The Fat Cat, Colchester - pub details
Previously called: Royal
Address: 65, Butt Rd, Colchester, Essex, CO3 3BZ [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 917 0007 (ref 19427)
Colchester Town (0.5 miles), Colchester (1.1 miles), Hythe (1.5 miles)
Pub facilities/features:
- Real ale
Pub suggested by ahscum on 5 Oct 2006
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> Current user rating: 7.9/10 (rated by 19 users)
> Local guides: Colchester pub guide, Essex pub guide
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user reviews of the Fat Cat, Colchester
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| Fat Cat - Good Job! great selection of beers, friendly atmosphere, good live music and late license, a pub to be cherished and well used me thinks. A v impressed customer, will be back. weezel - 7 May 2008 23:59 |
| Having learned of it's existence I was excited by the prospect of a visit to The Fat Cat. Initial impressions were favourable with an excellent selection of beers on offer and friendly staff. However the place feels extremely new and lacks a community feel in my view. Strangely there were very few male patrons when I visited. scoobslabrador - 14 Apr 2008 15:53 |
| Bright lightwood front bar above which a blackboard showed available ales - five of six handpumps Sat pm, and seven of the originally listed eleven from the tap room; I don’t have all details but when the choice is reduced and still stretches to 12 beers, it’s gotta be good. I know they had Brewers Gold & Hophead and, I agree with GDS, the couple of FatCat beers I tried were really tasty too. A plain looking pub, too plain according to my fellow crawlers, but I didn’t mind the simplicity of the whiteboarded walls & ceilings in the front, contrasting with the green wall housing the windows to the tap room stills, and there was a small plasma showing the rugby above a decorative fireplace. Around the bar to the right is a more shadowy section with some serious beer tasting going on, beyond this a small tiled area leading to impressively spotless loos, and a tiny outside corridor for smokers. Come on FatCat, we need you to open an outlet in SE London. trainman - 9 Mar 2008 18:07 |
| Visited on Boxing Day before Saints played Colchester. Unfortunately I was driving which was a real shame considring the beer on offer, 4 on handpump and 12 in the tap room according to the board. I had the Fat Cat Best which was lovely and a half of the Fat Cat Honey which was very nice too. Small but worthwhile list of foreign beer, shame that with Colchester moving ground I am unlikely to come here again. Top marks. GuideDogSaint - 27 Dec 2007 22:09 |
| I was rather annoyed to see no dark beer on Saturday for an hour or so. I was however pleasantly surprised to see lovely Pitfields '1850 London Porter' there when I returned from Layer Road. I understand some of the previous comments about the beer on the board not always being available. Thinking about it though usually this is on a home match day and all the bar staff are busy serving. There is a small outside not covered area to the left rear of the pub if you need a fag. Dark_Broody_Mild_Lover - 2 Oct 2007 17:49 |
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