I confess that this post is a little bit self indulgent and only really written to post the moments when me and my mate Martin finally got to meet for a beer some 6 months since our last outing down the pub The pubs are finally back open, well open outside anyway so we can…
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Yarn Bar – Pizza, Beer, and Sunday Lunch
Yarn Bar is located inside the Theatre Royal and is one of the many and ever growing establishments being run by Castle Rock Brewery. Food wise they have a small menu featuring mostly pizza and a few small plates. In the midweek at lunch you can get a pint and a sandwich for £7.95 and…
A Bowl of Chilli at the Vat and Fiddle – Classic Pub Food
The Vat and Fiddle on Queens Bridge Road in Nottingham is one of my favourite boozers in Nottingham. I have been supping a pint or three here about as long as the Castle Rock Brewery has been filling the place up with barrels of beer. It has been our traditional Friday night starting point for…
Fox and Grapes in Sneinton Market – Beer and Pizza
The Fox and Grapes in Sneinton Market is one of the latest pubs to open up in Nottingham under the Castle Rock Brewery umbrella. This particular opening back in September was most welcome as it saw the re-emergence of a Public House that has been located at this spot since the 1830’s. In recent times…
The Embankment Club and The Dispensary – Beer? Breakfast? Pizza? It is all good!
Back in August I last wrote about The Embankment Club near Trent Bridge when I came in for Castle Rock Beer and Pub Food. At that time it was in mid transformation and they were still renovating the place to add a new bar and additional restaurant space. Now those rooms have opened and we have been back…
The Vat and Fiddle – Excellent Beer and some Good Pub Grub
The Vat and Fiddle is the tap house of the Castle Rock Brewery and I would describe it simply as a proper pub serving proper beer. I have been treading the boards of this excellent Castle Rock pub for many a year and it has become one of our regular meeting up spots, basically our regular Friday night…
Sunday Lunch at The Embankment on Trent Bridge
The Embankment on Arkwright Street just a few minutes stroll from Trent Bridge has recently been taken over by Castle Rock Brewery. As a devotee of the beers served by the Castle Rock Brewery this news was music to my ears, and salivations, or is it salutations? to my taste buds. I can remember coming…
Lincolnshire Poacher – Great Beer, Good Food and Today a little ‘Meatball Mania’
The Lincolnshire Poacher on Mansfield Road is such a mainstay in the real pub scene of Nottingham that it is hard to remember that it has only been open for around 25 years. In former times it was known as the Old Grey Nags Head, a former Shipstones pub, that was closed in the late…
The Canal House Bar and Resturant – “Nice homemade Venison Burger”
As you walk along Carrington Street over the canal and past the excellent Picnic Basket if you look right along the waterway you will see a couple of canal boats moored up outside the back entrance of the Canal house bar and resturant. Then as you walk around onto to Canal Street and into the pub you cross…
Hunting Harvest Pale on the “Route to Real Ale”
There was some stuff and nonsense flying around that there was going to be so much snow descending from the heavens that we were not going to be able to get out into the city centre to track for beer along the Route to Real Ale. I checked in with my partner in crime and there…