Very much agreed Bigman3! The curry is awesome! Although I am a meat eater I love the food served here. It's just a pity that I live on the other side of manchester so my visits are very limited. Superb pub..

Retains how a good pub should be..

Excellent cask beer,real ales and ciders are on offer.The most expensive being £2 !!!
I had a pint of Bridport Cider for £1.70 and it was strong and refreshing at 6%,Hereford orchard is available for the less brave.

This is strictly a vegan pub,but dont let this put you off if your a meat eater.The dishes are excellent,and the curry is to die for..

All in all,a great pub with great prices.What isnt to like?As a devoted carnivore I was amazed how nice the vegan food here is very filling and very cheap.

The beer is nearly all brewed in house as they don't seem to do much beer swapping anymore.

I've been very disappointed lately in the beer I don't know whats going on with it quite a few of them seem to leave a fairly nasty after taste. Left after just a couple of pints last time as it just wasn't nice. Landlord need to go and get some tips from the Howard town brewery guys as they are fantastic at it.

This was our last port of call on a crawl around the city and it was midnight-ish admittedly, but we both found this place to be lacking in all kinds of things, especially atmosphere. Like I said, it was midnight and we were both half-cut and knackered, so it may well have been us.

Good selection of beers though and the Old Rosie and Sargeant Pepper Stout went down a treat as nightcap.

Will give it another go the next time we're in the city......Lovely pub, great location, good range of high quality beer, friendly staff, nice fire in winter, live music and tasty Huntsman's pies. Can't think of any negatives about the place.Good real ale pub with a decent selection of ales (eight on handpull, Bass and others on gravity). Nice open fires in the winter, can be a bit quiet at lunchtimes.

Called back and had some food this time. £7.95 for a pie, mash & gravy is maybe a touch on the high side but it was very good so no complaints. A steak at the same price seems good value.

Unfortunately I did now spot the obligatory TV with guess what - too easy - yes Sky Sports. Luckily the place is big enough so at least you can get away from it.I'm not a local as such but must have driven past this pub thousands of times in my life without ever bothering to call in. Have read some of the comments and it must have been pretty vibrant in the past!

I think I read about the 'latest' opening in the Derby Drinker and it sounded good enough to warrant a visit.

Called in last night and worthwhile it was too!

Quietish but with a good atmosphere. Tried three of the nine handpumps and all were pretty damm goood.

We didn't eat but the food that was coming out looked good.

Loo's were spotless.

Couldn't spot any of those huge intrusive TV's anywhere. What a pleasant change.

A Real Ale haven.

Will definately be back
Called in at lunchtime yesterday and was rather disappointed by the lack of clientele. There were a few other customers, but given what the Five Lamps has to offer, I would have expected more.

It isis excellent. 9 handpumps … all of them on ... and all (except for Everard’s Tiger) were from local micros. The Peak Ales’ Chatsworth Gold was first class, as was the double-decker BLT sandwich at £3.00. The barman was very friendly and helpful.

The Five Lamps closed and was boarded up around this time last year, but reopened again in June.

Having now come back from the dead for a second time, it is a pub with a great potential and I hope that Derby’s discerning drinkers will both appreciate and more importantly, support it.

Great to see this pub open again with a new landlord who I'm told runs the local CAMRA winter ales festival, so the beers at The Alex should be good - and they were when I visited recently. It's had a coat of paint - outside and inside - and was offering Castle Rock Brewery beers plus a range of guest ales. They also provide good quality rolls and not surprisingly the pub is a favourite with Derby County FC fans (and well-behaved away supporters are made very welcome). Handy for the railway station and The Brunswick is almost next door so both pubs compliment each other. The Alex is always worth a visit. Good luck to the new team there.I'm informed the Alex is open Friday and Saturday nights, plus match days, with a limited beer range, and apparently they're still looking for a new landlord.Came here after the game yesterday, and was a little disappointed - in view of some of the reviews this place has had, and my experience earlier in the day at The Brunswick.

I guess the place is still "in transition", which would explain the odour, appearance and limited range of ale on. Hope they sort it out soon, as I'm sure there is good reason for the high ratings this place was getting a few months ago.

My husband and I visited the old hall inn at hope on Sunday 30th Jan whilst taking a walk out for the afternoon. We often take drives out over the weekend to new places, we had driven over from the Pennines. We decided to stop at the old hall as it seemed to look very nice from the outside. When we walked in we had a very warm welcome by all the staff, It was like walking into our local back in saddleworth as if we had been going in for years. As for the menu it gives you a good choice we didn't no what to order at first but once we did order our food it was very well presented and was very very nice too. We was very impressed overall by everything. We will be visiting the old hall inn in the very near future.

Thank you to all the staff at the Old Hall Inn. Lucy & Paul from the Pennines I cannot agree at all with the previous post. Every time I've been in here since the new landlord took over I've been impressed by the improvements, but especially in the friendly attitude of the staff!
The beer was very well kept (Old Speckled Hen) and the food well cooked and good value.

As for the pubs in Castleton, let's just say that in a tourist trap they don't have to try too hard and it shows.What a quiet pub...... Well yes it is because the food is aweful and i mean aweful. Tough Steak rude staff and cold chips.. As for the Beer, Run of the mill not very well kept Rubbish.. If you want Good Beer travel up the road to Castleton and try the Chesire cheese or the Nags head now there proper cask ale pubs!!!

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Confirmed today that this has been bought by Wetherspoons. That may not be necessarily a bad thing, as long as they leave the pub and its interior largely untouched other than re-decorating. However, the bad thing is that they have given Leatherbritches 14 DAYS to leave the premises. What a nonsense. The brewery was to be "unaffected" by any sale and must surely have a minimum notice period of more than 2 weeks, given that they will have to move all their plant and re-start elsewhere, hopefully within the town.
I, for one, will not drink there if they bully the brewery out and destroy the fabric of the building.Open again temporarily at 5pm on Saturday to run down the stock, but closed again by this morning for probably two weeks for refurbishment apparently, although the (unknown to us) barperson we spoke to seemed strangly hesitant at offering a targeted re-opening date. I continue to be concerned for the future of this iconic pub.Although this has had a "for sale" sign up for around 10-12 weeks now, it is nonetheless a huge shock to report that the Green Man closed its doors yesterday. The owner has a restaurant business in Leicester and was always going to sell up to concentrate on that, but has creamed every last penny out of the Xmas break and then put up the shutters without finding a buyer so far. The Leatherbritches brewery on site was always unaffected by the closure and it may be that they might take over the running of this iconic pub, especially sicne the whole Shrovetide tradition is based on the pub and it needs to be up and running again by the first week in March in order to accomodate that. The decor had got tired in recent months and everything needs freshening up, so let's hope this is just a temporary state of affairs and that the Green Mna will rise again very soon .