{"id":39,"date":"2009-06-10T18:19:48","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T01:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/blog\/?p=39"},"modified":"2010-04-01T16:32:35","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T23:32:35","slug":"old-toad-english-pub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/10\/old-toad-english-pub\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Toad English Pub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoPlainText\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New\">The men\u2019s group at our church often meet at the Old Toad Pub on Thursday evenings, so we were curious to know what it was like.<span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Late Saturday afternoon, we drove into Rochester to have dinner in the Old Toad English Pub.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New\"><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>There were few people in the pub at that hour, which is the way we like it.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>We found a booth where my guide dog and we could fit comfortably and perused the brew list.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Dave chose a draft London Pilsner brew and I went with the draft heffavison.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New\"><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Dave said his fish fry and chips were good and I really enjoyed my roast beef on baguettes with horse radish sauce and chips.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I would warn you, though.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>The horse radish sauce is plentiful and hot enough to bring tears to my eyes and clear my sinuses.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New\"><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The only thing that marred my dinner was the thought that we\u2019d parked in a little lot off Gardner Street marked \u201cTow Away zone\u201d.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I\u2019m glad I didn\u2019t dwell on the topic, as our car was right where we left it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New\"><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>I suspect the Old Toad got full of people and noisy later that evening, however, we enjoyed our early dinner, listening to the waitresses and waiters chatter in British English, as we soaked up the ambiance of an old English pub.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New\">The Old Toad Pub &#8211; 277 Alexander Street 112 0 Rochester, NY 14607-1943; 585-232-2626<span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The men\u2019s group at our church often meet at the Old Toad Pub on Thursday evenings, so we were curious to know what it was like.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Late Saturday afternoon, we drove into Rochester to have dinner in the Old Toad English Pub.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There were few people in the pub at that hour, which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}