guinness drinker some people enjoy collecting cars, some like to spend their money on season tickets to soccer matches, some like to get on the **** every weekend to have fun. i save my pennies and compulsively travel the world to savour new and interesting flavours, or just to enjoy the subtleties of the same. if these flavours indeed are the same all over the place, then i've really been a fool and squandered my children's inheritance. try telling a Scotch connoisseur that a dram of Suntory Yamazaki tastes the same as a Laphroaig. -
Living in Sheffield and working in London
bigbear replied to samspade's topic in Sheffield News & Discussions
i'm a sucker for punishment i guess i am usually compensated not by hours worked, but rather by options and equity granted. so 80 hour work weeks used to be the norm for me. -
Living in Sheffield and working in London
bigbear replied to samspade's topic in Sheffield News & Discussions
the sheffield->london doesn't go near manchester or birmingham -
Living in Sheffield and working in London
bigbear replied to samspade's topic in Sheffield News & Discussions
that's one of the little annoyances of living in Sheffield. Doncaster is indeed a way better starting point for a London commute. -
Living in Sheffield and working in London
bigbear replied to samspade's topic in Sheffield News & Discussions
my contract was for 6 months. why don't you move down to London then? it worked for me as i negotiated abbreviated hours in the office (usually 11am to 5pm) and did a fair bit of work during the actual journey. -
Drug gang Jailed!!! - sheffield
bigbear replied to The Manager's topic in Sheffield News & Discussions
how un-British of you. depriving the state coffers of duty you should rightfully have paid if you bought them here. no wonder institutions like the NHS are running out of money... -
Living in Sheffield and working in London
bigbear replied to samspade's topic in Sheffield News & Discussions
i did it for six months. it's not that hard, nor expensive with an annual. but a cheaper option might be to take a room at hostel in London. (no i don't mean a youth hostel. there are hostels offering single rooms for working folk in London for people exactly like samspade)