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The Rosebery, Norwich
Norwich
NR3 3AB
Served areas
Reviews of The Rosebery (Average Rating: 7½ of 10) see review guidelines
Old Boots left this review about The Rosebery
Old detached pub that’s been opened out and painted bluey grey inside, it looks like it should be a gastro pub but isn’t really, although it serves food. An L shaped counter dominates the centre part of the room, there’s spaces off the right and rear left, the remains of former internal walls are visible in the ceiling. Six pulls confront you on entering, all serving local beers, the other counter face has a run of 10 fairly ordinary keg taps. Some good and interesting bottles and cans are also available, the drinks menu tells you what’s available, blackboards show the keg, cask, wine and cider choices. Nice floor of new tiles in the former entrance corridor and old boards elsewhere, seating is all low tables and chairs in harlequin style. There’s a few pictures on the walls but fairy lights predominate as well as dangly lights over the counter with chandeliers or lights in large wooden cages elsewhere. Decent enough pub when visiting the Duke of Wellington and the Brewery Tap, you could throw in the Whalebone as well but I didn’t.
On 21st April 2024
- no rating submitted
[User has posted 3269 recommendations about 2978 pubs]
Steve C left this review about The Rosebery
The Rosebury is a large Victorian backstreet pub with a row of picnic tables across the front. The entrance leads to a high ceilinged room with blue and white tiling on the floor that runs to the L-shaped bar counter. To the right of the entrance is a parquet flooring area with some rectangular and round four seater tables, and an understated fireplace in the right-hand wall. To the left is floorboarded with more of the same furniture as well as some smaller two seater tables that run from the windowed front down past the bar counter to the rear. Orange hue filament bulbs hang down from the ceiling, their weak light hardly reaching the blue painted walls. The six hand pumps on the bar were drawing Lacun’s Legacy, Redemption Brewing’s Big Chief, Green Jack Brewing’s Little Green Man 1, Shortts Farm Brewery’s The Cure, S&P Brewery’s Darkest Hour and Mr Winter’s Hapi. Premium and craft keg was also available from the friendly staff. There were only a couple of other customers when the seven or so of us entered so they were having quite a sedate afternoon. We soon ended that with talk of blocking toilets and natural selection, much to the annoyance of the nearby Karen who kept glaring at us with a face like a smacked arse.
Having grown up in London I liked it in here because it reminded me of an old local where I used to go on a Saturday lunch to read the paper. However, there are far too many amazing pubs in this corner of Norwich to warrant revisiting this one.
On 28th April 2023
- rating: 7
[User has posted 5243 recommendations about 5211 pubs]
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Tris C left this review about The Rosebery
Another of Norwich’s many backstreet pubs, situated in a pleasant backwater.
The pub has had a substantial makeover, probably during Lockdown when the ‘Lord’ prefix was dropped and unlike any other Norwich pub visited, this looks to have been modelled on a typical Islington/Hackney hipsterfied place, with a smoky blue colour scheme and filament bulbs; you get the picture.
A half of Lacon’s Legacy (£2.20) was decent enough.
Not bad, but if I want to go to a typical London pub… I can remain in London.
On 19th April 2023
- rating: 6
[User has posted 1985 recommendations about 1951 pubs]
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Pub Details
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- Accommodation : Yes last updated 12 September 2021 by Quinno _
- Bar Billiards : No last updated 12 September 2021 by Quinno _
- Beer Festivals : No last updated 12 September 2021 by Quinno _
- Beer Garden : No last updated 12 September 2021 by Quinno _
- CAMRA Discount : Yes - Selected pints at £2.50 on Mondays. - last updated 12 September 2021 by Quinno _
- Car Park : Yes last updated 02 April 2017 by ROB Camra
- Darts : No last updated 12 September 2021 by Quinno _
- Dog Friendly : Yes last updated 02 April 2017 by ROB Camra
- Function Room : No last updated 12 September 2021 by Quinno _
- Hot Food : Yes - Thursday - Sunday - last updated 12 September 2021 by Quinno _
- Jukebox : No last updated 12 September 2021 by Quinno _
- Karaoke : No last updated 12 September 2021 by Quinno _
- Live Music : Yes - Sunday - last updated 02 April 2017 by ROB Camra
- Live TV Sports : No last updated 12 September 2021 by Quinno _
- Micropub : No last updated 12 September 2021 by Quinno _
- Pinball : No last updated 12 September 2021 by Quinno _
- Pool Table : No last updated 12 September 2021 by Quinno _
- Quiz Night : Yes - Tuesday - last updated 01 November 2018 by Will Larter
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 12 September 2021 by Quinno _
- Real Cider : Yes last updated 12 September 2021 by Quinno _
- WiFi : Yes last updated 12 September 2021 by Quinno _
