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The Salt Cellar, Shipley
Saltaire
Postal town: Shipley
BD18 3JF
Served areas
Reviews of The Salt Cellar (Average Rating: 6½ of 10) see review guidelines
Will Larter left this review about The Salt Cellar
After the very busy Fanny's Alehouse just across the road, with maybe 40 or more people drinking cask beer, this was a bit of a come down. There are four hand pumps, but no one else that I could see in the pub was drinking it, apart from our small pub research team. We took our beers into the quieter room, which has the feel of a games room or sports bar, and compared temperatures. Mine was coldest, possibly as low as six degrees, with others varying but not one was in the range we expect for well kept cask beers. This tells me that there had been quite a bit of time gone by since any of these had been poured, before we arrived. We had found the SALT place at the junction busy, with cask beers flying out, and we were to find the same at the Beehive along the road into Shipley. So three out of four real ale pubs in a half mile stretch were busy, this one was not.
On 4th July 2024
- rating: 4
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Old Boots left this review about The Salt Cellar
An excellent job of breathing new life into a tired old pub. Sadly the wonderful but formidable landlady wasn’t working on my visit but her influence was apparent. A high quality, friendly pub with decent beer, six pulls of mostly local beers. Two bars, public and lounge although nowt to choose between them, both are nice.
On 6th December 2021
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Aqualung . left this review about The Salt Cellar
This is something of a contrast from Fanny's as it is an original two bar pub with a very well maintained and comfy interior. The public bar has become a gin bar and looked empty on my Friday afternoon visit. The Lounge bar was fairly busy, well lit with comfy furnishings. There was a table of shrieking harridans near where I sat and I felt sorry for the solitary young male in the group who clearly wasn't equipped with ear plugs. I was told later that the group were all teachers, I just hope that none of their pupils were present!
The bar has six hand pumps which had Oscar's Werewolf Dark Mild, Bingley Salt Cellar (house beer), Blonde & Easy Peasy Tangerine plus Settle Ernie's Milk Stout and Blonde. I went for the Mild (£3.30 discounted) and the Milk Stout (£3.33 discounted) both of which were in good nick. I liked it here and would return but somehow the more shambolic Fanny's appealed more. It's GBG 2020 listed.
On 11th November 2019
- rating: 7
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Pub Details
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- Accommodation : No last updated 27 January 2019 by ROB Camra
- Bar Billiards : No last updated 27 January 2019 by ROB Camra
- Beer Festivals : No last updated 27 January 2019 by ROB Camra
- Beer Garden : Yes last updated 27 January 2019 by ROB Camra
- CAMRA Discount : Yes - 10% - last updated 27 January 2019 by ROB Camra
- Car Park : Yes last updated 27 January 2019 by ROB Camra
- Child Friendly : Yes - Until 7 p.m. - last updated 27 January 2019 by ROB Camra
- Darts : Yes last updated 04 July 2024 by Will Larter
- Dog Friendly : Yes last updated 27 January 2019 by ROB Camra
- Function Room : Yes last updated 27 January 2019 by ROB Camra
- Hot Food : No last updated 27 January 2019 by ROB Camra
- Live Music : Yes - See Facebook - last updated 04 July 2024 by Will Larter
- Live TV Sports : Yes last updated 27 January 2019 by ROB Camra
- Micropub : No last updated 27 January 2019 by ROB Camra
- Pinball : No last updated 27 January 2019 by ROB Camra
- Pool Table : Yes last updated 04 July 2024 by Will Larter
- Quiz Night : Yes - Thursday - last updated 27 January 2019 by ROB Camra
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 27 January 2019 by ROB Camra
- Real Cider : Yes last updated 23 May 2022 by aleand hearty
- Wheelchair Access : Yes - Entrance at rear - last updated 27 January 2019 by ROB Camra
- WiFi : Yes last updated 27 January 2019 by ROB Camra
