The Vine, Derby

A return visit to this delightful old pub, with rather more than the miserable two rooms I counted in 2017 - this time I lost my way and had to ask someone in the third room where the bar could be found. In fact there are two bars and at least two other rooms. The barman was just changing the Pedigree barrel, and this plus the Theakston Lightfoot were duplicated, with the Bass in the room on the right only. I went for the last named, and it was in very good condition. I had a chat with two locals who were watching the cricket on the TV. I mentioned that there were about five times as many people in the Hole in the Wall round the corner, though this is the better pub by a mile, and one of them said that when there's some sport on the TV they want to watch, they all come piling round here and then go back when it's over. (I didn't look in the garden - there may have been more here than were sitting on the pavement outside the Hole, but I reckon this would still have been the less busy pub.) I'm afraid that someone will come along and knock all the walls down in this lovely old pub and make a sports bar out of it.

Official site of The Vine - thevinederby.co.uk

Official site of The Vine - thevinederby.co.uk