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Patron, un Demi! — On France’s PMU Bars and Keeping Working-Class Spaces Alive — Pellicle It’s noon and, since it doesn’t serve food, I expect Le Mustang in Saint-Nolff, Brittany to be almost empty when I push through the doors. The place is packed regardless. Construction workers stand to...

Great to see @anahlcq.bsky.social's brilliant story on France's PMU bars getting some solid and deserved praise in this week's @boakandbailey.bsky.social roundup.

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Continuing the Friday Tripels with another favourite.

Lamb meatballs with smoked beer sounds delicious

We all want to try the tiny cans!!

This was last night just back home in Burton after a day in London. It was as good as it looks.

Paix Dieu.

Another round of these two at home . The Utopia is excellent.

A cat and a beer on a cat tree

Tried and failed to get the cat in the pic, but a very nice Third Barrel Dead as Disco WC IPA.

I'm on the long train home from London gasping for a pint, please send your Friday bev pics to the Pelli account I beg

please let me do my job 🥹

State of Kind - Neon Highway !

Tea is a good choice too

Bolt from Above by Pentrich. Not much left though

What are you drinking this evening?

Deep Inside My Heart — Hopleaf, Chicago’s Beer Bar — Pellicle 33 years after it stopped airing, Cheers still embodies the ideal of the neighbourhood bar for many Americans. The place where everybody knows your name has become such a shorthand for this imagin...

Who can resist a shout out to the Cadieux Cafe and feather bowling?

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Patron, un Demi! — On France’s PMU Bars and Keeping Working-Class Spaces Alive — Pellicle It’s noon and, since it doesn’t serve food, I expect Le Mustang in Saint-Nolff, Brittany to be almost empty when I push through the doors. The place is packed regardless. Construction workers stand to...

www.pelliclemag.com/home/2026/2/...

A new article by @anahlcq.bsky.social for Pellicle, superb reading as ever.

Patron, un Demi! — On France’s PMU Bars and Keeping Working-Class Spaces Alive — Pellicle It’s noon and, since it doesn’t serve food, I expect Le Mustang in Saint-Nolff, Brittany to be almost empty when I push through the doors. The place is packed regardless. Construction workers stand to...

“In these places, everyone has a role: the funny guy, the musician…You feel good there, seen, valued, recognized.”
— Guillaume Blot, Photographer

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There is a PMU, L’hippocampe, 20 minutes from where we are staying in Britanny in August 🤔

Patron, un Demi! — On France’s PMU Bars and Keeping Working-Class Spaces Alive — Pellicle It’s noon and, since it doesn’t serve food, I expect Le Mustang in Saint-Nolff, Brittany to be almost empty when I push through the doors. The place is packed regardless. Construction workers stand to...

"The bar PMU is the epitome of the rade. These spaces...don’t look good enough for an aesthetically pleasing Instagram feed. Their history, deeply rooted in the working class, labour struggles, and immigrant communities, is not designed for glossy consumption."

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I miss old beer/spirits/cocktail Twitter where I could say something like "all whiskey is beer turned into a whiskey," walk away, and come back to World War III, but only metaphorically.

(My favorite thing we made in brewing school was an eau de vie using a hefeweizen we ran out of time to drink.)

Fabulous top to bottom.

One reason why I spend money to support @pelliclemag.com.

This is a wonderful piece.

Patron, un Demi! — On France’s PMU Bars and Keeping Working-Class Spaces Alive — Pellicle It’s noon and, since it doesn’t serve food, I expect Le Mustang in Saint-Nolff, Brittany to be almost empty when I push through the doors. The place is packed regardless. Construction workers stand to...

PMUs are a unique French institution. Somewhere between betting shops, cafés, bars and social clubs, they exist in every town. People use them, or staunchly avoid them. Hipsters are creeping in.

@anahlcq.bsky.social tells the full story.

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There was a PMU in the mountain village where I lived in France. €10 two course menu changed daily and was always great with a glass of wine or a small beer. It was a second home to many in the area, a real hive of activity. So of course someone bought it & turned it into a crap touristy restaurant

“The idea that only the upper class can make a place attractive is nothing but class contempt dressed up as taste.”

Perfect quote right there (and the name of Bouazzouni's book is the cherry on top).

Not a huge gambling fan myself (KM) but the centrality of these bars to their local communities was really fascinating to learn about!