The Victoria, Rugby

A smashing old school locals pub with an impressive beer range listed by JAQPTIO below, my Abbeydale Deception was nicely kept. Certainly this pub is in the top tree Rugby pubs for me and would demand a visit anytime I found myself in town.

First visit to this fine two bar wedge shaped pub and it rounded off an excellent crawl of the six Rugby town centre pubs in the GBG2024 (or it would have done if we hadn’t broken the walk back to the station by popping back into The Seven Stars for a cheeky last half. ) Still a proper two room set up with a functional public bar with pool table and large screen for the sports and then a much more comfortable lounge and snug room accessed by it own entrance further down the road. There are also a couple of screens in the lounge, but they are not intrusive, and I would have ignored them completely if it wasn’t for the gentlemen we sat next to getting wound up by Manchester United’s performance in their most recent Champions League game. Several hand pumps spread between the two bars and the ales available were those as described in JAQPTIO’s review below. If I had a complaint, it would be that there were no dark beers on and my quest to go dark throughout a cold winter’s day was thwarted right at the end. But I was more than happy to have the Oakham Citra by way of solace, and it also was also on fine form.

Official site of The Victoria - www.downthevic.co.uk

Official site of The Victoria - www.downthevic.co.uk