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The Town Crier, Coventry

Corporation Street
Coventry
CV1 1PB

Phone: 02476632317

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Local Pub (Marstons)

Served areas

Coventry Central

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Strongers . left this review about The Town Crier

The Town Crier is found in a long thin building where picnic tables run along the front veranda. The dark wood topped exposed brick serving counter by the entrance matches the décor throughout. Raised seating areas run along the front windows and high tables are found in the bar area. Standard seating is found in the left rear, all the tables throughout were a quarter full with an older crowd during my recent Monday afternoon visit when some 80s background music was playing. In amongst the keg I noted six hand pumps, one of which was unused and the Marston’s Old Empire was ‘coming soon’. This left the polite barman options to serve Tetleys, Pedigree, Phipps IPA and Shakespear Brewing’s Tempest. I’d pop back in if passing.

On 5^th October 2024 - rating: 6
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Old Boots left this review about The Town Crier

Down to earth community pub, a modern low rise building with a brick and wood interior. It’s a long thin sort of place with a series of raised seating areas down one side opposite the counter, opening out to a broader space, live music on when I dropped in. Large range of Marstons beers in ok condition and it’s in the GBG2018.

On 26^th April 2018 - no rating submitted
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Pub SignMan left this review about The Town Crier

This funny looking, fairly modern pub located near the end of the attractive Spon Street began life in the 1980's as a Banks' house and is therefore now part of the Marstons stable. Inside you find a very large, open plan room, carpeted throughout with an L shaped servery in the rear right corner. The bar has a dark wood counter and gantry and a nicely worked bar back with some decent detailing. Opposite there is a raised seating area, penned in by a series of railings with a shelf for holding your drink should you be on the lower level. The raised space offers some long U-shaped button backed banquettes and a few standard chairs and offers a good vantage point from which to watch the goings on elsewhere in the room. Similar seating arrangements can be found in the front left portion of the pub, which stretches a deceptively long way, affording plenty of seats for busier periods and on the end wall there is a fairly pleasant tiled fireplace which forms a bit of a focal point in an otherwise relatively featureless part of the room. To the rear left there are bare brick walls with more banquettes under a shelf stacked with beer bottles, whilst the walls around much of the pub have various old black and white photos of the local area on display. The rear centre area, to the left of the bar, had been set aside for a band to play on our Saturday evening visit and right on cue they came 'onstage' just as we were buying our pints. Thankfully, they were pretty good, churning out '70's hits (Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Bowie) to a well lubricated bunch of eager headbanging locals.
Just Marstons beers on the bar, but a decent line-up including a few rarer choices, with the full range comprising Marstons Pedigree and Saddle Tank plus Jennings Golden Host and Sneck Lifter. I tried the Saddle Tank which was crystal clear and tasted very fresh and as the evening wore on, we decided to stay and watch the rest of the band's set, at which point I switched to the Sneck Lifter which was also in great shape. The staff were working hard to serve a very large crowd and dealt with one lone drunk idiot very professionally.
This place seems incredibly popular, mainly with an older crowd including bikers and rock music loving pensioners, which helped create a fun atmosphere with a slight edge to it. The pub finds itself in the 2017 Good Beer Guide and judging by the beer we tried here, this is very well deserved, even if the constrained range of beers available won't be to everybody's taste. This was a good way to round out an evening crawling around the city centre's better pubs, but the generic open plan interior means it may be a bit of a damp squib at quieter times.

On 28^th April 2017 - rating: 6
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