First of all, it’s not a bar. It’s a pub.  What kind of pub? It’s a family pub!  Conversation-driven, authentic food, men, women, children, and dogs are always welcome.

The word Pub is short for public house. In England and Europe, you don’t have a house as we do in the USA. They are much smaller, you have an entry, a kitchen, a bathroom, and a place to sleep so you don’t entertain 40 friends at your house. You go to the public house and you meet your friends, your coworkers, your family members, and your friends from down the street.  

It’s great quality food, hand prepared, authentic, and it’s a reasonable price so you’re not getting financially crushed. Pubs are attended for their warm atmosphere, of course, the weather in England is always like this, it’s 45 degrees and miserably, misty so you go to the pub, warm atmosphere, lots of friends, you have a pint, there’s a game on the telly, you know, and off you go.

Okay, my story personally is that three of my grandparents, my mother were born in the south prior to when my mother was born. So not quite prior to the depression, they all had to move north in the late thirties to find work in the Detroit area.

My dad’s family came over from Newcastle England in 1908, lived in Cleveland for a while where my dad was born in 1922, then because of the depression, again moved further north to Detroit. Both sides of the family met up. My grandfather from England had married my grandmother from Savannah, Georgia. I was born in 62. Growing up, all I ever heard was you got to get back to the South, get you back.

So they didn’t want to be there, their lives were like today’s immigrants. They were working here sending money back to the family in Europe. My family did that, a lot of people in this area did that. One of Dana’s grandparents moved to Detroit to find work so he could send money back home to the family.

My parents came to Gatlinburg on their honeymoon in 1957 bought property out towards Cosby in 72 when I was ten. I didn’t want to raise my kids in Detroit, I didn’t want to live in the North. I love being here, I love living here. I’d like to spend more time in the winters and somewhere else

What is your probably greatest compliment any guest has ever said to you

the compliments we get from our American visitors or who we assume are American visitors are absolutely wonderful, I mean, it makes my day. 

But, when you get people in from England that have lived in England their entire lives and they say this is the best fish and chips I’ve ever had in my life, and somebody did it yesterday Yeah. And they put it on Google reviews, that is the greatest compliment you can get. “Food brings people together. It’s humans most basic need and one of life's greatest pleasures. The ability to move people with food is my greatest pleasure and passion.”

Brian