The Lounge

15/10/2026

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The final showdown of Round Two is here! 🍺

Three groups down. One to go. Tonight, four more hugely popular Plymouth pubs go head-to-head for the LAST remaining place in Round Three of Plymouth’s Favourite Pub 2026:

🍺 The Ford Inn
🍺 Lounge
🍺 Millbridge
🍺 Keyham Vaults

All four fought their way through Round One. All four have loyal regulars and serious support behind them. But there’s only one place left, and tonight we find out who’s taking it.

Voting starts right now.

To vote, simply comment with the name of the ONE pub you want to win. Please make the pub name clear in your comment so we can count it accurately. One vote per person.

This is the moment to rally your regulars. Share the post, tag your mates, get it into your group chats and tell everyone who loves your pub to get their vote in. Every vote counts, and this final group could go absolutely anywhere.

When this one is decided, Round Two is complete. Our four group winners will move into Round Three, and we’ll be one step closer to crowning Plymouth’s Favourite Pub 2026.

The support throughout this competition has been brilliant. Every vote, every share and every comment has helped put Plymouth’s pubs in front of thousands of people, and you’ve still got time to make some noise for your favourite.

Huge thanks once again to The Edgcumbe Arms for supporting this year’s competition, and to everyone who has got involved so far.

Round Two, Group D. Four pubs. One final place in Round Three.

Who’s coming with us? Plymouth, let’s hear you. 🍺

14/10/2026

Vote now!

The final showdown of Round Two is here! 🍺

Three groups down. One to go. Tonight, four more hugely popular Plymouth pubs go head-to-head for the LAST remaining place in Round Three of Plymouth’s Favourite Pub 2026:

🍺 The Ford Inn
🍺 Lounge
🍺 Millbridge
🍺 Keyham Vaults

All four fought their way through Round One. All four have loyal regulars and serious support behind them. But there’s only one place left, and tonight we find out who’s taking it.

Voting starts right now.

To vote, simply comment with the name of the ONE pub you want to win. Please make the pub name clear in your comment so we can count it accurately. One vote per person.

This is the moment to rally your regulars. Share the post, tag your mates, get it into your group chats and tell everyone who loves your pub to get their vote in. Every vote counts, and this final group could go absolutely anywhere.

When this one is decided, Round Two is complete. Our four group winners will move into Round Three, and we’ll be one step closer to crowning Plymouth’s Favourite Pub 2026.

The support throughout this competition has been brilliant. Every vote, every share and every comment has helped put Plymouth’s pubs in front of thousands of people, and you’ve still got time to make some noise for your favourite.

Huge thanks once again to The Edgcumbe Arms for supporting this year’s competition, and to everyone who has got involved so far.

Round Two, Group D. Four pubs. One final place in Round Three.

Who’s coming with us? Plymouth, let’s hear you. 🍺

14/10/2026

Getting voting guys the lounge 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🍻🍻🍻

Vote now!

The final showdown of Round Two is here! 🍺

Three groups down. One to go. Tonight, four more hugely popular Plymouth pubs go head-to-head for the LAST remaining place in Round Three of Plymouth’s Favourite Pub 2026:

🍺 The Ford Inn
🍺 Lounge
🍺 Millbridge
🍺 Keyham Vaults

All four fought their way through Round One. All four have loyal regulars and serious support behind them. But there’s only one place left, and tonight we find out who’s taking it.

Voting starts right now.

To vote, simply comment with the name of the ONE pub you want to win. Please make the pub name clear in your comment so we can count it accurately. One vote per person.

This is the moment to rally your regulars. Share the post, tag your mates, get it into your group chats and tell everyone who loves your pub to get their vote in. Every vote counts, and this final group could go absolutely anywhere.

When this one is decided, Round Two is complete. Our four group winners will move into Round Three, and we’ll be one step closer to crowning Plymouth’s Favourite Pub 2026.

The support throughout this competition has been brilliant. Every vote, every share and every comment has helped put Plymouth’s pubs in front of thousands of people, and you’ve still got time to make some noise for your favourite.

Huge thanks once again to The Edgcumbe Arms for supporting this year’s competition, and to everyone who has got involved so far.

Round Two, Group D. Four pubs. One final place in Round Three.

Who’s coming with us? Plymouth, let’s hear you. 🍺

08/10/2026

05/10/2026

Birthday best wishes to our Charlotte Pidsley 🎂🥂🎂 love all us girls and Lizzie at the lounge x

26/09/2026

Last Sunday of the month means music time 🎼🎸🎼at the lounge
4-6 the amazing talented Christian sleep returns to entertain us 🍻

11/09/2026

Omg thank you everyone love the lounge team and Liz waters 🍻

🏆 Group E is done, and that brings the first week of Plymouth’s Favourite Pub 2026 to a close!

The Lounge takes the win and becomes the fifth pub through to the last 16! 🍻

They now join The Brook Inn, The Hyde Park, The Kings Head and The Dolphin in the knockout stages.

🥇 The Lounge: 301 votes
🥈 The Bull and Bush: 212 votes
🥉 The Crown & Anchor: 161 votes

That’s 674 valid unique votes across Group E.

The voting was incredibly strong across all three pubs, but The Lounge came out on top with just under 45% of the final vote.

The post itself generated an enormous 724 comments, 55 shares and 45,578 views!

That makes Group E one of the biggest responses of the competition so far! As always, the results are processed using TrueParse, the software I built for last year’s competition, with the final count also sense-checked using AI.

A massive congratulations to The Lounge, and a huge thank you to The Bull and Bush and The Crown & Anchor for getting involved.

And as I keep saying, being knocked out of this competition doesn’t make any of these pubs any less worth supporting.

The whole point of Plymouth’s Favourite Pub is to celebrate the city’s pubs, get people talking about them and hopefully introduce a few people to somewhere they haven’t tried before.

If one of these is your local, keep supporting it. And if you’ve never visited one of them, perhaps now’s the time. ❤️

And that is week one complete with five groups down and five pubs through.

The first five voting posts have now generated a combined 185,028 views. That’s more than 185,000 views in the first week alone, with another 11 first-round groups still to come before we even reach the knockout stages.

🤝 Want your business alongside Plymouth’s Favourite Pub 2026?

We’re still looking for the right local business to partner with the competition.

Something genuinely relevant to Plymouth’s pubs, hospitality or nights out. Taxi companies, breweries, drinks distributors, glassware suppliers and other businesses that make sense alongside the competition would be a natural fit.

If that sounds like you, drop me a message.

For everyone else, we’re taking a night off tomorrow.

🍺 Plymouth’s Favourite Pub 2026 returns on Sunday at 8pm with Group F.

See you then.

I'm going for a pint 😉

11/09/2026

Let’s give this a push guys 🍻

🏆 Plymouth’s Favourite Pub 2026 – Round One, Group E

We’re into Group E, minus of course The Three Crowns who have decided to withdraw.

Tonight’s three pubs are:

🍺 The Bull and Bush
🍺 The Crown & Anchor
🍺 The Lounge

Three names, three sets of regulars, three very different reasons why people might love them.

Only one can take the group and secure a place in the final 16.

If your favourite is here, don’t assume somebody else will vote for it. Get involved, cast your vote and give it the best chance of going through.

Voting is open now.

Who gets your vote in Group E? 🍻

64 pubs. One winner.

10/09/2026

Tap on the link guys or votes don’t count 🍻🤞🏼

🏆 Plymouth’s Favourite Pub 2026 – Round One, Group E

We’re into Group E, minus of course The Three Crowns who have decided to withdraw.

Tonight’s three pubs are:

🍺 The Bull and Bush
🍺 The Crown & Anchor
🍺 The Lounge

Three names, three sets of regulars, three very different reasons why people might love them.

Only one can take the group and secure a place in the final 16.

If your favourite is here, don’t assume somebody else will vote for it. Get involved, cast your vote and give it the best chance of going through.

Voting is open now.

Who gets your vote in Group E? 🍻

64 pubs. One winner.

10/09/2026

The votes are now up and live has to be on this post to count

🏆 Plymouth’s Favourite Pub 2026 – Round One, Group E

We’re into Group E, minus of course The Three Crowns who have decided to withdraw.

Tonight’s three pubs are:

🍺 The Bull and Bush
🍺 The Crown & Anchor
🍺 The Lounge

Three names, three sets of regulars, three very different reasons why people might love them.

Only one can take the group and secure a place in the final 16.

If your favourite is here, don’t assume somebody else will vote for it. Get involved, cast your vote and give it the best chance of going through.

Voting is open now.

Who gets your vote in Group E? 🍻

64 pubs. One winner.