Cider & Perry Festival at New Continental

The New Continental in Preston, Lancashire is to play host to its first ever cider and perry festival. Over sixty different ciders will be on offer from all over the UK and continental Europe. It will run from Thursday 9th July to Saturday 11th July 2009.
The format will be similar to the Continental’s beer festival [...]

Groovy outdoor film screenings @ GlastonFerret mini-festival

An outdoor film screening at a pub mini-festival? Is there a better way to spend a summer night?
The Best of Cinematopia 09 will showcase an awesome line-up of the grooviest short film, music video, animation and digital media from our past events at the outdoor Orange Peel stage. And all this with a turfed pub, [...]

Summer menu launched at New Continental

Anyone who likes a nice meal out at a good pub will appreciate the food at the New Continental, Preston.
Good news for food lovers, they’ve launched their summer menu. Here’s the detail:
With the Continental classics meeting the seasonal glory that is summer, by the way of local producers – and turning out menu winners such [...]

Suggestions for Valentine’s Day in Preston

February 14th is fast approaching and if there’s one day a year when you need to say “sod the credit crunch” this is it. For the men out there, the recession is never an excuse to cut back on ‘the most romantic day of the year’. Preston Blog has been asking its readers for their [...]

New Continental pub launches regular open mic night

The latest edition of the New Continental pub’s e-newsletter came whizzing into our inbox yesterday and there’s some great news in there:
1. The pub is building on the success of its first open mic night and will be launching a regular one. The first one is Thursday 15th January from 9 PM. All performers are [...]