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High St, Prestatyn, Clwyd LL19 9BB
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SO kids in pubs aren't necessarily everybody's cup of tea, let alone glass of slurping orange squash. But wasn't it part of the reasoning behind the slackening of the licensing laws, an attempt to drag us into a more continental approach to our pubs and bars?
Where food is an essential part of the offering, and children are welcomed with open arms rather than at best being merely tolerated, at worst being treated like rabid dogs at the kitchen door.
OK, so to have somebody else's spoilt brat screeching in your lughole mightn't be your idea of a fun night out. Nor mine.
But if we were to adopt an approach more on French or Spanish lines, where youngsters regularly accompany their parents to the local, then we might yet get to a more tolerant situation where kids are often seen but rarely heard.
Offa's Tavern appears to be stretching out towards this burgeoning clientele of parents who either take the kids with them or stay at home.
Situated at the bottom of Prestatyn's High Street, it's named after Offa's Dyke, built in the eighth century to keep us marauding Welsh at bay, and alongside which a long distance footpath snakes 170 miles from these parts to Chepstow.
The place is bopping with youngsters as I enter, many grinning through ketchup-stained cheeks as they tuck into typical pub fare from the tome-like kids' menu.
Others cuddle up to games machines, while some eye up vending machines selling everything from small toys to jelly beans.
Their parents sit contentedly nearby, enjoying late afternoon coffees or quick snifters to set them up for the night in front of the telly.
Situated next to the railway station, virtually on the platform, Offa's Tavern is a pub that does well out of transients, people stopping briefly while on their way elsewhere. It's much the same as many a port pub.
Many are looking for a quick and inexpensive fix to their hunger pangs, achieved by means of the roast of the day (£4.95), or chalked-up specials that today include minted lamb baguette (£3.99), tortellini (£5.95) or cheeseburger and chips (£5.75).
Although humming to accents that wouldn't seem overly out of place on Merseyside, the pub is bedecked in Red Dragon flags.
Among the Welsh drinks it peddles are Cardiff's Brains SA on hand-pull, with Taffy Apples cider and Tomos Watkins' Cwrw'r Haf and Magic Lagyrcorr nestling in bottles in the fridge. The more conventional lager on draught includes San Miguel and Kronenbourg.
I opt for a 500ml bottle of Magic Lagyr - its eccentric spelling due to its brewers using Welsh rules of orthography. It proves palatable enough, even if a bit insipid.
But, that said, I'm not your natural lager drinker. Nor lagyr drinker, even.
