Sockless metrosexuals and Bilbo Baggins at gastro pub with buzz

Our resident pub reviewer was in a new part of town, and fancied a liquid lunch at the local gastro pub.

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Threatened by the Krays in pub loo during liquid lunch

Secret Drinker had a very warm welcome at a pub where regulars, and newcomers, are treated like part of the family – and even sing along together.

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Two very horny hounds and the axe-wielding barmaid

Trick or treat? Secret Drinker calls in at one of Kent's most famous inns as it prepares for Halloween.

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The pub that's taking over the whole street

Secret Drinker turns back the clock to explore a town centre pub that just can't stop getting bigger.

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‘It's a barren desert without a single boozer worth visiting'

It's a sobering experience as Secret Drinker makes his first foray to a Kent high street.

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Secret Drinker, the footie team and a pub of two halves

Secret Drinker visits a pub of two halves and rubs shoulders with a football team with questionable music taste before stumbling upon a real gem.

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'It was like I had just walked into someone's front room, not a pub!'

Silent Witness on the gogglebox, cuppas on the couch - but has Secret Drinker hit the jackpot?

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Secret Drinker at the super-sized pub in the middle of nowhere

Is bigger always better? Our pub spy heads along Kent's leafy lanes to find out.

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'The most uninviting pub I’ve ever had the misfortune to visit'

This is why they say never go back: Secret Drinker revisits one of his student haunts

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Dropping anchor in the pub that time forgot

Old skool cool rules - Secret Drinker heads back to the 80s.

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'A fitting aroma but does Pig run before it can trot?'

Secret Drinker had trouble finding a pub that was a) open and b) not 'bookings only' and when he finally found one he got a rather dismissive welcome.

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On the wrong side of the tracks at The Railway

The Secret Drinker heads into a town centre Wetherspoon for an afternoon pint and finds the 'loudest' barmaid in the world.

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The golden oasis and the punters' new shirts

Our pub spy stumbles on a rural oasis where the welcome is warm, the glasses are chilled and the darts team's nicknames are lairy to say the least.

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Helpful, chatty and hard-working! Is this the ideal barmaid?

Secret Drinker heads to a back street boozer and gets more belly laughs than he bargained for.

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The free house and the fish with extremely large fingers

Our undercover reporter visits a 500-year-old free house which has its own bitter, and fish finger sandwiches that need to be seen to be believed.

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Always read the 'regulars only' sign

Our pub spy gets two very different welcomes on a night out on the town.

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Secret Drinker: 'It was a step away from turning into Acorn Antiques'

Why you can't beat horse brasses, good honest pub grub and Mud's Tiger Feet

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Secret Drinker ends up the only punter in the oldest gay bar in town

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Buzzing: Secret Drinker chills in a pub garden just yards from the sea

Our undercover reporter meets Harpo the hairball and a few other unwanted guests at a pub on the Kent coast.

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Inch perfect: Kent's smallest pub reopens after a 10 year wait

It all goes a bit wonky for Secret Drinker on his latest pub mission - and this time he can't blame the booze!

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