Cheshire Cheese, Buxton

The Cheshire Cheese is a long and thin pub with a serving counter mid-way along the rear wall and seating either side. There’s a nice round banquette snug opposite the counter. One of the ten hand pumps on the bar was unused so available were Titanic’s own Steerage, Iceberg, White Star, Plum Porter and First Class as well as Thornbridge’s Bess and Great Outdoors, Everards Tiger and Signature Brew’s EP. My visit was late on a recent Wednesday evening so it was quiet, but the barman was polite enough and I enjoyed another great pint of the porter. I’ll revisit when back in town.

On visiting back in October, I was lucky enough to discover both Cherry Porter and Plum Porter in their Grand Reserve forms available on cask. A half of each had to be done, and set me back £5. Needless to say, both ales were gorgeous and on excellent form here. Food is served, and it was fairly busy on my Thursday afternoon visit towards the tail end of lunch time.

This is a smartly presented pub at the bottom end of town, operated by the ever reliable Titanic Brewery. You enter into a nice quarry stone floored main bar area with dark wood timbers across the ceiling and plain painted, lincrusta walls with a matching dado. The bar is on the rear wall, slightly to the left of the front door, and has a grey tongue and groove panelled counter and simple bar back. There's an awful lot of standing room here with the odd high table and stool breaking the space up a little, whilst nicer seating options can be found in a carpeted space to the left, with comfy banquettes along the front and left walls and some regular chairs in support. All of the tables had a small vase of flowers on them whilst the walls were decorated with various Titanic themed bits and a handy beer board on the back wall. Another such seating area extends to the right and has bookcase-effect wallpaper and a large plain mirror above a nice fireplace on the end wall. There are plenty more seats in here, although first impresions suggested this might be more of a dining area. Titanic beers lead the way on the handpulls, with Plum Porter, Cherry Porter, Iceberg, Steerage and White Star available alongside guests in the form of Everards Tiger, Bradfield Farmers Belgian Blue and Signature Brew Roadie. A friendly barmaid poured me a great pint of the White Star, which I slowly supped whilst trying to properly take this pub in. I've always enjoyed my visits to Titanic pubs and this place was no exception to that rule. I found it to be a well looked after pub, which was reflected in its good quality ale and friendly service. This qas probably the pick of the pubs I visited in Buxton and would be first on my list for a revisit. Date of visit - 17th January 2024

Titanic tied house on the edge of the town centre , GBG2024 listed. Multi space rather than multi room it comprises a series of discrete areas leading off the centre servery. The spaces include popular seating in two bay windows. 10 handpulls with mostly Titanic beers but also a guest from Everards and one from Abbeydale. I didn’t actually spot any keg beers. A right old mix of decorating styles and only a few references to the White Star liner Titanic. Certainly looks like a joint venture of some sort between Everards and Titanic, many glasses were Tiger branded.