A few personal observations on the food and drink options taken during my 1st visit to the Etihad (Brugge)

Mr Grumpy said:
Before match: Pint in Mary D's.

Estrella.
Expensive, Flat, warm and served in a cardboard tumbler.

Was expecting a match day experience (bouncers, ready pours, etc,) but wasn't expecting such a scruffy and industrial setting.
Not a place I'd be looking to go to unless desperate. Must be awful on a normal night.
Disappointed.

Stadium: (pre match)
Pints: Can't remember the name lol.
Very expensive. £8?, Plastic pot, cold.
Staff slow and clumsy. Was ok. Much better than MD's but one would hope so for the price.

Stadium (half time)
Pie: Steak, 6£. Warmish.
Enjoyed the pie. It was decent quality but it wasn't hot enough and had a rubbery, microwaved texture. Bit odd.
Didn't expect to have enough time for a pie and pint at half time but somehow managed it.

Mary D's (after match).
Fool me once....

Pint: Estrella.
Perhaps the worst pint of pish I've ever had the misfortune to pay for.
Couldn't drink it. I'm still shuddering at the thought that it was the slips.
On this alone, I'll never go in there again. I've had duff pints before but this was something else. Awful.

Chippy (Next door to Mary's).

Sausage supper. Can't remember the price but not expensive.

Highlight of the night. Great place, funny staff and a lovely service and great food. Clearly they don't dumb down on match days. No wonder there were queues both before and after. Recommended.

Next time, I'll skip the pub. Really disappointed with that.

(Great night in total though ).
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The first & last time I went in that shot hole, I got a beer cordial, cloudy and a pie that gave me food poisoning, I should have reported them.
 
It’s actually mental that no one has done a worthwhile fan zone independently of the club, within a mile or so of the ground.

With the right set up, especially square footage and location, it could easy take £50k on a match day, more if the weather is ok, we win and the kick off time is optimum. Saturdays 17:30 kick offs are the best for takings in a fan zone generally, because you can theoretically get trade before and after the game and most people don’t have work in the morning.
 
snorky said:
You called? :)

SS3 had no nancy pink fruity piss cider, so I was forced to drink that Ass lager stuff,
which was also akin to cat piss.
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I’m in SS3 sorry you learnt the hard way

My match day is get to town for 11-30 get destroyed in the NQ walk to Etihad for whatever time KO

Avoid anything that remotely has been badged as “catering”

Walk back to NQ finish a good job started at 11-30 off then last train back to Vegas at 22-53hrs

Walk home and make sure I check what the score was before encountering the wife’s welcome home reception party lol
 
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