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Bell Inn, Nottingham
Nottingham
NG1 6HL

Reviews of Bell Inn (Average Rating: 7 of 10) see review guidelines
Will Larter left this review about Bell Inn
It feels like a long time since I was here. Just a quick visit, so I popped in the Elizabethan Bar on the right of the passage that leads towards the much larger room at the back. Two GK beers on, Abbot and IPA. (Two other pump clip shaped roundels say "what is Greene King IPA" to the left and ""what is cask ale" to the right.) My half of Abbot was pretty good (NBSS 3.5, £5.20/pint), so this was a good start to my half-day in Nottingham. The room, or two rooms really, look as though there's not much Elizabethan about them, though I'd be happy to be proved wrong, but it's a pleasant enough space. I wouldn't mind calling back again some time, especially if the beer is always this good, but I know that Greene King can be like a red rag to a bull as far as some drinkers are concerned.
On 7th June 2025
- rating: 7
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Ian Mapp left this review about Bell Inn
Great traditional pub that is in the good beer guide 2021. Dont arrange to meet your mates here, as you will never find them. A bar to the left and right but for the full range of beers, you need to go to the large room at the back - which is festooned with booths and TV screens. The front bars are far more pleasant.
Abbbeydale Absolution in good condition.
Top pub, if you are in town.
On 23rd October 2021
- rating: 8
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ROB Camra left this review about Bell Inn
We were refused entry to this pub on Sunday evening, in my case for the first time since I was 17
This was because we didn't have a smartphone. I pointed out to them that this is discrimination. We offered to supply the required details manually like almost all other Nottingham pubs seemed to be doing, but they said they didn't have paper or a pen.
Arseholes. The score of shame is inevitable.
Been in many times before, but it seems unlikely that we'll be going again, ever!
On 25th August 2020
- rating: 1
[User has posted 3295 recommendations about 3205 pubs]
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Netherfield, 3.84 miles, 1 hr 14 min walk (show)
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Pub Details
Pub details supplied by members of this site to the best of their knowledge. Please check with pub directly before making a special trip.
- Accommodation : No last updated 22 November 2016 by ROB Camra
- Bar Billiards : No last updated 22 November 2016 by ROB Camra
- Beer Festivals : No last updated 22 November 2016 by ROB Camra
- Beer Garden : Yes - Seats at front - last updated 22 November 2016 by ROB Camra
- CAMRA Discount : Yes - 25p per pint - last updated 22 November 2016 by ROB Camra
- Car Park : No last updated 22 November 2016 by ROB Camra
- Child Friendly : Yes last updated 22 November 2016 by ROB Camra
- Darts : No last updated 22 November 2016 by ROB Camra
- Dog Friendly : Yes last updated 22 November 2016 by ROB Camra
- Function Room : Yes last updated 22 November 2016 by ROB Camra
- Hot Food : Yes last updated 22 November 2016 by ROB Camra
- Live Music : Yes last updated 22 November 2016 by ROB Camra
- Live TV Sports : Yes last updated 22 November 2016 by ROB Camra
- Micropub : No last updated 22 November 2016 by ROB Camra
- Pinball : No last updated 22 November 2016 by ROB Camra
- Pool Table : No last updated 22 November 2016 by ROB Camra
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 22 November 2016 by ROB Camra
- Real Cider : Yes last updated 22 November 2016 by ROB Camra
- Wheelchair Access : Yes last updated 22 November 2016 by ROB Camra
- WiFi : Yes last updated 22 November 2016 by ROB Camra