The unquestionable mark of a really nice pub is its egalitarian spirit. The pubs we love — the pubs which have made this checklist — all share it. They’re locations the place everyone seems to be handled the identical, that can be utilized each time and nonetheless: they’re for after-work pints, for misplaced afternoons, for evenings the place the bell for final orders is met with grumbles. They’re there for quiet catch-ups with outdated mates, or Sundays with a e book, or Fridays with roaring music and dancing and photographs met with screwed-up faces. They aren’t mausoleums however museums, all the time accumulating tales, typically prompting them. That is the way it’s all the time been — a long time earlier than we had been propping up the bar, others had been in flip: laughing, arguing, catching-up, falling out, making up. Making out.