AV IT Bar, Sheffield

This is a pub whose name I was familiar with but not having read the reviews was surprised to find it was the ground floor of a modern building. Inside it is completely open plan with a mix of tall tables and normal ones plus some benches and sofas. For me the interior was as uninspiring as most Spoons but I don't visit Spoons to swoon over the interior but for the beer. The beer selection is certainly the trump card here with not just twelve handpumps but a small room to the right of the bar crammed with bottled beers. The twelve beers included at least five from Abbeydale one of which was a House Devonshire Cat beer, a House Dev Cat Stout by Blue Bee, Two Nottingham Brewery beers and beers by RAW and Revolutions. I went for the Abbeydale Absolution (£3.20) which was in excellent nick. It's not as attractive a place as the old pubs in town but the beer range and quality more than makes up for that.

Large open plan modern pub, pine furniture interior & feels almost chain-like you could be in a Hungary Horse or a Sizzling pub. Superb selection of beers including various local brews, though the quality was slighlty disappointing. Strange place really, but worth a visit.

very nice bright open pub.Great range of beers.Both beers tried were in top condition.My sort of pub.

11 ales on handpump on our visit, plus some beers from Belgium, Holland, Spain, and Germany. I tried a Japanese lager on draught called Kirin Ichiban. On the ale front, I went for Oakwell Barnsley Bitter and a bitter from Pheasantry Brewery Notts. There was also a small shop selling 170 different types of bottled beers. They also serve up good food, which is made from fresh ingredients. Will call again.

As Pub SignMan says, it's a single large room in a modern development. A variety of seating options at tables large and small, as well as very comfortable sofas should restrict the necessity for vertical drinking. At the bar, 2 banks of 6 handpumps offer a wide variety of ales; blackboards above the bar can help you decide. Beer menus are also dotted around and list a large number of quality beers from around the globe. The bar staff are very helpful if you need any advice. The kitchen seems less successful, however, as they seemed somewhat overwhelmed by the pre-Christmas crowds (who had, I presume, pre-booked?). There's no great character to the Devonshire Cat, but it does its job well enough and I'd recommend it.

This is a large single room pub with wooden flooring and half panelled walls which give it something of the feel of a slightly smarter version of a Wetherspoons. There’s a good array of seating across the open floor plan with high tables and stools near the servery, a couple of sofas near the front door and bench and standard seating elsewhere. Some low partitioning walls in a cross shape in the middle of the room break the space up quite effectively and have glass panels with the pub’s cat symbol etched on them. A few beer signs are dotted around the walls, but otherwise the decor is fairly minimal, which is a shame as the place doesn’t have a great deal of character. Music played in the background throughout my stay and many of the other customers were enjoying food from a varied menu which prices main meals around the £8-9 mark. The pub specialises in bottled beers, with a small bottle shop (The Beer Box) next to the bar offering 150 different beers. Cask ale fans are well catered for as well, as there are twelve hand pumps on the bar which on my visit were dispensing Bradfield Devonshire Cat Bitter and Farmers Blonde, Abbeydale Deception, Acorn Delta IPA, Oakwell Barnsley Bitter, Kelham Island Pale Rider, Thornbridge Jaipur, Young’s London Porter, Derby Penny’s Porter and Business as Usual, Phoenix Hopsack and Newsome Trial By Porter. In addition to all that, there is also a wide selection of cider, perry and continental lagers. This is a versatile sort of pub and although it’s not got the ambiance of some of Sheffield’s more traditional ale houses, it more than holds its own on the beer front and should be included on any crawl around the city centre.

Been here with colleagues twice recently and found it a really good place to go for a drink and/or a meal. It doesn’t look anything special from outside, being a modern bar on the ground floor of a block of flats, with an open feel to it and estate pub decor. However it serves a wide range of mainly local real ales from 12 fully populated hand pumps (I found Great Heck Slaughterhouse Porter, Acorn Santiam IPA, Bank Top Pavilion and Thornbridge Sequoia all very tasty) and a wide selection of speciality bottled offerings as well as the usual tap stuff. The food menu is fairly standard pub fare but very well done (we came here to eat first time on our hotelier’s recommendation, and came back because we really liked it). Most customers here seem to be groups of friends or family. In short, I doubt you would choose here to bring a young lady on a first date, but it is a very comfortable place to which you could happily bring anyone on just about any other occasion.

Contemporary open plan interior (a bit like a JDW) with fab looking chip butties being served. On handpull there was Copthorne Classic, Theakston Best, Bradfield Farmer's Blonde, Cottage Clifton Ale, Blue Bee Tangled Up IPA, Phoenix Black Bee Honey Porter, Brew Company Devonshire Cat Pale Ale, Abbeydale Deception, Acorn Sorachi Ace IPA, Oakwell Barnsley Bitter, Kelham Island Pale Rider and Thornbridge Jaipur

Haven't been here for a while although it is still a pub to be visited when on the "Holy City" crawl for real ale. Always has a good selection available, and no fault in beer condition. Chose Cottage and Toad beers this visit. We were in early so it was quiet.

A modern ,open plan bar which I agree does have the look and feel of a 'spoons.The wooden furniture is a little more upmarket.The draw here is the vast beer and lager selection with 12 real ales,some unusual draught lagers and a very extensive menu of bottled beers ,mainly Belgian but with German and American offerings as well.I also liked the glass pannelled beer store room to the right of the bar,where you get a feel for the depth of the bottled stock. I popped in for lunch,and there is a reasonable choice from soup with a cob at £3 to more extensive dishes around £10,many customers were eating. The real ale choice includes a lot from local breweries,and a good choice of styles and my pint of Acorn Sonnet IPA was fine ,possibly not one of Acorn's greatest brews.The pub wasn't busy ,so I didn't experience serving delays mentioned below and although this isn't a traditional pub and the musak is loud , I would have no problem returning in future to sample their beers.