A beer-loving vicar has vowed to return to a bar that refused him entry for wearing sandals - insisting they "do great mojitos".
The Rev Andrew Dotchin was trying to get into The Wine Bar in Ipswich town centre after celebrating Easter Sunday at a beer festival.
However, doormen turned him away for health and safety reasons - saying sandal-wearing drinkers were not allowed in on busy nights after a man sliced his foot on glass.
The father of three, who conducted several church services earlier in the day, was forced to finish the night at Vodka Revolution instead.
The 59-year-old said: "It was Easter Sunday and I had done six church services and I had finished Lent - I only have one pint a day during Lent.
"I thought 'Christ has risen, let's have a pint'.
"So I went to a beer festival with my brother and some friends and had three or four pints and we decided to go to the wine bar for a last drink.
"The man on the door said no flip flops in here and I said 'You've got to be kidding? Trust me, I'm a vicar'.
"But I'd love to go back, they do great mojitos."
The vicar says he is "infamous" for only ever wearing sandals all year old, joking that socks are "an instrument of the devil".
"There are no pictures of people wearing socks in heaven," he added.
The son of a Royal Navy submariner, he added on a more serious note: "I went to boarding school where we could only change our socks on Mondays and Thursdays, we all nearly had foot rot. So ever since then I've said no to socks
"But there is a religious aspect too. I live with the simple things and when my feet get cold it helps me to remember those who can't afford socks and shoes."
The vicar of Whitton, St Mary and St Botolph Parish said he has a close relationship with his parish, who he is able to "laugh and cry with".
A spokesman for The Wine Bar said: "We don't have a problem with sandals but it was a busy night and it wasn't worth the risk after the incident that happened recently.
"We would welcome him back on a night which isn't so busy."
