Goose On Two Streets

Ich bin einige Male in der Goose gewesen, da es in Northampton neben dem Britannica eine der wenigen Alternativen für annehmbares Essen zu bezahlbaren Preisen ist, wenn man nicht schon wieder zum Asiaten will.
Man bereite sich also auf ein sauberes aber nicht sonderlich gemütliches Lokal vor, in dem es Bier zu annehmbaren Preisen und typisch britisches Essen gibt. Wer bisher ‘Bangers and Mash’ noch nicht probiert hat: Hier bietet sich die Gelegenheit diese Krone der Britischen Küche einer Geschmacksprobe zu unterziehen.
Fazit: Ein Platz an dem man zu annehmbaren Preisen zu Essen und zu Trinken bekommt. Nicht mehr und nicht weniger.

Cheap! Cheap! Cheap!
Some great food and drink offers. Opens early. (9am, 10am for alcohol). Sometimes need more barstaff.

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

I really like this pub as it is cheap, has a good range of drinks and it is quite a large pub with a big bar area and plenty of seating areas away from the bar. It always gets really busy on a Friday and Saturday night but has a great atmosphere and attracts all sorts of people and ages.
It is a good place to start the night off before heading off down to Bridge Street where most of the pubs are situated.
I do feel that sometimes there is not enough staff on though as you can wait quite a long time for a drink at busy times.
There are plenty of toilets which is always a good thing.
If you are looking for a busy pub with a good atmosphere and you don’t want to pay the earth for a drink, then this pub is great. It’s a great place to meet up with friends for a meal too as they do food although I haven’t tried this yet but have heard good reviews.

The Goose on Two Streets is conveniently located just off of the main high street in Northampton and provides a good range of food during the day to accommodate for most tastes (including vegetarian), which is great quality all through the day and evening unlike others.
To my surprise, they also have a good range of drinks too, including some unusual whiskeys and other spirits, which make for a good start to any night out and the prices also add to its appeal.
Because it is such a relaxed atmosphere it’s also a good meeting place but can get a little busy during the evenings at the weekend because of its growing popularity.

If you’re looking for good deals on drinks then the Goose On Two Streets is the place for you. As a place to start a night out on the cheap then it’s perfect. It gets very busy on Friday and Saturday nights as a result of the good prices and hence can be quite noisy and raucous. My personal opinion is that I’d rather pay more for a less hectic place but in these troubled time it’s certainly suitable for one or two cheap drinks before heading on to Bridge Street.

Great value for money, & regularly has special offers. Even though it’s a very popular destination, it never has an overcrowded feel.
It can be quite noisy, so it’s not the place for a quiet drink.
Located only a short walk from the Dernagte theatre.