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The Raven, Bath
Bath
BA1 1HE
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 7½ of 10) see review guidelines
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John Bonser left this review about Raven
Centrally located down a side street in the heart of the City is The Raven, a free house that proudly proclaims itself as CAMRA Local Pub of the Year 2010.
The building comprises two 18th century buildings joined together that have been knocked through to create a single bare boarded bar that features much light pine wood panelling.
It’s a pleasant, if rather unremarkable, interior with an additional bar upstairs which, so I gather, is food orientated, with pies a speciality.
On my recent early evening visit, 6 beers were on, which included 3 Raven Beers, brewed exclusively for the pub by Blindmans Brewery of nearby Frome. Also on were Castle Rock Harvest Pale Ale, Cotswold Spring Honey Bear and Moles Tap. The latter, at £ 2.90p for an ABV of 3.5% was an acceptable pint. The pub is a CAMRA Good Beer Guide regular.
Worth including in any crawl of Bath’s city centre pubs
On 26th November 2010
- rating: 7
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Malden man left this review about Raven
A small room with the bar opposite on entering but with more accommodation upstairs. Wooden floor, high backed wooden benches, small stools plus a few bar stools. Half panelled walls, Some wood carvings as decoration, loads of pump clips over the bar. A few books on a shelf providing reference material plus a selection of tourist leaflets and local magazines.
Another Bath pub with a friendly welcome and interested, knowledgeable staff. Great beer, three pub brews apparently brewed exclusively by Blindmans Brewery, Raven, Stark Raven...dark... and Raven's Gold. Also available were Castle Rock Screech Owl, Moles Molegrip, Cottage Shadow and Honey's Midford Cider. Beers rotated/changed immediately on going off.
Local Camra POTY 2010 and a regular GBG entry, this is an essential stop if visiting Bath. The food menu includes speciality pies from Pie Minister, and home made soup of the day, on the occasion, spicy root vegetable, served with a choice of bread or chips.
All beer is served in lined pint glasses, so no issues here with requesting top ups. Just superb.
On 18th November 2010
- rating: 8
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I L left this review about Raven
Was busy when we visited but managed to find a small table and seats in the narrow downstairs bar area. Had a good range of ales on. The ones we had were well kept. certainly on our list of must do pubs when next in Bath.
On 18th August 2010
- rating: 8
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ROB Camra left this review about Raven
Two floor pub with a bar on each floor, very busy and buzzy on both of the occasions we called in. There are wood panelled walls, high backed settles and lots of stools around the place. Upstairs has mainly tables and chairs. We sat at the bar downstairs the first time we called, very friendly and chatty staff, efficient as well. 6 handpumps on the downstairs bar, Raven and Raven Gold are brewed for them by Blindmans Brewery, plus 3 guest beers and a real cider. Had four pints here over 2 days including the two house brews and all were excellent. It’s a great little place.
On 27th April 2010
- rating: 8
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an_ ecumenical_matter left this review about Raven
Visited twice in a week about 2 weeks ago.
First visit found a book club meeting upstairs so downstairs where we ended up was packed,the beer from Butts was only "OK" and was served by a sour barman. Left after one.
Second trip found very good Yeovil beer but again service from another gruff barman who was only interested in watching the clock (We arrived after egg chasing at 1745). HOWEVER the whole atmosphere changed on the arrival of a friendly and industrious dark haired South African barwoman,I wonder is it her who is referred to in the review below(probably). Make this woman the manager Fr Jack says and let her kick the arses of the lazy ones!!! Had several pints!!! Well done lass.
30 November 2008
Gents have been successfully hosed as previously reported. Yeovil and Stonehenge ales on Thursday night were tip top,barman was pleasant. £2.70 for ale which can be described at ample these days.A good place to go.
On 1st February 2010
- rating: 7
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Nigel Sheppard left this review about Raven
A selection of 8 real ales in good condition, well worth a visit.
On 27th January 2010
- rating: 8
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paulof horsham left this review about Raven
Cosy little city-centre Free House (and I do mean little). Apparently, there's an upstairs bar, but I didn't explore sufficiently to find that - I sat downstairs in a small bare-boarded room.
2 house beers are supplied by Blindmans (Raven & Raven Gold), as well as another 3/4 pumps - the Raven Gold is a fine pint.
Full marks to The Raven for publicity - you can find a leaflet in the Tourist Information Centre's racks. Free WiFi is also available.
On 12th November 2009
- rating: 6
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Clive Thompson left this review about Raven
One of my favourite Bath pubs mainly due to it's range of interesting beers, and I wasn't aware that there was an upstairs bar with more. I like the sparse décor and no-nonsense approach, you‘re not here to have a coke or to milk the fruit machine, you're not here to sit with a coffee watching daytime TV, you're here to drink beer. CAMRA and local attraction leaflets available in a bookcase for browsing. Didn't try the food but the menu looked a bit expensive.
10 February 2008
Don't remember a great deal about this pub as we were coming towards the end of a Bath crawl in the New Year. I do however recall friendly service, a good range of beers being on offer and having an excellent pint of the 6% Stark Raven Xmas from the Blindmans Brewery (I think).
On 8th October 2009
- rating: 9
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