Hospitality Is a Bloodsport
The World Famous Dive Bars blog.
“It’s Not My Job”.
Hospitality didn’t get worse—it got exposed. Teamwork still matters, but pride can’t replace clear roles, fair pay, and real leadership.
Never Ration Ice
A £9 festival drink, one cube of ice, and a lesson in how small gestures reveal big failures in modern hospitality.
How Trend-Chasing Will Gut Your Bar and Leave the Carcass Instagrammable
Bars chasing trends over authenticity end up with gimmicks, forgettable drinks, and shallow “sustainability” - real hospitality needs heart, not hashtags.
The Door Is Not the Enemy (Unless You Make It One)
In hospitality, security sets the tone. When the door feels hostile, the night suffers. Make guests feel safe - and they’ll return.
Nobody Asks for References Anymore
Skipping reference checks is undermining hospitality: bad hires slip through, trust erodes, and good staff burn out. Bringing references back matters.
Everything Falls Apart. Then It Doesn’t.
Chaos, broken systems, overflowing bins—hospitality survives on grit, luck, and staying chill. The truth behind the madness is messier than you think.
Jazz Night
Jazz, chaos, grit, and magic. A messy night that almost fell apart, but left the room alive and people wanting more.
You Can’t Afford the Revolution Anymore
Festivals and bars have lost their soul to hype and high prices. This is a call to bring back spaces where real people can actually belong.
The Trade of Missing Persons
Hospitality is a trade of missing people — the lifers are gone, the new generation won’t stay, but the magic still lingers.
Spanish Hospo
In Spain, bars feel like living rooms, not battlegrounds. While Britain polices nightlife with taxes and paranoia, Spain thrives on trust, community, and relaxed hospitality. Here’s why the Spanish get it—and we don’t.
It Is a Proper Job, Dummy
Hospitality is a proper job. It’s one of the most proper jobs there is. But somewhere along the way, this country forgot that.
Staff Legends
Hospitality doesn’t run on mission statements or bitters. It runs on people—beautiful, flawed, erratic, wildly lovable people.
Nostalgia? No, Thanks
You spend half your life trying to build something that feels real — a place with heartbeat, a bit of chaos, a bit of smoke and sweat and character — and then you stumble across a Reddit thread where a bunch of keyboard anthropologists are dissecting your soul like it’s a lab rat.
Buying a Brewery. Why?
World Famous Dive Bars is buying Good Chemistry Brewing — doubling down on Bristol beer culture when others are selling out. Real beer, real people, no bullshit.
We’re Buying Good Chemistry Brewing
World Famous Dive Bars has agreed to acquire Bristol brewery Good Chemistry Brewing, bringing one of the city’s best-known independent breweries into the World Famous family.
Why We F*ck With Local Brewers
We don’t stock local beer because it’s trendy, or because someone told us it’s “the right thing to do.” We’re not interested in playing community theatre. We f*ck with local brewers because they give a shit in a world that mostly doesn’t.
This Place Looks Like Shit — I’ll Have Two
Why the dive bar still kicks harder than most of the industry knows what to do with.
Bristol’s Late Nights Are Dying
London's after-dark identity is collapsing in slow motion. Bristol's freakshow hasn't disappeared, but the walls are closing in.