The Cross Keys on Byard Lane in Nottingham is run these days by the Redcat Pub Company who have pubs all over the country and in Nottinghamshire alone they also host Copper (in Mapperley and the city), Tom Browns Brasserie, Waterside Bar & Kitchen, and The Prince Rupert It is not one of my regular…
Tag: Real Ale Pubs in Nottingham
Vat and Fiddle: Fish and Chip Friday
The Vat and Fiddle launched their new menu recently and I was truly delighted to see that they had included ‘Homemade Fish & Chips‘ as one of their Main Meals Finally I can write up a proper Fish and Chip Friday post from the Vat and Fiddle in Nottingham. In the past I have half…
Sunday Lunch at the Lincolnshire Poacher
The Lincolnshire Poacher is a cracking pub and one of the best real ale pubs in Nottingham. It is located a short 10-15 minute walk away from the centre and used to be one of the classic locations on a Pub crawl up Mansfield Road. Over the years many of the pubs on that crawl…
Pub Grub at Sir John Borlase Warren
The Sir John Borlase Warren up at Canning Circus is a great pub for a pint and along with it’s neighbours The Falcon Inn, The Good Fellow George and The Organ Grinder one of several in the near vicinity to make a good pub crawl It was on one such beer bimble that we found…
Game Casserole at the Lincolnshire Poacher
I love visiting the Lincolnshire Poacher on Mansfield Road. It has an excellent beer selection and serves some really great food. It is a proper pub with lots of different rooms and spaces to sit in, so you get a real mixture of people drinking there and each find their own spot in the pub…
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 Navigation: Friday night out for Pub Grub and Real Ale
The Navigation Inn on Wilford Street lies right next to the Castle Gate Lock and on the city side of the bridge over the canal. This Friday we were hunting around for somewhere to grab a bit of food and a pint, and remembered this place so we came along to see if we could…
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…
Fish and Chip Friday at the Cock and Hoop
Back in March we had been at the Cock and Hoop having a Sunday Lunch (read more here) and I had commented that we should check out one of their other Winner Winner Tenner Dinner offers So tonight it was a chance to make up for lost time and to get this chomping show firmly…
Pub Grub at the Canal House: Memories of many meals scoffed
The Canal House is a place that has featured a lot on the blog over the years. The first post being back in 2013, the last until today was 2018, but I can assure that we have eaten and drunk here a lot more times since then. I started working on this post way before…