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The Sportsman, Sheffield

57 Benty Lane
Crosspool
Postal town: Sheffield
S10 5NF

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Pub Type

Ember Inns (Mitchells & Butlers)

Reviews (Current Rating Average: 6 of 10) Add Review see review guidelines

Will Larter left this review about The Sportsman

My first visit for nearly three years, prompted by a piece in Pellicle in which the writer claimed to have been told that this pub served the best Timothy Taylor Landlord in Sheffield. She wrote that when she told this to the young man who served her, "he smirked and gave a shrug". I told this story to the young man who served me, and it's got to be said he gave an embarrassed grin and a twitch of the left shoulder.

Even more embarrassed, probably, when it transpired that the Landlord had gone, leaving just Abbeydale Moonshine and Dark Star Hophead. I had the latter in a pub in London recently, but it was better here (NBSS 4) and a bit cheaper (£4.45/pint - with £1 per pint off on Mondays and Thursdays, which seems standard for Ember Inns at present; this is Tuesday though).

I was having a lovely time enjoying my pint in front of the fire, but then Paul McCartney came on the sound system, having a "wonderful Christmas time", so my pub experience rating dropped from 8 to 6 for playing festive season crap in November. I'll be back some time to try the Landlord, but it'll have to wait until the new year.

On 19th November 2024 - rating: 6
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Will Larter left this review about The Sportsman

This is an Ember Inns pub, as the sign outside loudly proclaims. While it's obviously very heavily food-led, there's also a commitment to real ale which I've noticed at other Ember pubs, and the service was very good here too, so there are pluses to counteract the decided minus for me of quite loud music.

There are two banks of six hand pumps here, but two of the beers were settling, so we had a choice of Tetleys Bitter, Timothy Taylor Landlord, Abbeydale Moonshine and Daleside Old Leg Over, the hilariously named beer from North Yorkshire. I went for the Tetleys, too shy as usual to ask for a leg-over, and this was in good condition.

On 21st October 2013 - rating: 6
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