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The Renfield Bar, Glasgow
Glasgow
G2 1NQ
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 6½ of 10) see review guidelines
Strongers . left this review about The Renfield Bar
On my way into Renfield Bar on a recent Monday late afternoon I ended up in a conversation with two drunken locals who were smoking on the street by the entrance. They were very amusing and a little more friendly than the other locals in the pub, who were equally pissed but were keeping themselves to themselves. Standard keg and Birra Moretti were available, so I ended up with a pint of Tennents, just like everyone else. I sat at one of the tables up the left wall that run either side of a stone fireplace while I noted more seating across the front windows and the counter that runs up the right. In the rear are some high tables next to a dartboard and the two televisions were airing the Chase. There’s not a lot to this small bar, but it’s how I always imagined a Glasgow bar to be before I first visited a few years ago.
On 10th December 2024
- rating: 6
[User has posted 5965 recommendations about 5931 pubs]
Will Larter left this review about The Renfield Bar
It was fairly quiet mid-afternoon when I called in. No real ale, of course, but half a dozen malts gave me the option of a Highland Park. This feels like a traditional bar, with stained wood panelling on the walls and bar, a pot-bellied stove in a rough chimney breast, and modern floorboards. An eclectic music track was playing, but it was outdone in eccentricity by the display of mostly random pictures on the walls. A couple of reproduction oils of racehorses were the only sign of consistency. Others varied from a 19th admonition to pay up in the pub, with the slogan, "pay today, trust tomorrow", to a Daily Sketch cartoon from 1941 illustrating how stout British seasiders would deceive the invader by having their deck chairs and candyfloss stalls propped up by underwater pillars, while the German troops plunged to their doom beneath the waves. If only it was that easy.
On 14th November 2024
- rating: 6
[User has posted 4273 recommendations about 3935 pubs]
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Thomas Girvan left this review about The Renfield Bar
Went over to Glasgow for a bowling weekend, we went out for a few jars. After being treated very rudely at Lauders Pub we went down the street to the Renfield.
A great night's craic with the karaoke and the friendly staff and customers. We went back the next day, it is a no nonsense bar that shows off the best of Scottish hospitality.
I shall be back!
On 7th August 2016
- rating: 10
[User has posted 1 recommendations about 1 pubs]
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Paul McScotty left this review about The Renfield Bar
Popped into the Renfield for a quick drink (mainly to get dry after a sudden bout of rain - well it is Springtime in Glasgow). I recalled this pub as being under new management around 2009 - 2010 (the folk that owned Ross')and it felt then that improvements were being made... sadly on this visit I found it very tatty and run down -it was also a bit smelly (folk taking in food from the carry outs nearby) the carpers were very threadbare (and looked dirty) lighting was dark, folk were blocking the enterance smoking and worse the drinks selection was not great (poor selection of vodka - no Smirnoff, Glens etc). The Renfield has and always will be a traditional drinking pub with a nice city centre location but on this visit its gone downhill since the previous owners left - not the worst pub of its type, but with a large selection of much better similar pubs in the area, I wont be back.
On 26th April 2014
- rating: 3
[User has posted 44 recommendations about 42 pubs]