The Malt Shovel, Beeston - pub details
Address: 1 Union Street, Beeston, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG9 2LU [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 29003) - calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras
Beeston (0.4 miles), Attenborough (1.7 miles), Nottingham (3.3 miles)
Pub facilities/features:
- Food served, Real ale
Pub suggested by norgor on 2 May 2006
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> Current user rating: 7.1/10 (rated by 16 users)
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user reviews of the Malt Shovel, Beeston
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| Good beer and a fairly ordinary interior. Quiet. Very quiet... dpaajones - 4 Mar 2011 09:59 |
| Average beer selection and miserable bar staff. Is usually quite dead, so you can generally snag the sofa in the snug at the back. Live pub bands often play. The building is nice, but the beer garden is a bit dismal. MX7 - 24 Jul 2010 15:48 |
| Presuming I called in during a power cut and the pub was in complete darkness the service was excellent, Luckily the fact there was no electricity didn't affect the two lush handpump beers i quaffed(Nottingham Brewery - Rock Mild & Everards Tiger),All in all a great ale pub with 4 handpumps, 8/10 fat_beer_badger - 22 May 2010 21:59 |
| landlord has had a personality bypass should try harder could be a great little pub with the right team running it bellerophon - 14 May 2010 22:36 |
| Small but fantastic Looking Pub. Open Plan works much better than the old (bar and lounge) layout all those years ago. Good guest beers on tap - trouble is they always seem to be "off" halfway through the evening. Plenty of Castle Rock though, which is consistently mediocre. Staff friendly but slow - but then again there are often only two of them and the place does get very busy. Went for Sunday lunch there and found the landlord to be very accomodating for the needs of small children. Wed night quiz has gone downhill over the last year: Donna used to do a decent quiz every week, where you always had a laugh. Quiz now left to well meaning amateurs, i.e. one of the bar staff (who struggles, bless him) or the winning quiz team from the week before! BEWARE: winning quizzers now have prize witheld from them until the following week and are "asked" to set the quiz the week after in order to collect their prize 7 days after. And if you don't (or can't) be there to set the quiz they won't give you your prize! Bizarre! In 2o years of quizzing I have never known any pub to do this. Request it maybe but not demand that you host an evening of entertainment for them as a pre-condition of being allowed to have the prize you won 7 days before. And they are not particularly polite about it either (particularly the landlord). Shame as this used to be one of my favourite pubs in Beeston - still is, but not for the quiz. moribund - 6 Oct 2009 10:23 |
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