Bakers Arms, Norwichback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
who 8 my doughnut? Big Wino Publican
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which pub you longwinding about m8?
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Feel I ought to return again and clear things up once more, as we've since returned to the Quebec Tavern to find it a completely different -and pleasant- experience. I know then that this review of sorts should then be on their page, but seeing as I slated it here (thinking originally that I was referring to the Baker's Arms, then I should keep the correction on the same page.
Since my original review in '07, the smoking ban has obviously come in, forcing most proactive pubs to spend a lot on renovations (esp. outdoors). The Quebec was one of these. Now they have a small sheltered smoking come barbeque area outside, but have also spent a lot upgrading their toilets to an excellent standard.
The pub had the horse racing on when we visited and it was clear by the sheer volume of racing memorabilia adorning every spare inch of wall that the owners and enthusiastic locals are keen horsey lovers. If I recall rightly (which has been debatable given my past record!) there was a lot of Quebec team info and photos on their noticeboard amongst the gee-gee stuff, for their footy/pool/darts etc teams.
Actually yes, just recalled there's definitely a darts team as a search a while back came up with the Quebec being one of surprisingly only a few in a small Norwich league (and another close by - possibly The Jubilee?)
A few old boys got chatting to us during our whistle-stop half-and-out-again pit-stop on our way into the city - I think we might have been about to watch the Gas Hill Gasp (just round the corner) which is coming up this Friday so nearly exactly a year ago then! And from what I remember I had the choice of a proper ale this time, so all in all a completely different experience and one that makes us want to return.
What I wrote in '07 was accurate - if written for the wrong pub name - but it's certainly out of date now and so I felt I had to correct matters. Sorry for the confusion, people. Pop in their sometime. I'm sure there was some enticing food deal on their chalk board too.
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Alice_RW:
Oops! Yes, you're right, I did get my pubs mixed up! I was thinking of the Quebec Tavern! I'm pretty certain I never got to try the Baker's Arms before it shut, sadly. I apologise for upsetting you regarding a pub you (and others) clearly held dearly.
I only discovered my mistake last night, when the missus had insisted on checking on the net for the BA's whereabouts (before we headed out to a pub that didn't exist anymore) after not recognising it on a stylised Woodforde's Pub Stops of Norwich map we've got (it's a few years old). She came on here and I then recognised your quotes of mine! I see from the Google Maps link on here and via the Street View, that there's a couple of houses with a bricked-up frontage, as if it was a shop or pub previously, to the left of the chip shop on St Leonard's. I have vague recollections of there being a (closed-down) pub on this spot - I take it this is where it was.
I will however, take my right to reply on your character assassination. I take great offence at the line "...probably because you've spent too much time in trendy wine bars and forgotten what a good pub is!" Let's be clear: what I reported on, I saw. I just got the name of the pub wrong. I know a good pub and a bad pub when I see one. And I detest trendy wine bars and the w*nkers they attract. I've walked past the QT a fair few times since, on my way into the city for a night out, and haven't felt any desire to see if things have changed in there. There's plenty of better choices desperate for my patronage.
Also, you may have overlooked the clue to my character in my choice of username: GingerBear. The ginger bit is obvious, the bear (aside being a reference to how hairy I am) is a nod to the Norfolk pronunciation of beer, such is my love of both proper beer and the Norfolk way. So don't misread me on the 'not from round 'ere' bit either. I'm as East Anglian as they come; born in Essex, briefly lived in Norfolk, grew up in Suffolk, now living in Norfolk again.
Oh and last night? We ended up nipping down a lovely local, The Cottage.
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its closed and soon to be a private house.
its a shame lil pubs like this are closing down.
7/10 for the old times.
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This pub is still shut. It's a shame, but it is a victim of the decline of the good old "local", spent many years in here with david and Maureen, Owen and Dot etc.
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Boarded up again, it has not done any good since Steve & Francine left, It also used to be a good pub when Owen kept it to.
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Visited on a saturday afternoon and there were about 2 people there. no ales on. its nice location means that a lot of people wouldn't ever know it existed.
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I think that you must have your pubs confused there, because this discription definately does not fit the pub that I go to! "Full of old couples ready for their Saturday night down the local", "I was lumbered with half a crappy tasting John Smiths. Probably plenty fine if you're 40+ and live local." I'm only 18 and my boyfriend is 19 and we find the beer and atmosphere to be great, so your stereotypes are obviously mistaken, probably because you've spent too much time in trendy wine bars and forgotten what a good pub is!
We have been visiting this pub for a fair few months now and from the moment we first went in out of the blue the reception that we received was brilliant, and our friends who aren't from "round 'ere" say the same!
What's more, on top of the great beer and friendly landlords the food it amazing!
So overall I think that your review is unjust and I challange anyone to go into The Baker's Arms and not find it warm and friendly place to be!
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Popped in this pub on a Saturday evening on our way home from the footy at the end of this season. Definite locals pub; heads turned as we came in and we weren't recognised. Full of old couples ready for their Saturday night down the local - the karaoke was just starting up as we got there. No choice at the bar, so I was lumbered with half a crappy tasting John Smiths. Probably plenty fine if you're 40+ and live local. Nobody wanted to talk to us (we sat at the bar not tucked in a corner), but that's probably because we 'don't come from round 'ere'...
#APOLS IF THIS DOUBLE-POSTS, BUT IT DIDN'T GO UP FIRST TIME, SO I'M JUST TRYING AGAIN#
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