The Goose is the town centres Wetherspoons pub, which means cheap beer and even cheaper women on offer. Three bottles of Beck's cost just £4, supermarket prices. Since the 'credit crunch' The Goose has been a more mixed clientele looking to save on beer prices but in general its younger working class than the student class. It's a proper noisy drinking bar where lads shout for no particular reason and girls act drunk even when they are not. Its peacock time and there's a lot of boozing going on. It's a great starter pub for the youngsters to mix with a good range of people and the emphasis is always on fuelling up here with that cheap booze so to head onto clubs and those longer hour opening trendy bars to boogie and mingle.
The crescent shaped bar is huge although the static tall tables and chairs cause congestion on the busy nights, resulting tensions at the bar. It's the type of pub you get gangs of guys in and the testosterone is flowing. But when the bar is packed with pretty young girls and the beer is flowing it does have that holiday bar atmosphere. We all know English girls don't wear much in the winter and so bars like this are packed with totty. With the pub dissected into two parts for eating in the week you can escape the din with intimate alcove tables for five at one end. For smokers there's no beer garden so you have to go back outside and on the pavement, a rather pathetic gaggle of people shivering away talking to the bouncers. For some reason you are only allowed to enter the bar from the Fish Street entrance and you have to exit from Giles Street, meaning the smoker shave to walk all the way around the pub to get back in. The smokers can't take their drink with them as it breaks the law. The recent meeting of G20 ministers in Sussex to discuss the world financial crisis saw the law waved and they were allowed to smoke inside, as MPs are in the bars of the Commons. I don't smoke but please give these guys somewhere safe to smoke. The rate pubs are closing and the alcohol prices are going up because of the lost smoking revenue there wont be any pubs to do anything in soon.
Pubs like this make their money on food in the week and it's very popular too in the lunch hour with very cheap pub grub deals. To be fair this is one pub that has actually seen those non smokers being attracted back to pubs and bars now the air is clean, although that doesn't include the horrendous stink in the nicotine free toilets read more