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How do British pubs work? 

Do you order at the table?
Are you expected to tip?
And when is closing time?

Hi, I'm Ali Ross, the landlady of the Coach and Horses here in London, and I will be here to help you understand what a British pub is all about.

The Coach and Horses is located in the Soho district in Central London. Many of its patrons stop by in the afternoon right after work, mainly on Thursdays or Fridays.

There's a sense of a community in a British pub.

It's a social thing where people can interact and let their hair down and relax.

It's like an extended family.

It's quit a British thing; any opportunity you can get … you go to the pub.

So, what should foreign visitors know before they go?

We often get a lot of people from, uh, typically Europe coming in and, uh, either asking for a free table or sitting down at a table and waiting to be served, and this isn't in, um, in England. Um, typically people go straight to the bar and order and then go to a table.

But what to order?

The different kinds of beer can be bewildering, as some aren't known abroad.

We'll start off with London Pride, and it's a real ale … or a hand-pulled ale. They're naturally carbonated, unlike lagers where Carbone-dioxide is put into the barrel, and they have a little bit of a biscuity, multi-finish. Uh, let's try a lager.

If people want something that's cold and refreshing and they don't want too much flavour … maybe they don't want anything that's too hop-forward, or they don't want a real ale that might be a little bit warmer, then, uh, then go for a lager for sure.

So here we have, uh, cider, a drink made from apples, the pressing and the fermentation of apples. You're drinking pints over ice; a lot of the time people like it really super cold.

Something that's very popular at the moment, um, is Guinness. It is, uh, from Dublin, of course. The flavour is, um, quite mellow for a stout, um, and the texture is a little creamy, so it's actually quite pleasant on the palate.

Beer is always ordered by the pint; one pint is just over half a litre. How many do folks typically drink?

Somewhere between six and ten, probably.

A few, but not too many; you need to know limits, I suppose.

I can be a power drinker when I want to, or I can just have a couple … like today.

Get seven or eight pints … then go for dinner somewhere.

Here are some dos and don'ts when ordering at the bar.

You definitely don't want people waving in your face; um, it can be quite rude actually, um, especially the waving of a card or money or something. So, yeah, just wait patiently for your turn, and, um, people are usually quite respectful of this in the pub.

And here's another tip. You can't just go and buy drinks for yourself; if you're in a group of people, you offer to buy a round. And if you don't, that stays with you for a long time; you are remembered as the person who doesn't do that. Yeah, and you're known as cheap …and it's bad.

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The need for warmth, shelter, food, and companionship as a meeting place is probably 2,000 years old in the format we know today; a lot of the pub we visit are probably of the Victorian era …when they probably hit their heyday. So that kind of stems from the mid 1800s...

'Pub' is short for 'public house’, meaning a place that's open to everybody.

The best thing about a pub is it's welcome to everyone. Young, old, rich, or poor, you could be the CEO of a finance bank, or you could be a guy who's been cleaning the streets. For anybody who can walk through the door and pay for a pint of beer, you can share the same space.

Also typical for a British pub, many of the regulars live nearby. And the atmosphere is informal; that's also reflected in the decor.

So typically in British pubs, you'll find a lot of wood, um, and then a mixture of textures as well, so like here we've got an Axminster carpet, um, and the carpet sort of elements and, uh, an extension of the home, somewhere that's made for comfort, um, and yeah, just a little bit more sort of familiarity maybe that you might find from your home.

Something else to note. In pubs, you generally aren't expected to tip.

A lot of our regular customers often buy the team drinks, um, uh, but I think, you know, places like America, um, the tipping policy over there is completely different to how it is here.

So, if we're offered, drink, then we'll just pop it on their bill, charge them accordingly, and just print the receipt and leave it for later, so we've got just a lot of receipts up there.

Anyone who comes to a pub should also know when it's time to go.

At 20 minutes to 11, we'll ring the bell for last orders and shout out 'last orders’ then again at 11:00 to mark the final closure, we'll ring the bell again.

Guests, um, aren't particularly always happy to leave; obviously you want to continue the party, um, but typically they'll, you know, finish up their pints promptly and be on their way.

What's it like where you live?
Where do you go to socialise?
And what do you drink while you're there?
Tell us in the comments.