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The Remarkable Hare, Matlock
Matlock
DE4 3LT
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 6 of 10) see review guidelines
Graham Coombs left this review about The Remarkable Hare
A big pub in a former hotel with a strong focus on food. Furnishings are quite eclectic with a modern twist and there are several rooms, including a restaurant at the rear. 6 handpumps offer a fair and changing selection of ales - that sampled was adequate but not great. One of those places that seems to tick all the boxes yet somehow doesn't quite work as a whole. It's more of a trendy eatery that somewhere I would choose to go and drink. Incidentally the former MoCa that they took over next door is now a barbecue restaurant with no bar.
On 15th November 2025
- rating: 6
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ROB Camra left this review about The Remarkable Hare
The only thing remarkable about this place was how much money they've spent on quality furniture and yet still ended up with a crap pub. There's a table in front of the bar, so you can't get to it and the rest was covered up by ignorant bar leaners. The barman was useless, and that's being polite, he was much worse than that. Once we did eventually get served I was given an almost totally flat pint, which did taste OK to be fair. We then went and sat at one of the giant, uncomfortable tables and listened to the braying idiots that comprise the locals. It's not for us, so we left them to it.
On 16th June 2023
- rating: 3
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Will Larter left this review about Remarkable Hare
This former large hotel, in a remarkable building, has been split into various businesses. The MoCa Bar is well established on the left, and the central part, which seems likely to have been the main hotel entrance and foyer, has now been made into another real ale pub. The room has been well described below, but I would just add that there are some interesting framed prints which are based on the book covers of some classic novels. A small group of locals was congregated about the bar when I arrived, but they were happy to make room for me to look over the beers on offer. I went for the Tollgate Old Rasputin 4.5% which was perhaps a little past its best; on another visit in the same week two of us went for Derby Triple Hop 4.1% which was in good condition but a very strange beer, where the English hops had been treated like New World hops; that is, they'd been used for aroma rather than bitterness, so that the beer really did taste like grass cuttings and twigs. This is an interesting addition to the Dale Road real ale scene (with Twenty Ten across the road as well as the previously mentioned MoCa next door).
On 14th December 2018
- rating: 6
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Real Ale Ray left this review about Remarkable Hare
This was another excellent ale drinkers paradise, with a range of eight ales on handpump. The pub has a large front room and a ginormous back room with a grand piano in one corner and an upright piano in the opposite corner. The front room consists of the bar facing you as you enter, which was in oak, a log burning stove which was lit on our visit and an oak floor. The walls were painted in browns and turquoise, which I liked.
The barmaid was friendly and chatty, along with a couple of locals at the bar. I went for the Peak Ales Chatsworth Gold, which was spot on.
On 13th December 2018
- rating: 8
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