Victoria Hotel, Nottingham

Official site of Victoria Hotel - vichotelbeeston.co.uk

Official site of Victoria Hotel - vichotelbeeston.co.uk

What a splendid pub! A fine place for an afternoon of talking nonsense with friends and enjoying a few beers. An excellent selection of ales on offer, including a stout, and all at very good quality and reasonable prices (Harvest Pale at £4.50). Access direct to the garden from the Nottingham-bound station platform and, for the benefit of Quinno (below) from the westbound platform access is along the path behind the platform and then over the footbridge - no backstreets involved!

Smashing old place on the CAMRA Inventory (**) and the closest pub to the train station as well (though it’s a circuitous backstreet route if the platform gate is locked). Tap room is on the right off the entry porch. Left are the busier daytime rooms which are more food-focused. There are working brass taps on the bar with running water. Daily papers and proper fires to settle yourself in for session. A set of nine ales though relatively samey in style, I didn't see anything dark. My Blue Monkey BG Sips was lively enough (NBSS 3.5) and a Shipstone Gold later on before the train was par (3). Also a selection of continental draft and plus cider and perry to have a go at. Very nice place, probably the second best in show that day in Beeston. A shame there wasn’t a dark ale there, otherwise I’d have definitely settled on a full 9. As it is, 8.5.

A fine looking and somewhat imposing red bricked late Victorian pub. There are several rooms inside worthy of investigation. There were some eight or nine cask beers available in a range of styles, I plumped for Burton Bridge Stairway To Heaven which was in good form. There are a lot of good pubs in Beeston and this one belongs near the top of the list.

Old fashioned looking brick building from the outside, on the back of the station platform. Inside its beautifully restored, different areas, interesting menu and good choice of beers. Well worth a visit