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The Salutation, Doncaster
Doncaster
DN1 2DR
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about The Salutation
Interesting-looking Greene King pub on the eastern edge of the town centre, that is less appealing than one might expect inside the remodelled and refurbished multi-space interior. Full of football ephemera for the delayed Euro 2021 competition, with a number of large TV screens showing a live match. However, nobody seemed to interested in that, but it was still doing very good business early on a Saturday evening, and there were plenty of staff taking table-service orders and managing the other coronavirus restrictions. With six of the seven handpumps in use, I just found Old Speckled Hen from the owning brewery, plus Black Sheep, Landlord, Abbeydale Moonshine, Stancill's Stainless (£3.80) and Rosie's Pig cider.
On 4th July 2021
- rating: 7
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hondo . left this review about The Salutation
The pub is on the route from the town centre to the racecourse serving up to 6 real ales and food. The pub has brewery and sporting memorabilia on the walls and a function suite upstairs.
On 27th October 2014
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Old Boots left this review about The Salutation
In a refined terrace of Georgian buildings it's an odd sort of pub. Comprising a large open plan space in a mock Victorian basic style but with a ceiling in fake beams and rough plaster which looks a bit weird and out of place. Otherwise a pleasant drinking environment with comfortable bench seating at small square tables with cast iron bases. Seven pulls on the long counter to one side, one pump is dedicated to cider, the others in use had smaller brewers from within 70 miles, mine was in very acceptable condition. There's a big screen and a machine, the continuous music is as ever a pain if it's not to your taste - this wasn't being 1980s pop. Interesting advert in the gents about Houdini doing his Chinese water trick in a tank of Tetleys!
On 10th October 2014
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Pub SignMan left this review about The Salutation
This is a smart, single room pub located in a pleasant part of town, just a short walk from the centre. The place seems to have been opened out into the one large room from a previous multiple room format, as certain areas have their own characteristics. You enter into a quarry stone floored space with a seating area immediately to the left. There are a few banquettes here and the walls have been decorated with some framed beer mats and a large Tetley’s mirror. To the right is the main part of the pub, with bare floorboards, dark wooden beams running across a white ceiling and exposed stonework on the front wall giving it a traditional feel that might otherwise have been lost along with the partitioning. The servery runs down the right hand wall and has a pleasant bar back whilst old pictures and bits of brewerania are dotted around providing a bit of visual distraction. The highlight of this is a collection of old illuminated keg fonts from years gone by, which line a high shelf near the bar. In the rear right corner, the pub extends further back into a small carpeted dining area with a couple of banquettes flanking a nice fireplace which has been lined with various trophies won by the pub’s sports teams. A TV screen on the back wall was showing a promotional video on a loop whilst a juke box provided some background music.
A decent line up at the bar allowed me to choose from Osset Pale Gold, Pheasantry Dark Ale, Black Sheep Bitter, Leeds Midnight Bell and Adnams Explorer as well as Weston’s Old Rosie cider. I gave the Dark Ale a try and thought it was a fairly decent drink in good condition.
This is a pleasant, welcoming pub that is worth the short walk out of town to find. There was a nice atmosphere building on my early Saturday evening visit and I imagine it would be a good place to enjoy a lengthier session as well as a worthy addition to any crawl around town.
On 30th September 2013
- rating: 7
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Quinno _ left this review about The Salutation
Located in a rather plush part of Donny in an attractive old building that, sadly, doesn’t quite present the majestic interior you might have hoped for and instead is a fairly pedestrian affair, almost chain-bar like in places although you get the feeling that once upon a time this would have been quite a cosy, multi-roomed coaching inn based on the dog-leg part of the layout. Four ales and a cider on the go, perhaps less adventurous than some other pubs in the town but still enough to tempt. My Osset Silver Fox was in fair condition. Various brewerania (the collection of old keg fonts will shiver some timbers) and DRFC memorabilia scattered around. Not in the premier league of Donny pubs but worth seeking out on an extended crawl. I'll give it a 7 as I can't do 6.5!
On 31st August 2012
- rating: 7
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Will Larter left this review about The Salutation
A very nice old building that has been chopped up inside on several different occasions - the bar person showed us where the remnants of one bar position are still detectable in the ceiling plaster, and a local recalled a time when it was in yet another part of the room. The ceiling has been rough-plastered and had rough-hewn ornamental joists added to it. It's an old Tetleys heritage inn, so still quite pleasant if not exactly authentic.
The seven hand pumps featured one cider and four ales on our Tuesday afternoon visit. Two of the ales were from Copper Dragon, the others being Thornbridge and Black Sheep, a reasonable if slightly unadventurous choice. Definitely the place to stop off for a beer on your way to or from the racecourse.
On 9th May 2012
- rating: 6
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John Bonser left this review about The Salutation
A shortish stroll out from the town centre takes us to The Salutation a largish prominent building dating back to 1778 and which was a coaching inn on what was formerly The Great North Road.
The pub is located in what appears to be one of the nicer parts of Doncaster – several leafy squares, period houses now occupied by legal firms etc.
The feeling that we may be about to enter a reasonably salubrious establishment is reinforced by a notice on the front door telling us that “due to the atmosphere and nature of The Salutation, no large groups are permitted within the premises”. It was therefore something of a surprise and disappointment to enter into a rather chainy, dark bare boarded, interior typical of many town centre circuit pubs. We quickly discover that it belongs to the Punch Taverns pub portfolio.
The interior features on large bar with different drinking areas and decorated with, inter alia,brewery posters – the standard Hobgoblin one being particularly prevalent – and some framed Doncaster Rovers football shirts and photos. Of particular note is a newspaper cutting showing Ray Clemence letting in a soft goal in a game against Doncaster. Apparently Doncaster Rovers football team used this pub as changing rooms for a time in days long gone, but I didn’t see any reference to this anywhere. One corner houses a fireplace over which are an impressive array of quiz trophies. There’s several old photos/ plans of the pub’s layout in former times, but the overall feeling is one of disappointment in an interior that doesn’t fit in with the imposing exterior and the age of the building.
On the beer front, interestingly, the pub was hosting a Meet The Brewer evening on April 28th, with the Fullers team due to put in an appearance. There’s 7 handpumps and beers on included Barnsley Acorn Bitter, Marstons EPA and Spitfire. The Acorn Bitter – at a rather pricey £ 2.75p – was, perhaps surprisingly – pretty good. The pub is listed in the CAMRA 2011 Good Beer Guide.
I didn’t particularly dislike this pub, but I prefer the more old fashioned basic pubs nearer the station – see previous postings for details.
On 6th April 2011
- rating: 7
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James Joines left this review about The Salutation
Upto 7 rotating cask ales.
On 2nd March 2011
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