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Albert Sports Bar, Retford
Retford
DN22 6JB
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 5½ of 10) see review guidelines
Strongers . left this review about Albert Sports Bar
Albert Sports Bar, or Albertos as it’s otherwise known, has an L-shaped serving counter on the rear wall where premium and standard keg was available from a mardy young barmaid during a recent midweek evening visit. Thankfully the sports loving locals were friendlier, I ended up in a best of three darts match with one on the board up the right of the counter where the surround is brilliant. High tables are found up the left of the counter and there’s a pool table across the front windows. Unsurprisingly televisions throughout were airing sports television. This is maybe not somewhere that would be included in a crawl of the area, but as a sports destination it’s great and I’d revisit if I was in town when the Bees were on the box.
On 20th February 2026
- rating: 6
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Old Boots left this review about Albert Sports Bar
Also known as Albertos, it claims to be Retford's premier sports bar. It has a few screens, machines which occupied the bar staff, and a pool table. There’s a couple of big photo montages on the walls showing various sports. A single square room with a U shaped servery in the middle, high seating down each arm of the U. Two horseshoes with a solo and a double Cruzcampo have a single hand pump lurking in the middle. It dispensed a frighteningly cold Batemans Gold but not vinegar as I feared given the surrounding lager drinkers. A back street boozer best left to the locals.
On 12th February 2026
- no rating submitted
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Graham Coombs left this review about Alberto's
The closest surviving pub to the station and originally the Albert Hotel, this little backstreet boozer has become more of a sports bar with TV screens and a pool table in a very dated interior refurb featuring lots of spurious stonework. They did at least show a bit of marketing nous, with a sign outside advertising Bateman’s XB on offer at £3 a pint, while the solitary handpump on the bar was dispensing Ringwood Razorback in fair condition. Quite a friendly place, and some corned beef rolls left over from the previous evening were offered and gratefully received, but a ‘To Let’ sign outside means things may change here.
On 1st December 2024
- rating: 6
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Will Larter left this review about Alberto's
This looks like it must have been a proper pub at one time, but its non-traditional name and present decor suggest a different route has been taken. There's lots of internal stone cladding - walls, pillars, even the bar counter! Floorboards have been laid diagonally and the overall feel of the place is wine bar or circuit drinking venue: high tables near the bar, chunky pine tables in the dining area, Sky Sports News on two large screens. The brewery insignia on display outside the pub (Deuchars, Copper Dragon, Black Sheep) suggest a beer festival might have taken place, but if so they've all been drunk off, leaving just two hand pumps with only Timothy Taylor Golden Best.
Date of visit: 2nd April 2013
On 29th November 2017
- rating: 5
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