The Prince Albert, Ely

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Located in something of a residential side street, but nonetheless only a few minutes stroll from the town centre and even closer to the cathedral, this is a pub of two halves with a classic no frills boozer feel at the front, but beyond that quite a contemporary area used as a restaurant with some more adventurous and expensive dishes available compared to your usual “pub grub”, although these made an appearance too.

The front bar is quite traditional as mentioned, and not especially large. Blue patterned carpet was on the floor and plain plasterwork on the walls, cream in one half and slightly more brown on the other. Red button back bench seating was fitted around much of the perimeter, with regular chairs elsewhere. A couple of old black and white photos of the locale were on the walls, but little else of any note. Beyond this was something of an anteroom with black and white chequered tiling on the floor, and on past this again the restaurant. This had fresh whitewashed walls along with feature wallpaper down one side, rustic tables and pale green paint on the woodwork. Beyond this again was a good sized patio area and beer garden.

The menu offered a decent choice of dishes, including pub favourites such as fish & chips, sausage & mash or beef burger as well as options such as sea bass fillet and a number of steaks. I went for the fish & chips, which at just a few pence short of £20 was certainly not cheap, but it was a generous portion and very tasty.

Beers on tap were Tiny Rebel Cwtch, Rocket Ales Black Knight Mild, Black Sheep, Timothy Taylor Landlord, Tribute and a trio from Greene King with their Hopping Special, Abbott Ale and IPA whilst yet another pump appeared to have run out. Ciders meanwhile were Old Rosie and Rosie’s Pig. Overall, well worth taking a slight detour to check this out.

On 24^th May 2024 - rating: 7
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