The Salisbury Arms, Cambridge - pub details
Address: 76, Tenison Rd, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB1 2DW [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 917 0007 (ref 19465)
Cambridge (0.4 miles), Shelford (3.7 miles)
Pub facilities/features:
- Real ale
Pub suggested by Acid Sorceror on 18 Feb 2004
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> Current user rating: 6.8/10 (rated by 14 users)
> Local guides: Cambridge pub guide, Cambridgeshire pub guide
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user reviews of the Salisbury Arms, Cambridge
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| Pub looks very small from the outside but once you go in it's rather long and spacious. As other reviewers have noted, there are 2 bar areas, each with all the available handpumps, but one has the little overhead spotlights turned off, from which you are somehow supposed to guess you won't get served if you stand at this particular bar. Very odd- someone isn't thinking about this from the customer's point of view. Good range of beers on offer, and the food, which I wasn't able to sample, looked great- all the traditional pub favourites, nothing pretentious. They just need to sort out the slightly strange business at the bar to make this the top pub in this part of Cambridge. edchambers - 17 Oct 2008 22:14 |
| Staff very rude and unfriendly. They refused to serve a glass of water when ordering food and alcoholic drinks and were very aggresive in their approach. Won't be going back! src29 - 12 Oct 2008 12:20 |
| I stand corrected on the beer range - improved between my last visit (some months ago) and the most recent (last weekend). Beer very good, place rammed with students, food took ages (but it was very busy, although we were denied cutlery as we were eating outside!) and was ok, but I still saw people being ignored at the end of the bar I'm afraid. Maybe the sign isn't obvious enough and the pumps and lighting confuse people? JHB still the only 'local' brew (Peterborough), so I think that comment was fair. Black Bull very good though. Would be nice to see some Cambridge, Nethergate or Elgoods beers. Angry ripostes by staff on here to personal opinions based on prior experience not an incentive to return. A polite correction could have done. Makes one wary of taking concerns to the bar at the time of visiting! mafting - 15 Sep 2008 17:33 |
| REPLY TO PREVIOUS POST CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM IS ALWAYS WELCOME AS IT HELPS US IMPROVE AND MAINTAIN STANDARDS,IT IS A SHAME THAT MAFTING SEEMS SOMEWHAT CONFUSED,AND CHOOSES TO MISREPRESENT THE FACTS.AT THE TIME OF POSTING HIS/HER REVIEW THE EIGHT BEERS ON SALE WERE ST AUSTELL TRIBUTE HOPBACK SUMMER LIGHTNING THEAKSTONS BLACK BULL RINGWOOD HUFFKIN ADNAMS BROADSIDE CHARLES WELLS BOMBARDIER CHARLES WELLS EAGLE OAKHAM JHB YES MAFKING TWO WELLS BEERS OUT OF EIGHT ,BUT IT IS A CHARLES WELLS PUB. YES ONE FROM ADNAMS OH AND BY THE WAY OAKHAM JHB,LOCAL ENOUGH FOR CAMBRIDGE CAMRA BUT NOT FOR YOU. THE TOP BAR WAS NOT ILLUMINATED FULLY AND THE NOTICE EXPLAINING NO BEERS ARE AVAILABLE FROM THAT BAR IS STILL THERE AS IT HAS BEEN SINCE LAST YEAR. YOU STATE NUMEROUS TIMES YOU HAVE SEEN THINGS YET EVEN THOUGH YOU ARE DISSATISFIED YOU KEEP RETURNING. YOU ARE CORRECT IN SAYING FOOD IS SERVED BUT YOU DONT SAY IF YOU HAVE EATEN OR NOT,OUR FOOD IS FRESHLY COOKED NOT KEPT WARM SO TO SOMEONE WHO USES PHRASES LIKE "PRETTY YOUNG THINGS" IT MAY APPEAR TO TAKE A WHILE.THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS AND CUSTOM. pubguv - 14 Sep 2008 02:39 |
| This pub gets local accolades, and it's not bad, though there are much better in Cambridge. Plus points: good for the station youngish crowd of pretty young things and students good juke box beer quality good large negatives: Often packed. Beer range limited to mostly Charles wells/Adnams stable. No local beers. Bad service - there is a long bar that is separated by a partition, and despite it all being lit they only serve at one end of the bar and ignore you if you stand at the other. Numerous times i have seen people totally ignored by the staff as they wash glasses right next to them, when they could simply say or put a sign that there is no service at that end of the bar. It's not rocket science and people get quite wound up when it's busy. Food is served, but can take a long time and is only 'ok' rather than great. mafting - 12 Sep 2008 20:31 |
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