Horse and Groom, Derby - pub details
Address: 48 Elms Street, Derby, Derbyshire, DE1 3HN [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 37341) - calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras
Derby (1.4 miles), Peartree (2.5 miles), Spondon (3.8 miles)
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> Current user rating: 7.6/10 (rated by 9 users)
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user reviews of Horse and Groom, Derby
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| Vastly improved from a few years ago. Good selection of ales and welcoming landlord. ng10 - 10 Aug 2011 08:42 |
| Great back street local. Exactly what a pub should be, serving its local community well but providing interesting beers and live music to entice people to travel from elsewhere. Look out for the occasional beer festival which is worth travelling for. Is a good starting point for a west end crawl. twohalves - 7 May 2011 12:38 |
| Fantastic community pub, hidden away in a pleasant residential areas. Quiet on a Monday, but exceptional quality Bass and a decent atmosphere. Good to see Derby CAMRA focuing on beer quality (the Royal Standard is a didfferent story !) mtaylor40 - 4 Feb 2010 22:48 |
jarofporter seems to have rather missed the point as to why the Horse & Groom was so highly rated in this year’s Derby CAMRA pub of the year. Just look at the facts … It is NOT a Punch Tavern or Enterprise Inn or owned by a national or a locally based brewery. The Horse & Groom was a long closed and semi-derelict pub that would probably have been demolished by now if a young couple, Adam and Sarah, had not had the courage and foresight to invest their life savings to buy and refurbish it. In the “good old days” pubs were at the heart of the community, but as we all know, that has all but been destroyed by the greed of many brewery and pub groups. Yet, against all the odds, in just a year, by dint of sheer hard work and running the kind of pub that people ACTUALLY want, Adam and Sarah have put the Horse and Groom back to where it belongs … in the centre of Derby’s West End community where everyone from 18 to 80 can be sure of a warm welcome and be served with top quality beer. There is an object lesson here for the money grabbing morons who think that they know how to run pubs. In reality they haven’t a clue, which is why so many pubs the length and breadth of the country are sadly being closed and boarded up with alarming regularity. steve2905 - 25 Jul 2009 05:11 |
| Not bad. I would say there are some Derby pubs more deserving of the title of pub of the year runner up. The beer was great though, that's the most important bit. jarofporter - 24 May 2009 23:30 |
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