Graze Inn, Ecclesall Road, Sheffield

The Graze Inn is a modern looking bar that is painted in battleship grey. Once inside the bar room is to the left,this is an oblong shaped room with the bar facing,there were a few red metal chairs and tables to the right,a few leather settes in the middle area and a long wood bech seat on the left side,there is a seperate restaurant up a step to the right. There were four pumps on the bar with three in use,i had a drink of Thornbridge Wild Swan which was ok but nothing special,the other beers were Thornbridge Lord Marples and Thornbridge Brother Rabbit. This seemed a pleasant enough bar to have drink in early dinnertime. Pub visited 19/4/2014

Official site of Graze Inn - www.grazeinn.co.uk

I was here on a busy Friday night, which is not a night I would usually go to a circuit bar like this - far too busy and noisy, both with very loud music and with people shouting at each other - not in anger, just conversation. The pub is much the same as when it was Champs, except that the TV screens which used to show multiple sporting events have followed the brand down the road to its new location. The light grey paint is a nod to the gastro-pub ethic that Graze Inn's name implies, and to cap it all the lamp shades seem to have been fashioned from twigs. There are four hand pumps on the bar, as far as I could make out through the crush. All the beers are from Thornbridge, my least favourite brewery - three on hand pump (Lord Marples, Brother Rabbit and White Swan) plus Jaipur on keg. I had a half of the Brother Rabbit, and this started off as very bland but developed a taste of grapefruit as I went further down the glass, ending with a quite revolting lemon flavour. Not my cup of tea at all.

Official site of Graze Inn - www.grazeinn.co.uk