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…
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The Toll Bar – A Friendly Welcome, Real Ale and Pieminister Pies
The Toll Bar is the latest resident of the pub space at Tollhouse Hill by the big roundabout that joins up Maid Marian Way, Derby road and Lower Parliament Street. It has been back open about a couple of weeks now and it is offering up Real Ales, Pieminister Pies, and 200 degrees coffee…
Nottingham Beer Festival 2017- Some food I ate whilst drinking the beer :-)
The Robin Hood Beer and Cider Festival 2017 is being held again up at the Castle over this weekend. I like to pop in early in the week to try out the beer and some of the food on offer so we visited on Wednesday night and all day Thursday 🙂 There is so much…
The Flying Circus Pub in Newark – Nice Spot with Local Beers
The Flying Circus Pub was a great find on our recent the pub bimble around Newark. Martin is looking particularly keen to get inside and check out the claim on the chalkboard that they have “Newark’s Largest Range of Beer” So was I but you know the post needed a picture 🙂 On their website…
Newark Beer Festival – Beer, Burgers, Sausage Rolls, and Pork Pies
The Newark Beer and Cider Festival was held on the 26-28th May at the Riverside Park in, erm well surprisingly enough, in Newark. This was serious stuff, we even joined CAMRA beforehand so that we could get some extra tokens and stuff. More about that in a later post! 🙂 So anyway we popped along…
A Fish and Chips Friday at The Trent Navigation
The Trent Navigation on Meadow Lane just steps from the Canal and from Notts County is the home of the Navigation Brewery and one of the local landmark pubs in the area. It is a great place to meet up for a pint before a home match and is even a place to meet up before heading off for…
The Crafty Crow – A right proper boozer with Pub Food and Real Ale – Another Fish and Chips Friday
The Crafty Crow in Nottingham up by the entrance to the Castle is one of those pubs that you really should go to more often. I myself am an infrequent visitor even when I am in town, but I feel that I do not do, or have not done, this place enough justice with the count of steps I…
The Bread and Bitter – Great Beer, Classic Pub Grub and a little Caribbean flair
Handmade Burger at The Bread and Bitter The last couple of weeks or so I have found myself supping my beer on a Friday night at The Bread and Bitter up on Mapperley Top. This is a totally different part of Nottingham for me to hang out in and a welcome change, brought about partly from the…
Breakfast at The Crafty Crow – Great Pub, Great Food
The Crafty Crow up on Friar Lane is a great real ale and craft beer pub. It is the tap house for the Magpie Brewery so you should expect to see a good selection of their beers, but you can also expect to find a really good selection from all across the country. They also…
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…
Nottingham Beer Festival 2014 – A great day of beer and food
We are really looking forward to the Nottingham Beer Festival which starts this Wednesday evening at the Castle. So much so we looked back to what we found last year. I can’t wait!