BITE user comments - Seafarer1966
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The food is shockingly bad. Used to be famed for the quality of its bitter in the 80's. Shame it's gone so downhill.
10 Sep 2020 12:35
Nice little backstreet pub. Mainly locals as customers but generally friendly atmosphere. Nice to see an old pub like this still trading as so many are shutting down.
10 Sep 2020 12:32
Nice little backstreet boozer. Friendly locals. Good stopping off point if you're walking into town from the west side of Derby.
10 Sep 2020 12:29
Standard Wetherspoons clientele. Like a holding pen for The Jeremy Kyle Show. Toilets up a steep staircase. Very good selection of real ale though. Lager on tap is generally stale as this company buys up barrels near the end of their use by date. That's why it's cheap. A lovely interior when it opened but now looking shabby. Try and avoid placing any body parts of the tables as they are likely to stick. The full English breakfast is usually very good.
10 Sep 2020 12:24
Best totty in Derby on the dancefloor at weekends. Only problem is the dancefloor is in the basement...and there's no mens bogs down there except back up the stairs in the main area. Last time I was there I had a rather heated difference of opinion with some coked up followers of the Koran. The bouncers were great and sorted out the situation. Truly expensive drinks though.
17 Sep 2009 14:48
Been closed for a couple of years. The Late Bar was Derby's only definitely lesbian pub. Years ago it was The Vines where the tramps and dossers would buy a pint of slops for 10 p out of the tin slop bucket from under the bar. Quality!
17 Sep 2009 14:44
I've lived in Derby for most of my life and have no idea where this place is on Irongate. It defo ain't the Jorrocks that's for sure.
17 Sep 2009 14:43
Very much a regulars pub. Rough residential area and the regulars of this place represent this I'm afraid.
17 Sep 2009 14:41
I love the Kenno. Nothing special but locals friendly enough.
17 Sep 2009 14:40
One of the so-called haunted pubs of Derby....oh really. Good boozer at weekends.
17 Sep 2009 14:39
Built in the 1980's. Pub quiz on tuesdays. Food cheap but not great.
17 Sep 2009 14:38
Honeycomb, Silverhill, Mickelover
Dull suburban pub filled with regulars called Dave who all work at Royces.
17 Sep 2009 14:27
Hasn't been called the Golden Eagle for a few years now. This is very much a student nob heads pub in the middle of all those student flats.
17 Sep 2009 14:23
Still shut as date of this post. Swan and Salmon up the road still shut. However, the New Zealand Arms are back open.
17 Sep 2009 14:21
The Florence Nightingale, Derby
Until a couple of years ago was a great pub, especially for all day sunday drinking. Landlord was a diamond who spoke to everyone. There was great karioke or those two guys who do the comedy act round Derby pubs....who are they I can't remember....little funny bloke and fat Scottish bloke doing the ad-libs.....hilarious though. Also frequented by lots of lovely nurse ladies from the nurses home up the road. I'll never forget the pyjama party as long as I live.
The present landlord (never seen him) thinks a pub can run itself with a couple of cash in hand benefit claimants working the bar. This place is a sad reflection of what it used to be. I wouldn't bother.
17 Sep 2009 14:17
No longer Flares. The gay couple who bought the Duke of York and turned it into a shirtlifters pub have bought what was Flares. It's called Boogie Nights now. It is to be fair a straight persons club still with plenty of swamp donkeys and mingers on offer especially at the weekends. If you like women with genitals like a wizards sleeve this is the place for you. There is a half decent smoking area down past the bogs. Expect to see drunken males embracing ugly women twice their age, vigorously feeding the toothless gibbon.
In days of old whilst it was Flares it did me proud for female fluid receptacles when I was feeling a bit full. Better than knocking one out anyway.
Sunday night is tail-gunners night though so be careful. The pound coin on the mens bogs floor is superglued...they'll be in like Flynn matey. Lol.
17 Sep 2009 14:11
Filled to the ginnels with binty at the weekend. A lechers paradise. Lol.
17 Sep 2009 14:00
Stale beer and grubby decor. Full of old men sitting on their own and staring into space.
17 Sep 2009 13:57
Imagine unwashed benefit claimant wearing fake Tommy Hilfiger jumper covered in dog hairs........well done....now you have a picture of a Crown and Cushion regular in your mind. Add a few lines of coke and a bad attitude.
People you don't want to meet are in this rat hole.
If you add up all the regulars of this place you might just have enough for a full set of teeth.
16 Sep 2009 15:48
I had a few sh*gs out of this place in the 80's. Sinfin girls were the best.
16 Sep 2009 15:35
In need of some tlc. Shame because it used to be a nice pub. Nothing special on offer at the bar.
16 Sep 2009 15:33
Why is this pub listed twice on this site?
Anyway:
An alcoholics boozer, full of red faced old blokes turning their livers to stone.
Definitely USED to be a drug dealing place but it's in new hands now so I don't know. Dealers used to frequent the bogs whilst their pregnant 14 year old girlfriends were at the pool table.
It's been painted and the place no longer smells of sweaty unwashed people...well not whilst the paint is fresh anyway.
16 Sep 2009 15:32
Scutters pub. Avoid at all costs. If you fancy a fight though the drinkers in this hell-hole would oblige I'm sure.
16 Sep 2009 15:28
Hasn't been the Buck in the Park for a few years now. Was Bespoke but I think it's closed now.
16 Sep 2009 14:17
Amazing to see how a once popular venue is now almost empty. In the 80's this was THE place for designer clothed young football hooligans to come in and see the best looking birds in Derby. The car park was full of Capri's and XR3i's. Weekends you couldn't move in the Broadway.
Now it's a dull suburban pub.
16 Sep 2009 14:15
Great little boozer. Nice locals and bar staff. No food on offer. A few students come in but generally not your usual nob heads.
16 Sep 2009 14:13
The Blessington Carriage, Derby
Student pub. Expect to see an assortment of youngsters desperately trying to be so wacky and utterly zany. Worse at the start of the new education year in Sept/ Oct when the 'freshers' go here.
16 Sep 2009 14:08
Fantastic food. Great for a sunday trip out. Good range of ales.
16 Sep 2009 14:05
Nice old boozer. Drank on and off in here for years.
Unfortunately part of the Derby Ghost Tour. Expect to see unknowing victims of fraud led round this and other Derby pubs to be regaled with tales of heinous crimes and ghosts. Utter garbage actually but nobody has had the nouse to take legal action against the founder....and we all know who you are....formerly selling records on the market and now drving a very expensive car, appearing on Sky tv, and being promoted by Derby City Council tourism dept. at council taxpayers expense. Some people rob banks RF but you created Derby Ghost Tours. Charlatan.
16 Sep 2009 14:03
This a Samuel Smiths house. In my opinion like drinking dishwater but if you like it then get on down. Attracts dog walkers off adjacent Darley Park.
Saturday and Sunday lunchtimes expect to see cossetted and pampered child substitute pooches aplenty. I have witnessed headscarf wearing middle aged ladies telling their dogs to say 'bye bye' to the staff. Good grief.
Lovely old stone building actually....goes right back to the 12th century when it was part of the once huge Norman built monastery (until Henry 8th had it knocked down that is).
16 Sep 2009 13:56
Like most Wetherspoons pubs this is a former shop converted to a boozer. Great range of ales on offer, plus a good range of lagers and ciders. Turkish Efes pilsner is available in 500 ml bottles for �1.89 at the mo. Very refreshing. No beer snobbery (i.e. like at the Flowerpot where lager drinkers get sneered and snorted at by the old hippies).
Marvellous manager who takes no rubbish off anyone and deals with pond life immediately (and lets face it most Wetherscums pubs attract their fair share of society's lower cases).
Steak night on a tuesday is great value and the food is excellent for the price.
16 Sep 2009 13:50
Scruffy hole. Can't see what all the fuss is about. 'Beer garden' like Steptoes Yard. Probably last painted when Clement Attlee was in parliament.
16 Sep 2009 13:44
Tends to attract duffel bag carrying, bearded train spotters (who most likely live with their mums).
Good selection of ales and foreign beers on offer. Nice bar staff.
16 Sep 2009 13:41
A great boozer. Great service and friendly regulars. Note the regular who is the spitting image of the actor Pete Postlethwaite. Very nice guy and thoroughly knowledgeable on beers.
16 Sep 2009 13:39
Lots of old guys with long, grey hair frequent this place. Seems to have a lot of ales on offer. A regulars pub. Don't dare order a pint of lager at the bar or the regulars will take the p155 out of you....mind you with haircuts like those who are they to talk. Lol.
16 Sep 2009 13:36
Lovely old bank converted to a pub. Spectacular ceiling albeit somewhat nicotine stained.
Service is generally poor. The bar area is too small to service such a large pub. Staff seem to be students with little idea of who is next in the queue.
A bit like drinking in an aircraft hangar.
16 Sep 2009 13:33
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The Douglas Bar, Derby
Derbyshire CID ought to send someone in to this pub with a secret camera. It's like a Who's Who of villains. The regulars spend most of their time slagging each other off behind their backs. Cheap Carling. Clean glasses. Toilets clean. Pub interior clean. Regulars could do with a scrub up. Anybody doing a degree in anthropology should come here at least once to watch the lower life forms.
6 Jun 2023 13:08