The Old Grindstone, Crookes, Sheffield

This pub has had a very smart refurbishment, with red, orange and yellow paint on the walls and ceilings, the same colours appearing in the carpet and upholstery in garish zig-zag patterns. The bar has four hand pumps, including the Greene King IPA high pour one, and all pumps and fonts display the price per pint, which is a useful innovation. (Though my half of a £2.45 pint came to £1.30, so there's some faulty arithmetic there.) The other beers were from Hydes, Belhaven and White Horse. The pub is an open plan affair, with pillars and level changes breaking it up into distinct areas. Past the bar is an area where the floor above has been removed leaving an atrium-like space with high beams and skylights. Past this there are both a pool table and a (three-quarter size?) snooker table, both very new-looking and well lit. There were some TVs in different areas, none too dominant, and the background music did not compete too strenuously with the conversation and laughter I could hear from the mostly young customers who were obviously having a good time. This was the busiest of the pubs I visited in Crookes on this occasion and I wouldn't have a problem about coming here again, maybe as part of a Crookes crawl.