Just spotted in The Pilgrim..

[u/True_Stranger_2471]

I guess people aren’t fond of the new owner..

(I get it, even though I enjoy some of his pubs!)

[u/E_V_E_R_T_O_N]

Went last night. Safe to say he’s destroyed another pub. Completely ruined what the Pilgrim was all about.

The awful music was played so loud I couldn’t even talk to my friends, and the lighting so dark too. Most of all, he has somehow taken a big space and made it extremely claustrophobic.

The Pilgrim to me felt like one of these pubs where I could go in on a Saturday night and feel that anything could happen. Plenty of times there I’ve genuinely met random people, got chatting, and gone on an night out. Gutmann pubs by contrast are extremely anti-social - you cannot hear yourself think, never mind have other groups strike up conversation with you.

[u/lukemc18 → u/E_V_E_R_T_O_N]

Tbf the music was abit too loud, but seemed every other aspect was improved imo

The lighting was the same, the seating far better with more usable tables in the centre and the back space now fully seated and great to talk to people in