The Dark Horse

This trip to The Dark Horse was similar to my visit a few weeks before to The Bohemian. I was on my way to Shelley's Mum's in Kings Heath and I am required to change buses in Moseley. The information board in the bus shelter informed me that the bus wasn't due for thirteen minutes and this was my view from the bus stop...

Well, what's a man meant to do?!! I dodged the Moseley traffic and made my way across the road to the pub.

I had been to this pub before in its' previous carnation as The Cross but my first impression was that it had now gone a bit upmarket though maybe this may prove to be a bad move given the fact that, with the exception of two blokes stood at the bar, I was the only patron in there.

The place, disappointingly, concentrates on craft beer rather than real ale but if that's your bag then there is plenty of choice. I settled instead on an unexpectedly nice pint of Purity UBU and sat down noting that I'd got nine minutes and fifteen seconds before my bus was due !!

I'm not too sure what the pub's target market is, I think they are possibly catering for Moseley's yuppies (do yuppies still exist?!!) as the décor is very upmarket though I'm sure Laurence Llewelyn Bowen would probably describe the wallpaper as ghastly dah-ling !!

We had woken that morning to the first frost of the autumn so the choice of footwear of a woman that walked in was wholly inappropriate, opened toe sandals !! What on earth was she thinking?!! Fair play to the cold toed lady though, it was early on a Thursday night and she was tucking into a large glass of full bodied red wine !!

Two things hastened my departure, the impending bus and the fact that they started playing hard core hip hop music. I would imagine a request for a bit of Deep Purple may have fallen on deaf ears. They probably would have thought it was a new cocktail !!