Blessington Carriage, Derbyback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
as a student it is a good place for cheap drink but also some of the worst also, cramped and dingey this is somewhere where you would expect to see dodgy dealings going on. favoured haunt of college students and other young people
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This place is awful, you have to pay to get in after about half ten and it is full of 12 year olds who still want to hear Jump Around by House of Pain - in 2007! A money making machine which lost any soul it once had years and years ago...
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I wouldn't say it's the worst pub in Derby, but then again you don't go here for the interior design. It's just a rock pub, plain and simple. The ale isn't the best though at times so you have to be careful what you drink. I tend to end up plumping for spirits or bottles in this place, but they tend to be on offer much more as well!
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this is the worst pub in derby grotty beer, poncy people trying to get attention by their wacky clothes, too dark, dingy, smelly, loud music and always too full - the only thing i like about it - there is some top totty behind the bar!
anonymous - 7 Dec 2006 16:18 |
One of the best pubs in derby, very cheap drinks, (especially the spirits at the back bar at weekends)
Free entry before 10:30pm, £1 after
Open until 1am, great atmoshpere, great DJ, occasional live bands.
Different drinks offers every night, plenty of seating, two outdoor areas, wheerlchair accessible.
Great night, everynight 9/10
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Overrated. Pump beer not much good, personally I wouldn't bother with it, although I do know a lot of people who swear by it!
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Student pub, but don't let that stop you. The inside has seen better days and it tends to attract the Goth crowd. If you don't mind this then it's open late until 1am (or is it 12?), but it'll cost you a quid to get in (unless you're a woman).
Finished many good nights here, best in the summer when you can use the beer garden.
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The beer is crap, the food is crap, the staff are rude, unfriendly and lazy, tables are never cleaned....i could go on but i won't bother...go to the Flowerpot instead!!
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derby's best pub! quiz machine, pool table, nice bar staff, open late, good music and live bands. and everything else is ace too.
Tom Morton - 6 Feb 2005 12:00 |
This is most definately a student pub with a great atmosphere. Would definately recommend you go to the back bar for drinks as the queuea are smnaller and they have better offers on shots. It is abit dingy but that's why i like it.
beckybunny - 7 Oct 2004 14:36 |
It's true, there are a large proportion of suspiciously young looking drinkers in here, but you have to start somewhere. It's usually the Blessington Carriage, to give it its full name, because the drinks are offensively cheap, with various offers, and the usual crowd fill up here and stagger round to the Blue Note on Sadlergate to drink in the semi-darkness. Top tip - if you're drinking spirits, head round to the back bar because they have different offers on, and there are smaller queues. Most of the time.
There's an oddly stained pool table and some classic musical offerings from the DJ's - this is the only place I've ever been where I've heard the Cure and MC Hammer in the same night.
The upstairs room can be hired, and there's an outdoorsy bit for the warmer weather, or at least the drier evenings, since most people are protected from the cold by their beer armour.
All in all, it's homely, a bit grubby, and a good place to start an evening if you're trying to avoid all the trendy wine bars that seem to have popped up in Derby over the last few years. Students flock here in droves, but it's not the same as it used to be.
For those who want a proper spit and sawdust type pub with substantial real ale offerings, perhaps the Flowerpot might be of interest?
VJ - 27 Oct 2003 12:13 |
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