It is almost the end of 2022 and I cannot let the year slip by without a mention on the blog for my trusted local pub the Vat and Fiddle. We come here a lot and if I wrote about every pint we supped and every morsel we ate here then the blog could easily…
Tag: Castle Rock Pubs
Pub Lunch at the Bread and Bitter
The Bread and Bitter, another one of the excellent Castle Rock pubs in Nottingham, sits up at Mapperley Top on the Woodborough Road. It is tucked away off the main road alongside the spoons pub and is located within a former bakery I have supped a fair few pints in this pub over the years…
Pub Lunch at The Stratford Haven
The Stratford Haven on Stratford Road in West Bridgford is an excellent local pub for a pint and a bit of pub grub. I can still remember the days when the building was a pet shop as we used to go there to get stuff for our cats and dogs, that was back in the…
First Proper Pub Crawl for ages: Beer, Pie and Chips
The restrictions have been lifted and we are back to some sort of normal, so we took the afternoon off and had a good old fashioned pub crawl around some of our favorite watering holes. Mainly just because we could and also to see if we could remember what to do! 🙂 It has been…
The Pubs are Open so lets go Back to the Vat and Fiddle
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…
Several Fridays at the Vat and Fiddle
We seem to start most of our Friday nights in Town with a pint or two at the Vat and Fiddle which has been our ‘local’ or one of our ‘locals’ for many a year. Surprisingly I had only written three blog posts about the place, I hadn’t realised that until recently when I finally…
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…
Curry Night at The Embankment
On Friday night we found ourselves at the Embankment Pub down by the river having a few pints after work. It got to the point when we really needed some food before the consumption of beer got out of hand. “lets go for a curry” someone said, followed by “but the beer here is so…
Vat and Fiddle – Sauce Shop and Castle Rock Brewery Collaboration
I popped into the Vat and Fiddle Pub, the Castle Rock Brewery Tap Room, to hunt down the Brown Sauce from The Sauce Shop. The Vat is one of my locals for a Friday night beer and I am often in there getting a pint of Harvest Pale and a little bit of pub grub…
Fish and Chip Friday at the Embankment Club and Kitchen
It was Fish and Chip Friday and I found myself in The Embankment Pub by Trent Bridge looking up at a Chalkboard that was enticing me with an offer of Beer Battered Haddock with Chips for £9.95. How could I possibly resist? The Board had promised a plate of “Locally sourced Haddock fillet, hand battered…