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The Cottage, Splott, Cardiff
Cardiff
CF24 2AA
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David Walton left this review about The Cottage
Visited 23/02/25
No cask. Keg offering of Doom Bar, Worthington CF, Sharps Atlantic Pale Ale, Guinness, Coors, Stella, Carling, Madri, Magners original and dark fruits.
Local's pub in the Splott area, not too far from the centre of town but an Uber required on a torrential rain evening. The pub is very sport orientated with the area to the left of the entrance housing a couple of intensely occupied pool tables and a dart board, the area served by small round tables and regular chairs, but all here were standing! The bar counter is a three-sided affair with the front part just inside the entrance and having a bare boarded skirt on its three sides with the remainder being carpeted other than the bare boards on which the pool tables sat. Quite a few tall stools dotted around the bar counter. There is a raised area on the right-hand side of the venue well served by TV screens showing afternoon footy replays and another conventional dart board plus one of those electronic darts game also housed on the walls in that area. Whilst the beer choices were limited, thought this was a really decent community pub. Vibrant and a decent option to go and watch sport. Given the obvious LFC affiliation would imagine it would have been bouncing this afternoon.
On 18th March 2025
- rating: 5
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Will Larter left this review about The Cottage
Not to be confused with the attractive Brains pub of the same name on St Mary Street, this is a substantial back street pub in the splendidly named and village-like area of Splott, just outside the city centre and separated from it by the railway tracks, though there is a bridge or two. I called in on my way into town (I was staying at the nearby modern youth hostel), just to see if there was any real ale on. There were a couple of hand pumps, one with no pump clip, the other with Old Speckled Hen. I'd have stopped for a swift half even though the beer is, in my opinion, easily the worst in the Greene King stable, but there was some ear-splittingly loud music dominating the whole pub, which was almost empty at the time, so I turned around and left them to it.
Date of visit: 27th October 2019
On 18th February 2020
- no rating submitted
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