| Pub | Comments | Location |
|---|---|---|
| CAMBRIDGE | ||
| Cambridge Blue | Plain trad. decor in this multi-room pub with an excellent range of real ales - Each hand pump has two clips, one for the pump and one for a beer from the tap-room. They've also got an wide range of Belgian bottles if you'd prefer. The food looks good.
Last visited December 2008. |
Gwydir Street |
| Castle | Small rooms with bare wooden floor and old wooden furniture set the tone in this pleasant Adnam's pub serving excellent ales. It was totally deserted when I visited early on a Tuesday. Eventually the door creaked and someone came in, but it was only the postman. They sell Adnams Broadside Marmalade!
Last visited September 2010. |
Castle Street |
| Castle | Restrained contemporary decor, wood floor etc. in this rather nice up market cafe bar. The menu looks good but not cheap and I paid a startling £3 for a pint of real ale, amazingly right next door to the much cheaper Wetherspoons.
Last visited October 2008. |
St. Andrew's Street / Downing Street |
| Champion of the Thames | A compact two-sided plain friendly boozer serving excellent ale.
Last visited October 2008. |
King Street |
| Clarendon Arms | A traditional street corner boozer serving four or five real ales. Quiet but ticking over with friendly regulars. The food looks good.
Last visited September 2010. |
Clarendon Street |
| Eagle | A large multi-roomed city centre pub, famous for being the place where Watson and Crick first announced their discovery of the structure of DNA, and for a ceiling covered in graffiti by WWII airmen. Decent beer from Greene King.
Last visited May 2008. |
Bene't Street |
| Free Press | This tiny little back-street gem serves excellent real ale, in lined glasses for a full pint. Beautiful old plain dark wood decor and wooden benches. Very quiet on a Tuesday lunchtime.
Last visited October 2008. |
Prospect Row |
| Kingston Arms | Eleven or more hand pumps in this plain ordinary street-corner local knocked through into one room. The food looks good and is very popular.
Last visited December 2008. |
Kingston Street |
| Live and Let Live | Eight hand pumps for guest ales and a real cider, plus a selection of Belgian bottles. Dark wood floor and panelling, bare brick walls and 'rustic' furniture create a pleasant interior. Quiet and friendly on a midweek lunchtime visit.
Last visited December 2008. |
Mawson Road |
| Maypole | A pleasant multi-roomed pub hidden on a back alley, but well worth searching out. Don't panic at the lack of decent beer when you go in, the eight handpumps are all in the other bar! Very quiet on a Tuesday lunchtime and the only other customer had a coffee, but I enjoyed a perfect pint of Old Growler. It's some time since I've seen keg Bass on sale.
Last visited September 2010. |
Portugal Place |
| Mitre | Very much a tourist trap, but they've got a wide range of real ales, both common and less well known ones. The decor is rather well done, fake traditional. The food, concentrating on pies, looks good but they were having lots of trouble with a brand new menu on the day I visited. Part of the Nicholson's chain.
Last visited September 2010. |
Bridge Street |
| Pickerel Inn | Excellent ale is served in this pleasant pub. There's a small front room with wooden floor, bare brick walls and ceiling beams. Situated just outside the main tourist area it's a good place for a nice quiet drink. The menu looks good.
Last visited June 2006. |
Magdalene Street |
| Red Lion | A nice multi-room interior with some rustic bare-brick decor, serving excellent real ales from Greene King.
Last visited June 2010. |
Mill End Road / Forest Road, Cherry Hinton |
| Robin Hood and Little John | A busy pub concentrating on food sales but nevertheless serving fine ale, from Greene King. The decor is in the standard modern chain pub style, very well done.
Last visited June 2010. |
Fulbourn Road / High Street, Cherry Hinton |
| Salisbury Arms | Wells and Youngs beers and Adnams Broadside were on handpump when I visited this large multi-area pub with (fake I suspect) antiquey decor, wood and tiled floor. The food looks good.
Last visited December 2008. |
Tenison Road |
| Unicorn | This plain open knocked-through boozer is probably full of youngsters on a Friday night, but it was totally empty when I visited on a Saturday lunchtime. Nonetheless, my pint of Greene King IPA was in excellent nick.
Last visited December 2008. |
High Street / Mill End Road, Cherry Hinton |
| Unicorn | Ancient-looking beams in a pleasant multi-room interior, with very comfy sofas! Excellent ale.
Last visited May 2009. |
Church Lane, Trumpington |
| Wetherspoon's Regal | Standard Wetherspoon's fare with perhaps a wider selection than usual of ales, in a former cinema and claimed to be the largest pub in the country. On a sunny day it's a bit dark when you first go in.
Last visited May 2009. |
Regent Street |
| GRANTCHESTER | ||
| Red Lion | Outside, a thatched roof, and a nice knocked through interior with wood beams and panelling in this large pub mainly aimed at the food market. The menu looks good but not cheap. Service was a bit slow when I visited, mainly due to interminable queries about food orders, but the real ale was worth waiting for.
Last visited May 2009. |
Westgate / Bourges Boulevard |
| Rupert Brooke | Good beer and excellent up-market food both in the bar and the restaurant. The ancient wooden beams are purely decorative, I think.
Last visited September 2010. |
High Street / Broadway |
| PETERBOROUGH | ||
| Brewery Tap |
Not visited. |
Westgate / Bourges Boulevard |
| Wortley Almshouses | A plain multi-roomed boozer serving cheap ale including a mediocre pint of Sam Smith's.
Last visited December 2006. |
Westgate |
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