Rutland Arms, Bakewellback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
Accommodation - Clean, comfortable but overpriced.
Food - Good and well presented, but overpriced.
Beer - Only one pump in use serving a very overpriced (£3.90 a pint), mediocre Chatsworth Gold.
Return visit - A definite NO.
Try the Manners Hotel a couple of hundred yards down the road - Far superior in every way.
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This is a hotel bar offering overpriced bar meals (connected to a hotel restaurant offering overpriced food). Only one ale on when I went in and it tasted old and like it had gone off. Even the fizz didn't taste great! I would suggest heading across the road to the Red Lion.
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Dead.
Its not really a pub. Just a hotel bar, without an atmosphere.
Was recently on hotel inspector, as it was so bad. May have changed since then but I wouldnt bet on it.
The owner is unfriendly.
I wouldnt go here unless you were staying at the hotel and couldnt be bothered to walk over the road.
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Basically a hotel bar, a bit plush for your average ale drinker but probably better than other offerings on the ale front in Bakewell. That said the pint of Thonbridge ale (one of their dark brews) wasn't up to much.
anonymous - 10 Jul 2011 12:51 |
This was on Hotel Inspector a few weeks ago
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I think this has changed hands. The atmosphere has changed, anyway. We got the impression drinkers were no longer welcome. And the bar has been tarted up.
It was a lunchtime, but the beer quality was poor - no where near as good as it used to be - and not as good a selection, either.
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Built on the site of the White Lion which was the birthplace (according to local legend) of the Bakewell Tart or Pudding, this has a commanding view of Bakewell and dominates the town. The lounge bar is a little run down - dirty carpet and unadventurous cheap furnishings - though the cabinet clocks are a nice touch. The hotel tries to hold onto its grander past, and there's a wonderful sense that Agatha Christie may be sitting in the corner working on one of her well mannered detective novels. It lays claim to a number of distinguished guests, including Jane Austin and Coleridge.
Serves three casks - two of them were the local and delicious Thornbridge beers on my visit. There is no cooling system, relying entirely on the cellar temperature. As it was a hot day on my visit, the beers were a little warm.
An acceptable place, and one that I wanted to visit because of the history, but not one that I would urge people to visit.
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