Bundobust - restaurant, pub or bar?

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Quick question: would you describe Bundobust it as a restaurant, pub, or bar?

I ate at their Leeds location this weekend (great food btw) and it is mapped as a pub - which I found a bit strange, but has been that way for 11 years.

Looking at their other locations, they are tagged as restaurants. Except for the Liverpool location which is erroneously mapped twice - once as a restaurant and once as a bar. I say erroneously as even if the intention was to tag twice to show there is a bar and a restaurant (which I don’t think is really the best way to do it) they’re in slightly different places.

Would anyone object if I mapped them all as restaurants for consistency?

Locations from their website: Locations : Bundobust

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I’d personally go for restaurant.

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From the outside (never been in), the Leeds one looks like it could pass for bar, fast_food restaurant, or maybe cafe or pub. It’s certainly not a traditional “pub” in the normal sense. I wouldn’t object to restaurant.

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Have never heard of them but the key question to qualify as a pub or bar is can I walk in and drink beer all evening without ordering food?

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You can actually do that at some quite expensive restaurants like here, and to classify that as just a pub would be wrong, I think. Most people in the bar are having a drink before their restaurant table is ready, but they absolutely do also serve thirsty people with no intention of ordering food.

To go back to Bundobust, a somewhat similar one (albeit perhaps more of a destination rather than “passers by on a night out”) is The Indian Brewery near Snow Hill in Birmingham, which is mapped as a bar (not wrong, but the alternatives wouldn’t be wrong either).

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So I think you actually could here which is, I guess, why it has been tagged as a bar. They also offer take-away beverages but I wouldn’t consider it an off-licence.

As the website describes, it’s going for the “Indian Street Food & Craft Beer” vibe but within its own building. There’s a maître d’ who assigns you a table but then you order at the counter. They have a full hot food menu, rather than a beer menu with bar snacks, but have a brewery and their own beers.

Edit: there is no bar to stand at or bar stools to sit on. It’s all tables.

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Skirting around the point - name…. If it’s a food pub / restaurant that sounds trad or just casual (and more than a bit brasserie/brewery/can be beers boozy) it’s OK to grab (some say claim with tenuous grounds) “pub” with serves food:yes. If the same has cut “going there for beers only” even to 1% of trade from over 25% but been going generations the whole local older pool of people from quite a long way away will insist: “pub” though most say “well, gastropub these days”. I have no reservations if well below 1% so no active bar stools to recognise as restaurant & has to be with locals say-so such is the attachment to our common ag lab part payment in beerhouse beer!