Glen Inn

Nice little simple no frills pub. Broadcasts horse racing and the bookies is next door. No food is served. The staff are/​were friendly. The good thing is there aren’t many 18’s here and the atmosphere from the regulars is great. Same people in their regular spots, thin guy with the grey hair running to the bookies.

It can’t be just me who happens to love the pub that’s closest to home. The Glen Inn is on Glengormley’s Antrim Road, smack bang in the middle of the town, and within rolling distance of my house. It’s a no-​frills boozer — you’ll not find any fancy lychee martinis or foie grois parfait (or, indeed, any food at all) here… Just call in, sit at the bar and order your pint and see what happens.
The staff are all sound as a pound, and the regulars are too. Plus, you know the way that you might feel intimidated by walking into an unfamiliar pub on your own? You won’t get that here — the doors are always open, and it has something welcoming about it. Give it a bash, folks!
Incidentally, if you call in in late afternoon, and there’s a tired-​looking bespectacled bloke sitting at one of the tables, engrossed in a crossword, chances are that’ll be me.

A local for us, but not used as such that often, because we are always heading into the ‘Big Smoke’ of Belfast to meet friends or family, because they can’t drag themselves up into the ‘sticks’ more than once a year… kidding — but seriously, this is more or less on our doorstep and we don’t go in much — until we went in recently for a drink before eating out in a nearby Chinese. My husband had a pint of Guinness and I had a Southern Comfort and white lemonade — the service was good — the bar staff were friendly and we didn’t wait to long, even though the bar was very crowded with world cup folks screaming and shouting. It is a bit of a ‘lads’ pub, and there is nothing wrong with that at all — a perfect place to watch the football, or any sport they happen to be showing. Shame my husband doesn’t watch football…

Nice bar which has been recently refurbished, friendly staff