I could tell that he was being sarcastic, and to be honest, his sarcasm wasn't exactly misplaced.
I wasn't sure about what I had been expecting from a place called 'The Drane's Arms', I was even less sure about what I had been expecting from a place that had been built at the bottom of a megacity right next to the core of a planet.
I probably should have been expecting a dive bar. If I had been expecting a dive bar, I probably wouldn't have been as disappointed as I was feeling in the moments after I walked through the doors of the pub.
As an Englishman, I was used to a very certain sort of pub.