Pubs in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire*

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• fort st george on jesus green, not so great for getting pissed or as a local, but nice on a summers day for a nice refreshing drink after a hot walk :)
• the queens head in newton does good adnams
• the red lion in grantchester is great on a summer night, walk there over the fields, get pissed, walk back and feed the cows cold pizza (they LOVE it)
• the empress on thoday street, cracking little pub, friendly landlord no food but good old wooden-floored pub, great atmosphere, awesome locals and students, nice area, real ale.
• the cambridge blue on gwydir street has amazing beer and excellent food.
• the bun shop on king street is pretty good
• The Cow, The Live and let Live. Cambridge's Jazz quarter is the Elm tree and the Cricketers which are right next to each other and both have live Jazz every thursday evening. Both are on Orchard street. To get there go down the alley next to parkside school which is on the north side of parkers piece (the police station side).

• I like the Tram Depot, Prince of Wales,The Eagle, Portland Arms, Fort St George...lots more I can't think of now - been on a few pub crawls that end up pretty pissed & 'lets try this one'(so hazy on some names) had a good time,then ended up in Fez
• Baron of the beef, The mitre
• The Red House at Longstowe, very good food. On A1198 road from Huntingdon to Royston!!
• get a taxis to great shelford - visit the Plough and also the Square - handy kebab van serves you good food till midnight and handy cash machine nearby.
• 'B' Bar on market passage, just next to borders. Classy bar a little expensive but good service and lovely food. Also the bar is over 21s and quite strict so you wont be surounded by the dreded under aged!!
• Man on the Moon
• The Empress on Thoday Street is a cracking little pub to go to if you want a friendly landlord, no food, just a good honest, wooden-floored pub! They are excellent for real ales if you like that sort of thing. Lovely atmosphere with a good mix of Students (APU) and friendly locals. In fact the whole of the Mill Road area has some great eccentric little boozers.

• Six bells, just off Mill road. Mill pond pubs no center town pubs, just full of knobheads
• PURE's OK if you've just robbed a bank and have lots of money, REGAL is cheap so tends to attract all the students, RED COW is good for music and getting hold of a bit of charlie.
• Cambridge certainly doesn't lack pubs. The Zebra does great pizza and has some good guest beers if you like that kind of thing. My favourites in the town are the Hogshead and Quinns (in Downing Street), and I guess I should mention my locals, The County Arms (Great food, especially the fudge cake!) and the Issac Newton (Cheap Beer, big screen for footy)
• the ship pub arbury
• Baron of Beef, henrys (expensive) Vaults on Trinity Steet.
• The Cambridge Blue, for non smokers, the Live and let Live for those who fume.
• Rat and parrot-very expensive but a mature and friendly atmosphere, lots of money in here!!
• The Anchor on Silver Street is absolutely brilliant, home made food in huge portions all for around a fiver & the new scouse manager is a force to be reckoned with as well. The beer's a bit expensive but, well, you pay for quality don't you.
• the cross keys is a very fresh faced crowd.... stick with the eagle and the regal and henry's (if u have the money) and also hogshead cos its great in there.
• Man on the Moon
• Do not go in the Liove and Let live, cliquey, po faced landlord and landlady, very depressing.
• Unfortunately, the Cambridge Arms has closed down and become the Rattle and Scum, which caters more for dance music and sports now. Does get very crowded on Saturdays.
• Portland arms, Man on the Moon. See music venues
• Mitre tavern
• A local pub where people go to drink and relax.
• The Mill. The Anchor is a total rip-off, but it does yummy chocolate fudge cake.
• Your info re the Blue Boar is VERY out of date. It changed it's name at least a couple of years ago to Ha Ha's. And it's not full of posh people, it's full of nice Cambridge town people!
• Go to the EMPRESS on Thoday St. Back street pub with a no food, no nonsense aproach. Beer's good and cheap and you won't get hounded at drinking up time like some places (The Hogshead). Nowhere else in Cambridge have I seen students (Anglia mainly) and locals all rubbing along so nicely!
• Do not hit The Regal on a saturday night if you care about keeping your looks!
• The Maypole, on Park Street. Go say Hello to Mario.
• I like the pub bit in the Bun Shop (King St). And I'll always have a soft spot for the Castle (Castle Hill). I currently favour the Zebra (Maids Causeway). Oh yes, and the Mill and the Granta, esp. in summer, even though they're crowded.
• the Cambridge Blue on gwidir street has excellent beer, but it smells of the school canteen and the food is appalling - over priced and tasteless - my mash was made with water! Now the Kingston on Kingston street is another story...
• to many to mention, Cambridge BLue does best range of bitter though on Gwydir Street and Bun Shop on King St has brilliant house red
• The Flying Pig used to be my favourite passing out spot, but I haven't been there for ages now (since I stopped working next door to it!) The Green Dragon was a good one - next to the river and opposite Stourbridge Common (also just up the road from my house strangely enough).
• A new one - The Regal - has recently been opened by Weatherspoons. It's the biggest in Europe, and is much cheaper than the other overpriced pubs around here, but has no atmosphere. It's good as a starting point before going to a club, but there aren't any clubs worth going to in the area!
• All Bar One has a friendly, relaxed atmosphere. The beers not cheap but then you get what you pay for!
• One of the highest numbers of pubs per area in the country. Where else do you get 2 pubs next door to each other in a couple of locations and many more where they are next door but one?!
• Lots of pubs in Cambridge, some of them actually pretty good! If you can avoid the haw-hawing students.
• The Salisbury Arms off Tenison Road is the best pub in town - the landlord is as miserable as sin - it's GREAT!! The food is excellent and very cheap and you get huge plate loads of chips... the beer is wonderful too and check out the Crones cider.... The juke box has a wide range of stuff and there's a HUGE TV if you're in to watching sport...
• The Queen's Head in Newton does a great pint on Adnams.
• Cambridge's best pubs are a)the Cambridge Blue on Gwydir Street - for a sedate, relaxing night out with excellent beer, no music or pub games. b)The Flying Pig by the War Memorial on Hills Road - also not the most heaving of pubs, but that's what I like. However, does have live music some nights (usually funky), pool table. Dingy lighting and candles good for ugly nights.
• Two great pubs just out of Cambridge for anyone tired of side stepping the cliches of student life (be they Public, State or Foreign) or the invisible earnings of interested Anglophiles - The Queens Head at Newton and The Green Man in Thriplow - both just c 8 miles south of the City - buses have been seen driving passed both these fine pubs (Adnams at The Queens Head and Fine ales at The Green Man - Camera's Best Cambridgeshire Pub 1998)
• The Eagle, Free Press, Cambridge Blue, Champion of the Thames and the Live and Let Live Pubs are pretty good. The Boathouse is pretty cool. Decent selection of beers. Murphy's is my particular favorite.
• There are much nicer pubs in Cambridge than the ones listed, specially if you want to avoid the Cambidge University tossers: the King Street Run and the Cambridge Arms both have wicked jukeboxes and the Run is one of the most cleverly decorated establishments you'll ever visit. They're cheaper too: in the Blue Boar you'll be charged £2.40 a pint which is just ridiculous, but then 45% of the intake of the Cambridge Colleges have mummies and daddies who can afford to pay for their kiddie's vast intake of extortionately priced booze, don't they?
• The Greyhound has entertainment every night of the week.
• The Tram Depot is the best pub in Cambridge, followed by the Acient Druids, and the Hoggs Head.
• Lots. Three Magnets: £1.25 a pint.
• Free Press, nice, comfortable, SMOKE FREE pub.
• The Seven Stars on Newmarket Rd is pretty good. The service is friendly, and gets friendlier the more often you go. There are sometimes pool tournaments and every Saturday night there is a live band, but be careful if the posters say that 'Charis' are going to play coz when they do the place fills with 16 year olds from the local school, Parkside, all getting pissed!
• The Anchor, the Granta, the Bath, the Eagle are great. The Mill is the best in summertime but the drinks are better in the Anchor - you can buy your beer in the anchor and take it through past the punts to the millpond. Avoid the Blue Boar, its full of the posh wankers everyone seems so worried about. Unless they're doing 50p a pint, in which case its full of 16 year olds. The Rupert Brooke and the Red Lion in grantchester - again, got to be done - walk over the fields, get pissed then meander back. by the way the cows who live in the fields on the way to Grantchester like cold pizza.
• I lived round the corner from the Ancient Druids and it was rubbish. They do brew their own ale, though.

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