please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
This pub at least offers convenient, person-scaled sanctuary, from the glass-and-stainless-steel, of the city centre piazzas that it adjoins.
No, it's not the most remarkable of pubs, but there's a place for everything.
I wasn't interrogated as to whether "everything was alright for me" either, which is a joy in itself.
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Unfair perhaps to compare this pub with the many excellent ale houses in and around the town, but at the end of a highly rewarding crawl the Roebuck was by far the least striking of the day. There was nothing especially wrong with it, our meals arrived in good time and with two for £10 deals you get what you pay for. Didn't particularly care for my pint (and didn't try to note down what it was). The rudimentary sounding Dr Feelgood tribute band was intrusively loud, but the regulars all seemed to appreciate it so what do I know! Probably not my kind of pub but i couldn't really see this one as a regular calling in place. Points for efficient service and being reasonably located near the station. 6/10.
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Popped in on Feb 22 for something to eat. There were three of us, and we all decided to go for chilli con carne. Price on menu was £6.50 or 2 for £10 (as were many other meals) so we paid for 2 at £10 and the third at £6.50. We were given 2 child-sized portions and one regular size! On complaining we were told that the smaller ones were the ones we'd paid less for. Clearly someone there doesn't understand what a price offer is! What a rip-off!! I emailed a very polite complaint to the link on their website the next day, and have received no reply. I will certainly never go back!
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Usually has a selection of local brews on handles, but at the stronger end rather than session strength.
Does fair pub grub reasonably.
The interior's a bit drab and uninspiring, and the locals not much different, I found.
The last point's the main down for me.
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The place was deserted on a Friday night in term time, too. You have to ask why. The decor was rather bland, the staff were friendly enough but the beer (Famers Blond and Pale Rider) was distinctly tired. There are many, many better places in Sheffield than this.
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A good pub with 3 decent cask ales and a good food menu at reasonable prices. Worth visiting for food in the evening.
alexw - 27 Aug 2011 13:43 |
As a visitor to Sheffield I quite like this pub, nothing particularly special but a bit better than average. Has 3 real ales on at moment, 2 are local Kelham Island ones & other is Black Sheep and whenever I've visited in the past the've always been in good form. It has a beer garden at the front where you can watch people (& traffic) go by. (Not sampled food yet but menu looks OK.) All in all it does as it says on the tin and then some.
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This reasonably attractive pub was bustling at teatime on a workday afternoon, although the clientele did seem a little geriatric. Managed to find a nice, quiet corner, though, and watched the world go by.
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Always seems to have good beers and resonably priced food with good service.
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City-centre pub in an area with a lot of competition, from the very good, down through the Wetherspoons' to the 'shiny chrome and expensive lager' holes. The Roebuck is a fairly average pub in many ways - it clearly does a lot of food business (sauages, mash, Yorkshire pudding and peas was fairly good value at �5 for a good plateful) and shows signs of having been smartened up recently, but remains mostly a drinking pub, with one long bar in the main room.
Atmosphere-wise, nothing much has changed in the ten or so years that I've used the pub on an off - steady bustle during the day and rammed on weekend evenings and Blades match-days, with not much in the way of friction between the students and locals. It's a generally sound pub and the landlord's policy of personally choosing the guest beer (currently Abbeydale Brimstone) is a nice touch, particularly as he favours the local brewers.
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On the same street as the Red Lion, on which I have just commented, but the other side of the main Arundel Gate carriageway is the Roebuck, another Enterprise Inns house.
The pub is next to a brand new multi-storey car park, which, for fairly obvious reasons, is known locally as The Cheese Grater.
There's a large single bar, with plenty of room for the lunchtime food trade and room for a couple of snooker tables.
There's outside seating at the front which affords the priviledge of breathing in traffic fumes if you're so inclined.
Beers on during my recent visit lasst week were TT Landlord, Black Sheep and Abbeydale Moonshine. The TT Landlord was spot on.
I think I'd probably put this pub in the same bracket as the Red LION - not a must visit pub and nothing to make it stand out from the crowd, but perfectly adequate.
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A bit run down and nothing out of the ordinary. Average beer and sometimes very loud music.
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Not the best pub in my humble opinion. There seems to be a definate lack of interest by the management. Believe there is a refurb in the pipeline to try to compete with the newer establishments that are going to be created due to the areas regeneration.
Should be raising it's game to compete but looks like they may have got complacent since the grey went.
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small, but nice!
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Great pub in city centre, good food and 3 real ales.
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