The Cavern of the Curious Gnome, Chester

Visited on a recent Saturday evening. 4 cask + 14 keg beers to choose from. The beer list is projected onto a wall behind the bar so nice and easy to see. There are games available on the windowsill. Very busy at the time of our visit but no issues getting served and we managed to find a corner to loiter in with our drinks. Once you realise that access is through Paysan then no issues finding the place, though it did confuse me when I was first having a mooch round Chester a few years ago trying to find it! There is a large gnome keeping a watchful eye over the bar, and I do wonder whether the gnome came first and that's how the place got its name, or whether the name came first and the gnome was a later purchase to continue the theme! Toadstool type stools at the bar, as others have observed in previous reviews. I like this place and would be happy to return.

a CAMRA man’s dream above a rubbish wine bar - it is indeed a nightmare to find if you haven’t been before. Four real ales were Titanic Cappuccino Stout. Beatnikz Republic 2am Poet, Oakham Citra and Anarchy Brew Co Invaders Dream (very nice). Shitloads of foreign bottles catalogued in their beer menu from countries including Austria, Norway and three pages of Belgium. i propped up the bar on a toadstool and quite took to this place despite my initial reservations about the name sounding like a terrible prog rock album.