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Hallcross, Doncaster
Doncaster
DN1 3NL
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Will Larter left this review about Hallcross
Not a traditional pub, the Hallcross brewpub opened in December 1981, having been converted from an old baker's shop. The brewery and its pubs were sold in 1996, but the beers were revived in 2018 and are brewed by Wellbeck Abbey. The Old Horizontal is a strong ale while the Select Best Bitter is described as a Kentish bitter - not something that is normally brewed in these parts. I was here last August, finding it much as described in the previous review, and liked it enough to recommend a visit with a couple of mates a few weeks later. They enjoyed the music rather more than the beer, I seem to recall. I can remember hearing Cum On Feel the Noize - it's unusual to hear Slade on the background music in pubs, unless it's Christmas, of course.
Date of visit: 6th October 2022
On 11th April 2023
- rating: 7
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about Hallcross
The Hallcross is located on a busy traffic junction and doesn't exactly look too inspiring from the outside. It has the look and feel of a late night bar/nightclub. However, the external appearance is deceptive. Inside, there is a much more traditional feel. There is one large room, with a slightly raised area to the left-hand side. The bar itself is against the left wall towards the rear and is at quite an uncomfortable height. You have to peer up at the bar staff from down below! Around the room are a number of TV screens. One was showing the horse racing at nearby Doncaster racecourse. I don't recall what another was showing, whilst others were off.
The old Stocks beers are back, albeit now brewed by Welbeck Abbey. Their Best Bitter, St Leger Gold & Old Horizontal were all on, along with 3 guest beers - Brewster's Hophead, Rudgate York Chocolate Stout & Jolly Boys Supa-Citra. I did enquire about real cider. Whilst they had try to stock Weston's Old Rosie & Lilley's Mango Cider, neither had proved to be big hits. So, there is no longer any real cider.
As with Old Boots, I didn't manage to get to the garden. Whilst I did explore the corridor to the toilets, I missed the function room too! But, after a poor initial impression, I quite warmed to this place and will most likely return some day.
On 9th September 2022
- rating: 6
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Old Boots left this review about Hallcross
Recently refurbished it's a large single room in basic Victorian style, there is a raised area to each side with cast iron balustrades, as well as dark wood, bare boards and leather covered bench seating. Furnished with traditional wooden furniture and cast iron base tables, the large clear windows, big screens and foreground music are less traditional. The rather tall counter is to one side with six pulls on this occasion three from Stocks Brewery, one from Abbeydale, Tetleys cask and a cider, usual national kegs also available. The Stocks Best Bitter was competently kept but unexciting, definitely a BBB, while the Old Horizontal was more interesting. There's a (claustrophobic) function room at the back and supposedly a garden which I didn't explore.
On 4th March 2019
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hondo . left this review about Hallcross
Large open plan pub. The pub has a pool table & was advertising live music. 1 real ale on during my visit.
On 27th April 2013
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