The Brass Monkey Bar

A busy, trendy, long, thin, tunnel-like cocktail bar in one of the more popular parts of Nottingham town centre. Brass monkey spill out brash dark urban tunes among a crowd of excitable students and young adults without long queues to have to contend with on entry. The cocktail menu is pretty impressive […]

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Bar Risa

The bar is the centre-piece in this venue, accessible from all sides with a very good selection of wines, beers, spirits and ciders, witha  comedy club upstairs and a galley overlooking onto the bar from above. On a Saturday night however this place is a little quiet, rumoured to be louder in the week […]

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Lloyds Bar

A lloyds bar joins the line-up of this parade of bars along the Waterfront in Nottingham to offer cheap wetherspoons-style services to drinkers who are after some low playing commercial tunes, TV screens over the bar showing sports during such seasons and very loud crowds cheering for a love of alcohol. The bar is […]

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The Pitcher and Piano

Glorious Glorious Pitcher and Piano in Nottingham, the cathedral of modern drinking and I mean this literally. Pitcher and Piano sits inside a huge church that may as well be a cathedral. It has three floors of modern fitted tables and chairs and booths in an array of rounded sections, pews and […]

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Oceana (Nightclub)

This is easily the biggest club i have ever been into and I look forward to trying out the others around the country. Oceana is an Uber club in Nottingham town centre. If you are lucky enough to be a student the tickets can cost as little at £3 to get in but […]

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The Waterfront

This bar is accessible from the street and from the edge of the river. Its back garden overlooks the banks and in a flood of chrome lights up this whole area. One of the most wonderful of beer gardens for the summer. When entering from the front you come up some side stairs into […]

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The Wetherspoons

Okay, worst picture in the world right? Well in fact this isnt a half bad wetherspoons, for one this it is certainly big enough. Downstairs you find a smokey haven of a long passage way beside the bar down to an open space area of food-orientated tables at the far end. I am told […]

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Olde trip to Jerusalem

Hailed as the oldest Inn in England this pub serves a community of old men, tourists and students. Built into the caves underneath Nottingham castle- this little place dates from the crusades and has its own brand of clothing with the mark of the oldest inn in the world. Tacky to be […]

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The Old Peacock

Okay the worst picture on the face of the earth right? Don’t be fooled, this is a lovely bit of pub set on one of Nottingham’s busiest roads heading straight into the city. Entering you find yourself looking at the corner of a bar with a chamber to your left with stumpy […]

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BZR Bar

The rumour that it stands for Bizarre Bar but in fact no the three letters is all thanks I am told as we make our way up the steep hill towards Nottingham castle only to turn off last minute into a rather snazzy little bar over the road. Up the stairs through the large […]

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