The Vat & Fiddle, Nottingham

Not a particularly inviting exterior (IMHO), being a 1930’s brick rebuild of a Victorian local with accompanying art deco features of the period. But fortunately inside it’s a real proper pub and recommended as a definite first or last visit when travelling from the nearby Nottingham rail station. Already well described by previous reviewers, a friendly comfortable traditional boozer with excellent Castle Rock Ales and the Black Gold and Harvest Pale were excellent pints, the latter fully worthy of its 2010 Champion Beer of Britain status.

Certainly THE place to sample Castle Rock ales,I am not aware of anywhere else with such a full range and in such cracking form.Good to see a bar billiards table in the right hand section,and real pub furniture throughout .A proper brewery tap,not to be missed.