What can I say! Fantastic pub. I was a visiting Exeter City fan on Feb 12th and was made to feel very welcome. Friendly chat to the locals,2 very friendly barmaids who loved our Devonshire accent,and superb ale of which the Screech Owl was my fave. My kind of pub,go visit.One of the top 5 pubs I have ever visited. Full range of Castle Rock ales at reasonable prices. Fantastic band playing, the fiddle player was even better than me in my prime!What can you say, the worlds greatest beer 2010 (Harvest Pale) is brewed next door. As the brewery tap for Castle Rock, thgis pub is just what it should be...a pub! Awesome start and finish boozer for a Nottingham crawl if you come in by train.

What a great real beer AND cider pub to discover in Nottingham. I visited with some friends last week, and was blown away with the choice available on pump. I tried "Solar Power" from Purbeck which was absolutely amazing and "Purity" from Ubu also amazing, my mate tried Black Dragon Cider and had more than one pint! If all pubs were like this one, with beer and cider as it should be, in excellent condition, then the customers would return time and time again. Great atmosphere too, friendly knowledgeable staff, i'll definately be visiting again and taking more friends. 10/10 deserved!I absolutely love this place. brilliant space, always a nice atmosphere around the bar. The new landlords know what theyre doing with the real ales and ciders and theres always a good selection available. Ive even seen a couple of decent bands down there recently. this pub deserves to be more well known than it is...really worth a visit!!Hadn't visisted this pub for a few years due to average selection of beers and service! Been a few times now and pleased to say the new landlords have really turned this place around, Great Beers and impressive real Ciders on pumps, excellent quality and really great atmosphere has returned, will definately be visiting again soon.

Mega-touristy. Absolutely crowded when I visited, but then again it was on a match day (County v Man City).

Beer was pretty good (I had the Rock Mild).Man who served me (could have been the landlord) gave me a short pint and short changed me. Not amused. Place fun of tourists, including when I was there some foreigners who were astonished at the concept of ale. They ordered coffees. Why go to an English pub and order coffee? Why?! (Compared to coffee "back home" it will be rubbish!) Anyway, nice pub and the Olde Trip ale is good stuff.Had to go to it as it ws the oldest pub in England and well worth a visit - drank "old trip" beer which was a proper beer and worth sampling. Who cares if it was full of tourists (like me) it was still a great pub

Really nice bar. It has a very comfortable slightly more upmarket atmosphere. Its a couple of minutes walk up Derby Road from the Market Square, but well worth it. Yes, it can smell a little musty, but its not overpowering and it is partly built into the sandstone rock, so its to be expected! The food by the way is excellent and hearty. Highly recommended.Ordinary looking frontage leads in to front bar and further back is hewn in to the rock. Gents is in like a kind of cave. Loads of ales on, either local or from neighbouring counties. Plumped for a pint of Copper Penny which was a very nice pint. The gastro element does make the back half look more like a delicatessen than a pub though.'Musty' and 'humid' are understatements! It gets worse the deeper in you get, and the busier it is. But it's mostly worth it - always a great selection of well-poured beer, extensive yummy-sounding (posh) menu, helpful staff etc. Usually rather busy, but generally easy to get seats. Definitely worth the 5 minute walk from the centre of town!

This pub has recently been decorated and new furnishings , outside cleaned up , some real bargain nights in the restaurant mid-week, Still The Best Pub around ,great landlord ( phill) and my favourite bar girl ( tracy) , who really welcomes EVERYONE , Quite an imposing pub from the outside, with a large car park and in a pretty village, this place is a little underwhelming inside. The bar area was packed with locals and was a little rowdy. Beers available were Theakston Paradise Ale, Greene King Abbot Ale and Wells Bombardier. A larger dining area can be find to the right as you walk in and tables continue around to the rear. The restaurant area had particularly grubby seating. Food was very pricey, but the portions were large. I'm not convinced it was worth what we paid. The Red Lion up the road seemed to be doing a better trade in meals, albeit at even more inflated prices. For a moment, I thought I was in London.Fantastic Food , brilliant atmosphere,friendly locals,brilliant staff, Landlord welcomes Everyone has a friend , Highly recommend a visit to this pub ,

While we were on our way home yesterday from Derbyshire to Essex, my husband remembered this place from when he used to live in the area. He said it had been made into a pub from the Widmerpool railway station and used to be a specialist fish restaurant. What commended me to it was the announcement on the board outside that it served traditional English home-cooked food. I liked the mention of 'English'. Also, the railway prints by railway artists. My late first husband, who had been a railwayman, would have loved it. I even found a print by Terence Cuneo in the ladies' loo, but didn't have time to search for Cuneo's trademark mouse.

Anyway, to the food. My husband had local beer, which he thoroughly approved of. And the carvery was good. Lovely well-cooked but not over-cooked roast beef. I couldn't fault the meal. Good service, friendly and efficient. We'll certainly be back there the next time we're in the area, which won't be for another few months. Fantastic restaurant-pub with superb staff-the PERSON behind the bar IS the flag ship of the establishment, excellent food and friendly locals characters, which is reflected in the very happy customers, including myself. We will definitely be using this as our”half way” meeting place in the future. Very impressed!Give this place a try !More of a restuarant than a pub -clean, spacious and well-managed, excellent food- well presented ,good beer and wine, friendly service- who could ask for more? I've been here for dinner four times in the last few weeks, and every time have come away thoroughly impressed. Last time I had a whole oven baked seabass-absolutelly fantastic and big portion ,and my wife she had a slow rost lamb shank-with red wine juice-cooked to perfection.My beers were cold, fizzy & export strength,shes red wine great (reccomended by the staff).We will be back again and again! Well done !!! Recommended to others !