The Kings Arms, Norwich

Double fronted old boozer, a Batemans pub with the majority of beers on the thirteen pulls being theirs, the others made by one cider, a couple of Oakhams, a Sambrookes and a Magpie. Two T-bars and a couple of solos provide a fairly standard keg choice. A couple of pulls were blank. Very traditional other than the pump count, wooden furniture banquette seating board floor, there is the odd high chair and in a side room at the back Britannia tables, chairs and stools. Friendly sort of local with a bubbly barmaid on my visit. Creamy colour scheme on a lot of tongue & groove below plain plastered above, there’s a screen and a small collection of old boxing photos plus a few mirrors and cellar management awards.

A simple local. Basic front bar with a plain no-frills modernisation – choc/mocha colourings and floorboards. Beyond is a simple room and a conservatory off left from that. The whole COVID rule caboodle still going on, like a lot of Norwich. Noted that locally-made sausage rolls, pork pies and scotch eggs were available. 11 pumps with four ales on, 2x Tindall and 2x Batemans - the latter’s XXXB was fairly insipid (NBSS 2). Another disappointing Norwich GBG pub. Visited early August.