The Drapers Arms, Canterbury

Official site of The Drapers Arms - drapersarmscanterbury.co.uk

Official site of The Drapers Arms - drapersarmscanterbury.co.uk

This place has changed significantly since as La Trappiste it was reviewed by others, below. It has taken the name of the tailor’s shop that used to be housed in this building and become more of a family diner than a bar. The interior hasn’t changed, but the operating model has – no longer is there a good selection of beers, just the normal megakeg range supplemented by two keg beers, Rebellion IPA and Beavertown Neck Oil, both hideously overchilled, and at £7.00 a pint, overpriced. There is a garden terrace on the upper floor, a range of gins available, while the food looks cliched and unappealing as well as being expensive. I wouldn’t bother coming back until the business changes again.

Attractive continental-style beer café and bakery with various seating / dining areas around the irregularly shaped bar (which benefits from being on a tapered corner plot and having full-height windows on three sides). Decent choice of 12 (mostly Belgian) craft beers on tap and a fine selection of bottled offerings (from which I could have happily chosen almost anything, but copped-out in the end by going for their 'beer of the week', the fine but pricy Paljus Saison at £4.00).