robin hood pub

[sundave]

been nosing on the other forum and there's a post about the robin hood up buxton rd, someone put a post about it being up for sale and speculation as to a strip joint/lap dancing bar or a thai restaurant.
i for one would not be surprised if robinsons have got it up for sale, it's had at least 8 landlords in the past 6 years and financially ruined 4 of them, the place is just too far out of the loop and has absolutely nothing to draw people in, no business person in their right mind would throw money at it in the present economic climate except to maybe knock it down and build a house or two on the land, to my knowledge it hasn't been an earning pub since griff and joan had it and thats ten years ago now and if i remember rightly they ended putting their own money in to keep it afloat for their last year there.
let it go to a developer, it might seem a shame to see it go but not as big a shame as watching it fall apart through lack of care and clientelle.

[Adora]

I agree with you Dave. The only other way it might possibly work is if it had a total re-vamp and presented itself as a really good eating pub, along the lines of the Legh Arms or the Hare & Hounds further up High Lane. People WILL travel for a good, hot lunch or dinner but it has to be great food & great value. If it's really child friendly, families would flock in - there's no where for miles around that really caters for children just at the moment.

The other point I was wondering about.....whenever these rumours start, WHY is it ALWAYS a lapdancing/strip bar that gets mentioned? Every time a pub or spare building comes up for discussion, it's always accompanied by dark & dire predictions of lapdancers or porn type businesses!

I was in a lap dancing bar once, in Las Vegas. No beggar asked ME to dance!

[Adora]

It's not called the Hare & Hounds up High Lane is it??? What's the name of that pub Dave - it's opposite the dentist & the new pharmacy? Jeez, I was only in it a couple of weeks ago and I forgot the name already!!!!

[John Ellis]

It's not called the Hare & Hounds up High Lane is it??? What's the name of that pub Dave - it's opposite the dentist & the new pharmacy? Jeez, I was only in it a couple of weeks ago and I forgot the name already!!!!

Adora, you're surely thinking of the one with the carvery - the Dog and Partridge, which became the Lyme Arms for a bit, only to revert to being the Dog and Partridge again; breweries must have money to burn, given the total refurbs and rebrands that they do at such frequent intervals! Food's not bad there, and cheap too, except for Sundays - as long as you like the carvery; not much of a menu otherwise.

And the one up the road on the same side, towards Disley and opposite the old Thresher's, has been refurbed as well. My turn for amnesia - can't recall the name of that one. Was that the Legh Arms? (As in the old Cheshire quip: "As many Leghs as fleas, and Masseys as asses"!)

But I think you and Dave are both right about the Robin - only been in there a couple of times under the last landlord, and found it a spiritless sort of place. Given its situation, food, preferably with a "niche market", seems the only solution - being on the A6 should surely help, if they can pitch it right. I doubt there's anything in the lap-dancing rumour, but I suppose that would be a niche market. But then the Grove is hardly Colorado - I doubt bordellos out in the sticks would go down that well hereabouts, either with planners or neighbours ...

Though even food doesn't guarantee punters through the door. The Royal Oak's on the fringe of High Lane in pretty much the way as the Robin's on the fringe of the Grove, and, unlike the Robin, does unexotic but really nice food at a reasonable price. We like both the place and the food, and go quite often. But not many other folk seem to. I've never seen it really full, and more often than not there's just us and another couple of diners, plus four to six blokes at the bar, downing the ales. We've wondered how they keep it going, unless it gets lots of custom at times when we're not there. But if you fancy a nice, quiet meal in a nice quiet pub, it's a good place to go.

[Belvoir]

Red Lion?

[John Ellis]

Red Lion?

That's the one - cheers, Belvoir. The Red Lion's got some good recent reviews on-line, I see, but we haven't tried it since it re-opened. Need to try the new menu, chef and regime at the Rising Sun first - as discussed, to use the discreet Westminster expression, in "another place"!

[Belvoir]

I remember when the Red Lion used to be the 'in' place to go and was always packed! also the one on High lane is it the Horse Shoe?

[nedsram]

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[Adora]

Dog & Partridge - That's the one! Thank you.

Ned - wassit mean, wassit mean??? The translator won't do the whole sentence!

[nedsram]

Ned - wassit mean, wassit mean??? The translator won't do the whole sentence!

Thank you very much for asking that.