It has been a while since we took a trip to the end of the line on the Tram so we rode up to Hucknall to see what we could find for supper. It turned out that The Pilgrim Oak was the place to be on a Friday night. The pub name is apparently linked to Lord…
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The Company Inn by the Nottingham Canal another Wetherspoons affair
The Company Inn is based in the large and imposing Trent Navigation Company warehouse on the north bank of the Nottingham Canal, the one that you can see from the bridge crossing that has the big British Waterways sign on the top. It is the last in the line of pubs that span that stretch between…
The Griffin at Plumtree – Roast Beef Yorkshire Pudding Wrap? Oh go on then
As I walked into The Griffin I was loving the chalkboard action on the pavement. The last time I ventured over this way all I saw was an offer of Sunday Lunch and an occasional bout of Fish and Chips. Today though I was seeing a whole weeks worth of offering from Pies on Tuesday,…
The Hawksley – Hamburger and a Pint
The Hawksley on Derby Road is another one of the Nottingham City Centre pubs that features part of the cave system. It is right next to the Hand and Heart pub which we have visited before that has a restaurant inside the caves. Here at the Hawklsey the pub kind of adjoins the sandstone and there…
Grosvenor Pub Grub – All Day Breakfast
The Grosvenor Pub at 291-293 Mansfield Road has quite some history behind it. A pub has been on this corner since the early part of the 19th Century when it was known as the Blacks Heads Inn. In 1873 it was renamed the Grosvenor Hotel when it was bought by John Robinson who was the founder…
Ye olde trip to jerusalem sandwiches
The Trip or the ‘ye olde trip to jerusalem’ is one of the classic ‘go to’ pubs in Nottingham for your visitor in search of some historical pub action. It certainly has all the attractions for the tourist with cavernous rooms, the cursed galleon and the chair that if you sit on it you supposedly become pregnant. As…
White Horse Pub and Kitchen in Ruddington
The White Horse in Ruddington has recently been refurbished and re-launched as The White Horse Inn and Kitchen, a ‘family gastro pub’ . I had not been into the old White Horse that much in the past, but when I had frequented it I would have described it as ‘comfortably scruffy’ and ‘somewhere to get a…
Friday night at Fellows, Morton, and Clayton for a Club Sandwich – “A proper club sandwich”
This Friday I just needed a decent pint and a solid and reliable Club sandwich. I wasn’t in the mood to take any chances so I headed over to Fellows, Morton, and Clayton by the canal where I knew that I would find what I was looking for. The first two items in the Sandwich section…
The Orange Tree in Nottingham – Friday night sandwiches
The Orange Tree on Shakespeare street in Nottingham City Centre is part of the Orange Tree Group and one of seven pubs in the region, the others being located in Loughborough and Leicester. This pub is a regular watering hole on the Friday night myfoodhunt pub crawl around Nottingham and can be relied on provide a decent pint of Harvest…
South Bank Bar – Searching for a classic Club Sandwich and meeting the All-In-One
The South Bank bar in Nottingham is located as it’s name suggests on the South Bank of the River Trent on the Southern End of Trent Bridge We used to frequent this bar on a fairly regular basis especially on a Friday lunchtime when we used to nearly always have the club sandwich. It was a really good…