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Okay localish pub not far from Cambridge North station and the footlball ground. Can be a bit Jeremy and Jemima bringing little Jocasta and Julian out for lunchykins though. Ale was drinkable.
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Milton Brewery pub with a decent range of Milton ales, guests and a few ciders. It's a 2 room pub with a small garden and car/cycle park at the rear. It does feel a bit 'spit and sawdust' and service didn't seem the most attentive. The clientele are mixed. Milton ales were Nero, Pegasus, Sparta, Justinian & Marcus Et Aurelius. Guests were Spitting Feathers Special Ale, Lincoln Green Spring Green & Buffy's Norfolk Terriers. Ciders were Crones Cider, Dudda's Tun Cheery Old Dudda, Pickled Pig New Season Porker & Farmer Jim's Copper Top. I quite liked this pub. But I think Milton's other Cambridge (not sure if they're the only two) was better.
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If this pub was refurbished 18 months ago I hate to think what it was like before. Bare floorboards, bare bench seating around the walls, worn-out tables dirty and sticky did not give me confidence to try the food and the barstaff, although polite, did not inspire. At least there was a good range of ales with five from the Milton Brewery and three guests. My pint of Milton Pegasus was perfectly acceptable and priced at a very reasonable £3 so not all was bad. My visit here was made with reference to the Good Beer Guide and Whatpub.com and I therefore expected rather better but unfortunately left rather disappointed highly unlikely to return.
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First visit since I worked next door (25 years ago) and an instant classic; if a little quiet on Sunday evening. Feels similar to the Devonshire in style, beer and food range, perhaps the customer base is a bit wider though ! Nice ska playing; not sure about the live music arrangements. Milton beers good not great yet.
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Great newly reopened pub with a REAL community feel. ( pub quiz, stitch and bitch, pudding club etc)
Nice beer garden , excellent wine and beer. Fantastic authentic pizzas and great friendly staff. well done and good luck for the future.
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Changed hands recently and is a bit better. Still seems to be a work in progress - toilets and cleaning need attention, service a bit "quirky" or slipshod depending how you look at it. Getting there, though, so probably worth a look in a few weeks.
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Wonderful transformation carried out with sympathy to the exterior features and nostalgic items of decor. Great beers served by enthusiastic managers including those of the owning local Milton Brewery. Good food, courtyard garden, airy and spacious, good company with a pleasant mix of Cambridge (town and gown) people and visitors to the riverside 'village' of Chesterton. Recommended.
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After being empty for almost two years and a substantial and tasteful refurbishment by Milton Brewery this pub is now a fine destination in the much pub deprived area of Chesterton. The Haymakers is now run by the same company as the Devonshire Arms and offers a changing range of Milton Brewery beers as well as rotating guest beers and ciders. The kitchen currently only offers the same superb pizzas as the Dev. with more dishes being added when their gas supply will finally have been installed.
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The Haymakers was one of the reasons we moved into this area, so close to home, with a rugged feel, live music. Then we found it was a bit glum, so headed to Green Dragon instead. But it reopened, and in the hands of the Milton Brewery, it is warmer, cleaner, more furnished than ever before. The music that we recently heard was great, in the background enough to continue to talk, but there enough to listen if you wanted to. The people who go there are chilled and happy, the food is (even with their limited capability now that they are still waiting for gas to arrive) brilliant, the beers are top quality as always, and the staff are as friendly and professional as we were used to in the Devonshire Arms.
A great pub, that bodes well for the whole area, which is slowly starting to come back to life. There is even a cycling parts shop next door now!
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Reopening on 26th of April 2013 in the capable hands of Milton brewery.
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Driving past this past week I saw that it now seems to be close and shut up. Never very good anyway.
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This place is really sketchy. If you try and call, the mailbox is full. If you try their other number, no one ever picks up. Not only that but there is never more than two cars in the lot. I find it creepy!
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This place is really sketchy. If you try and call, the mailbox is full. If you try their other number, no one ever picks up. Not only that but there is never more than two cars in the lot. I find it creepy!
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One of Cambridge's most popular local music venues.
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pub could be alright apart from certain psychopathic customer called dom.n. irish.swedish,i don't know,possible queer.
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This used to be a good place to get a good pint and see good, local bands. The bands are still good but recently the beer has been getting worse. Last night I paid �3 for what was quite probably the worst pint of beer I have ever had. On complaining, the landlord just pointed at a sign that said "warm beer, lousy food".
If you go there you have been warned.
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Friendly atmosphere from staff and customers; live music at weekends, some good bands. Beer fine, parking at back, relaxed closing times. What's not to like?
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Pleasant community pub, similar atmosphere to good East London pubs - beer not bad (Spitfire)
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