Booze o’clock
This nugget of information was posted on 14/06/10 at 11:46 am by Lee and is filed under A View From The Bar.
In Leeds we have a large range of late bars throughout town which can be a blessing or a curse, generally depending which side of the bar you’re on and whether you’re a social vampire.
When is a late closing taking it too far, will it be Bloody Marys for breakfast at the bar you entered before midnight, watching the sun rise over your friend’s lifeless carcass with his hand draped over an empty jager bottle (sorry flashback…)? At what point are we changing the drinking culture completely to contain nothing but nocturnal consumers? Maybe the future holds nothing but shifts that start with a rum nightcap and end with a whiskey brunch.
The traditional style of drinking in a pub or bar till eleven and then moving on to the club which would be open to three or four is becoming redundant because there is a bar open past that time anyway! This might not be a bad thing however, a more relaxed attitude to the time allowed for consumption can be nothing but good – it’s when this is taken advantage of that we see punters spilling into the latest bar having been turfed from where-ever closed before.
The afternoon drinking crowd is dwindling away and with it the number of drinkers who take a little bit more time choosing their drinks because there’s no Saturday night rush to decide what you want.
It’s hard enough already for a new business in this industry to get going and now they have to worry about opening times as well. Is closing before midnight even an option anymore for a bar to survive?
