T/S: Fancyapint vs Beer in the Evening

I didn't know FAP existed until 10 seconds ago - I thought it was an acronym invented by ILX. I've used Beer in the Evening quite a lot for planning pub crawls, and I think I even reviewed a few pubs, but (like the Time Out guide to pubs in London I bought a couple of years ago) a lot of the info is irrelevant to me - I don't care how many real ales there are, I'll be drinking lager; I don't care if they serve food, if I wanted to eat I'd go to a restaurant. I want to know if there's a pool table, if they show the football and if so on how many screens and is the volume turned up, how long will it take me to get served, will I get a seat, will the pub be full of goths, will anyone try to kick my head in.

The only thing I've ever used Beer In The Evening for is looking up pubs outside of London. However, I don't like it as much - the often contradictory reader reviews are disorienting. FAP is obviously biased, but at least it wears its bias on its sleeve. You know where you are with FAP. BITE is like a Steering Committee that cannot steer.

Kate OTM. I can usually work out whether or not I am going to like a pub based on FAP's descriptions, even if I don't agree with their ratings. BITE is all over the place.

I tend to use out-of-context BITE reviews as a wind-up tactic whenever someone from my department suggests going to some loud bar - "Look, someone has described this as the pit of hell..."

As some of the people I work with are the types to pass on (and believe) every spammy email circular they receive, exposing them to random web opinion works a treat.

i agree with kate and ricky, also BITE used to be slow as a bastard (haven't used it in ages) and (and) they used to use multimap not streetmap i'm sure...