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This pub was always a dive full of idiots and ne'erdowells. Happily it has recently been totally refurbished by its new Indian owners removing the fruit machines, TVs and dross that used to frequent it. More of a bar now than a pub with a (predictable) Indian restaurant bit at the back of the pub. Sort of place to take the missus for a drink and a bite to eat.
21 Feb 2010 09:24
A grim dark hole on Beeston High Road. Has live music regularly of the rock grunge genre so is popular with students - probably great if you like that sort of thing.
21 Feb 2010 09:14
Pleasant 'locals' pub serving cheap Carling and Deuchars. Basic food available at lunch time and stew at 50p a bowl at teatime when it's full of blokes who've just finished work. Gets a bit lively of a weekend evening when the karaoke/disco brigade are on the razzle. Friendly staff, late licence, convenient for the new Mecca bingo hall and the pawnbrokers opposite!
21 Feb 2010 09:02
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The most standoffish pub in Nottingham! Sure it's quaint and old-fashioned with a huge range of real ales and overpriced whiskys which guarantees a crowd of beardy, aran sweater wearing CAMRA types babbling on about the virtues of the latest brew of Old Knobshank. They do sell Carling but the pumps hidden away so you have to ask for it by name...probably because it's cheaper than the continental lagers advertised on the blackboard.
The pub is always well staffed by know-it-all students who think they're experts on beer despite their cheeks still being wet with their mother's milk.
The food is pretty good though overpriced (bangers and mash �8) however infinitely preferable to the microwaved crud that is served in every other pub in Beeston. Vegetarians love this place as there is always a big choice, so expect to see yummy mummy types and people concerned with 'green issues' munching into a nine quid mushroom and bean casseroles.
Dogs are welcome, children are not...must eat and order before 6.30pm.
The regulars are extremely cliquey and of the Guardian reader/school teacher/middle management variety whose idea of fun is traipsing around the Pennines for their summer hols. No chance of bar room banter or having the craic...the whole of the local rugby team were barred for doing so.
mobiles are not allowed...should yours ring, there will instant looks of disaproval and tut-tutting and a snotty member of staff will upbraid you. I know mobile phones can be annoying but not as much as the idiots that blather on about them ringing.
Worth a visit if your in the area but hardly worth making an effort to go there.
20 Feb 2010 15:38
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Commercial Inn, Beeston
A somewhat cliquey pub with expensive beer for no good reason. Has a regular clientele and after work crowd. Big on sports with plasma screens and pool tables. Food is not bad and has a small function room upstairs. Beer garden and enclosed smoking area with an outside TV.
21 Feb 2010 09:33