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* While not discussed much in the main books, the local pub for residents of [[Literature/TheRailwaySeries Ffarquhar, Sodor]] is a charming place called The Three Beetles. Good food and drink, good atmosphere, handy for the train station, and it even has a bowling green.

Public houses, or "pubs" are [[UsefulNotes/BritishPubs a cherished British and Irish institution]], and are rather different from North American bars (or, at least, the TV versions of said bars). They're much better lit, more comfortable, better furnished, and serve "pub grub" as well as the usual mixed drinks and pints of ale. They're open to all ages until a certain hour, and they close much earlier. [[FrothyMugsOfWater You only have to be eighteen to have alcohol]][[note]]Sixteen in the UK if ordered with a meal and a legal adult present[[/note]]. Service generally requires going up to the bar to order. The closest American equivalent is the LocalHangout.

* The Winchester in ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead''.
* And, by the same people, the pub in ''Film/HotFuzz''.
* And, yet ''again'' by the same people, a whole ''dozen'' pubs in ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'' as part of an epic pub crawl, including the eponymous The World's End. Which is not an unusually high number of pubs for an average sized town in Britain or Ireland. There are towns that could comfortably seat all the locals in their several locals.

* The White Horse, a centuries-spanning pub frequented by ComicBook/TheSandman.

* The "Crazy Cow Milk Bar" in ''WebVideo/StampysLovelyWorld'' is described to be like an "old, traditional English pub", but it [[FrothyMugsOfWater serves milk instead of alcohol]]. It even looks like an old, traditional pub, with the only weird thing in its design being the "crazy cow" face on the front of the bar.

* There are many in Creator/TerryPratchett's Literature/{{Discworld}} novels, the most well known being the 'Mended Drum' (previously known as the 'Broken Drum') in Ankh-Morpork. In books featuring the Watch, usually the featured pub is 'The Bucket' - a pub in which no one wants to go to, and because of this, has become popular amongst the Watch because there would be no fights that they would have to break up.
** And 'Biers' which is favored by Ankh-Morpork's "differently alive" community.

The owner of the pub, who holds the pub license is called the landlord or landlady, or the publican. Patrons also enjoy playing darts and snooker, watching rugby and football on TV, and testing their trivia knowledge with a pub quiz.

* The Plumber's Arms in ''Series/{{Teachers}}'' is the teachers' pub of choice (by informal agreement the students do not go in that pub while the teachers do not go in theirs). They try various other drinking venues, but always default back to the Plumber's, practically every night.

* The Drovers Arms, or "the Droves", from ''Series/AllCreaturesGreatAndSmall''.

* The Oxford Bar in the ''Literature/{{Rebus}}'' books/TV series - a real pub (not a bar...) in Edinburgh.

* The Green Dragon in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' is a Hobbitish pub in Bywater that is more or less explicitly modeled on the classic British form. This makes sense, given that the Shire generally is modeled on the English countryside Tolkien loved. The Ivy Bush, where Sam Gamgee's father is a regular, is a smaller such pub, located in Hobbiton.

-->'''Venetia Scott'': You mean going to the Lamb and Flag with you, sitting at the bar? Twinkling our ankles at every unremarkable young man in the room? Then letting those men buy us enough drinks for us to bring them home, only to have their unremarkability confirmed to us again? No, thanks.

* The Lamb and Flag from ''Series/{{Bottom}}'' (The same series also mentioned 'The Dog and Handgun')

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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Ballerina}}'', there is a scene where Felicie and Victor are dancing at an Irish pub... in 19th century PARIS.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Ballerina}}'', there is a scene where Felicie and Victor are dancing at an Irish pub... in PARIS.

* The "Crazy Cow Milk Bar" in ''WebVideo/StampysLovelyWorld is described to be like an "old, traditional English pub", but it [[FrothyMugsOfWater serves milk instead of alcohol]]. It even looks like an old, traditional pub, with the only weird thing in its design being the "crazy cow" face on the front of the bar.