8th visit of the outing: Busy as always for our early evening arrival but our party timed it just right for a table seating four. In true micropub tradition, it does not take many to fill it. Usual warm welcome and a speedy delivery of our chosen real ales.

Sixth stop of the outing: Busy as is usual for my early evening visit. Seating to be had for our party of two and the customary warm welcome and friendly and speedy service. Good banter with a local fellow real ale drinker and a former brewery drayman and where the dray, a low, flat-bed wagon without sides, pulled generally by horses or mules, was used to transport all kinds of goods and not just barrels of beer. A healthy selection of cask ales on in this ever busy little micro.

5th visit of the outing: Usual busy gathering inside this micropub almost equidistance to Broadstairs Station as Mind the Gap and for my early evening visit before catching the train back to London. Not a green hop beer in sight as not yet on site unlike at the last two stops as the green hop ales have of course only just been tapped at Gadds' and at the Four Candles this very day. However, a good 5 real ales to choose from presented. As always, friendly prompt service with a smile from the barmaid.

7th visit of the outing: Busy but not rammed for this little micro and table and high chairs to be had for our party of two. Served without delay for our early evening visit from a choice of five real ales on. It is recognised as officially the best pub in Kent, Surrey and Sussex after scooping the South East Regional Pub of the Year 2025 from the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA).

7th and final Broadstairs' visit of the day: Busy but not rammed for this little micro and closest to the station. Our party of four managed to find a table and we were all comfortably seated and served without delay for our early evening visit from a choice of four real ales on.

6th visit of the outing: This tiny friendly micropub was as usual very full at this time of early evening. Promptly served and a stool to be had. They allow you to bring the odd snack in and so a sealed ice-cream was about to float my boat along with their real ale.

Sixth and final venue visit of this outing to Broadstairs and its evirons and almost at full seating capacity in this multi-award winning micro for my early evening arrival. My two real ale enthusiasts also on the outing were by now veering back to London on their specific routes from the Four Candles and so just my faithful hound and myself remaining. I took this opportunity of congratulating the owner here on his latest award, CAMRA Pub of the Year 2025 for not just East Kent but now, as just announced, for the whole county of Kent. There was a big blackboard on display with a chalked notice upon it extolling the latest success for this micro that only started out in life in late 2021. Prompt and friendly service as always and sat with a good few and two turned out to be the retired couple who live down here now having handed over the baton of their micropub's running in SE London a few years previously. I often bump into them down here as they enjoy their real ale and made their own micro award-winning for that reason.

Not as busy early evening as it was for our last visit back in April when it was the local Gadds' Easter beer festival up the road. Squeezed in and chose from the five real ales on with relative ease. Usual warm welcome and prompt service from this multi-award winning and relatively new micropub to the area and which only opened in the autumn of 2021.

Packed for our early evening visit but some customers were just prizing their way out of this tight little micro and so a table and seats to be seized upon. The music was somewhat overpowering here after the quietness of the Four Candles where conversation rules in there and so that one gets my vote. Prompt, friendly service.

Pub no. 7. Not sure if I've been here before. Very busy.