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The Test Match Hotel, Nottingham
West Bridgford
Postal town: Nottingham
NG2 5LP
Reviews of The Test Match Hotel (Average Rating: 7½ of 10) see review guidelines
Steve C left this review about The Test Match Hotel
The Test Match is an imposing pub at the end of the main street in the well-to-do area of Bridgford. There are fake grass areas with picnic tables either side of the revolving door front entrance that leads to a large and impressive high ceilinged lounge area. To the right is a dining room with a thick red curtain that can be pulled across to create a private area. On the rear wall a flight of stairs lead up to the advertised function rooms, but a red velvet rope deemed these out-of-bounds during a recent Wednesday afternoon visit. The décor is impressive art deco and there is a cricket theme throughout, including a huge wall painting of two cricketers from yesteryear. The main bar counter is found towards the rear where it faces some open plan seating where televisions, that are found throughout, air Sky Sports. Doors at the rear lead to the toilets and a second smaller bar that houses a dartboard and pool table, but this was empty and the bar was unmanned.
Premium and craft keg were available and the six hand pumps on the main bar were drawing the regular TT Landlord, GK IPA and Abbot Ale alongside Blue Monkey Brewery’s Infinity Plus 1, Abbeydale’s Moonshine and Dancing Duck Brewery’s Ay Up. The Greene King pub co food menu is in operation, the pub grub mains start at £11. The service was very polite and there was lots that I didn’t see during my short visit so I’ll pop back in for another look if I find myself in the area again.
On 10th August 2023
- rating: 7
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Alex Conway left this review about The Test Match Hotel
A very impresseive grand looking pub at the back end of central avenue. This is a Greene King pub but before you shudder with grief they have adopted a similar policy to that of the bell and trip to Jerusalem in town e.g nothing like most of their horrific attempts at pubs.
The inside in very impressive with large ceilings and grand wallpaper and paintings of cricket matches and tapestries. the bar is located in the right hand corner as you enter through a very nice self push rotating spiral door that looks to be an original feature. This pub was refurbished not long ago and i must say they have made a grand job of modernising it while keeping it in touch with its original appeal.
On the bar are eight hand pumps but they have cleverly realised that their beers suck so have dedicated five of them to guest beer (praise the lord). aside from their Greene king IPA (£2.90) Abbot and London glory there was Castle rock Screech owl, and harvest pale as well as Taylor's landlord, Abbeydale moonshine and another I failed to note.
being Bridgeford they do like to hike up the price of beer and looking at the price list Landlord was a very high £3.65! I would not have minded but the beer to my taste was very unusual for someone used to drinking a lot when at university in Yorkshire, the beer was not off but there were defiantly funny flavours that are not usually present which makes me suspect maybe a problem with the cleanliness and upkeep with the lines. They also sell a small range of outrageously expensive draught craft beer which on my visit were Punk IPA, guinness hop house lager and goose island.
The beer issues with my landlord were a great shame as this pub has so many fantastic qualities besides being empty on my visit but i suspect on evenings and weekends it fills up. I would be willing to give this place another try as the building is so striking and impressive. defiantly a destination pub but probably go on a weekend to get the best of the atmosphere and beer quality, some small improvements and this could be a real gem, who ever thought a Greene king pub could be that? 7.5
On 13th March 2020
- rating: 7
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Real Ale Ray left this review about The Test Match Hotel
An entry in Camra's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors. We visited here on a Sunday afternoon and this large Green King pub was very busy, but to my joy, the public bar around the back was empty and unstaffed. This gave me a great opportunity to view the impressive terrazzo floor, tiered counter and slate fireplace all from the Art Deco period. The main entrance was also my main reason for visiting this pub, one of three Art Deco pubs left in the country and one of two with an original revolving door.
Beerwise Eight handpumps, with a selection of eight cask ales. We went for the Blue Monkey Infinity and Abbeydale Moonshine, prices here were high.
We found the easiest way to get here was get the No. 6 bus from central Nottingham, which drops you right outside.
On 12th July 2016
- rating: 8
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- Accommodation : No last updated 08 August 2019 by ROB Camra
- Beer Festivals : No last updated 08 August 2019 by ROB Camra
- Beer Garden : Yes last updated 08 August 2019 by ROB Camra
- CAMRA Discount : Yes - 10% - last updated 08 August 2019 by ROB Camra
- Car Park : Yes last updated 08 August 2019 by ROB Camra
- Child Friendly : Yes last updated 08 August 2019 by ROB Camra
- Darts : Yes last updated 08 August 2019 by ROB Camra
- Function Room : Yes last updated 08 August 2019 by ROB Camra
- Hot Food : Yes last updated 08 August 2019 by ROB Camra
- Live Music : Yes last updated 08 August 2019 by ROB Camra
- Live TV Sports : Yes last updated 08 August 2019 by ROB Camra
- Micropub : No last updated 08 August 2019 by ROB Camra
- Pool Table : Yes last updated 08 August 2019 by ROB Camra
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 08 August 2019 by ROB Camra
- Real Cider : No last updated 08 August 2019 by ROB Camra
- Wheelchair Access : Yes last updated 08 August 2019 by ROB Camra
- WiFi : Yes last updated 08 August 2019 by ROB Camra
