The Court Bar Review

Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high. There’s a land that I’d heard of once in a lullaby…..

The Court Bar wasn’t that place but in keeping with the song’s loose association with those whom like their bread buttered on t’other side it seems quite fitting.

Sharks and myself certainly weren’t in Kansas anymore upon entering this fine establishment, don’t get me wrong the place, quite tidy and clean but when you walk into a pub at lunch time and the barman (who by the way bore more than a striking resemblance to Bruce, the gay guy with the tache from family guy) starts playing “its raining men” by the weather girls from behind the bar you know something aint quite right.

Cue the sudden realisation that we were in a “GAY BAR ,GAY BAR” I suppose the other bar tender with the Abe Lincoln beard, stove pipe hat and funky leotard should have gave the game away but hindsight is a wonderful thing.

It’s actually a decent wee place for a quick pint of an afternoon, situated on Hutcheson Street in the Merchant City it’s a nice setting also with yawn windows that open right out in the summer. Price wise wasn’t too bad either for the city centre, 3 pints coming to £8…One of them being a Magners!....Thats right, 3 pints as we were joined on our quest to the Emerald City by the scarecrow of our group in that “If he only had a brain” he’d be doing well.

Like the land of OZ being of the weird and wonderful this place was no different but at the end of the day there’s no place like home.

Gav/Sharks Rating 5/10