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The Alexandra Hotel, Derby
Derby
DE1 2QE
Served areas
Alexandra Pub Derby
Cask today from @CRBrewery @brewyorkbeer @northridingbrew @TripPointBrew @NMBCo
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Reviews of The Alexandra Hotel (Average Rating: 8 of 10) see review guidelines
The Chairman left this review about The Alexandra Hotel
Excellent pub, great beer selection and wonderful railwayana. For an afternoon out with old friends it's the perfect venue with nothing to dislike, other than perhaps the roadworks outside!
On 23rd February 2024
- rating: 9
[User has posted 30 recommendations about 30 pubs]
Pub SignMan left this review about The Alexandra Hotel
Pleasant two bar pub close to Derby station. The entrance porch has a door to the left for the Public Bar and another to the right for the Lounge Bar. I tried the Lounge and found a part carpet, part bare boarded room with padded bench seating around the perimeter and a small servery next to the entrance. The bar has a nice dark wood counter with matching bar back and gantry, plus a bell to one side for attracting attention should the barman be in the other bar. The beer board has been hung from the front wall, which means it is very easily missed and keg beer was listed alongside the cask options, so it seemed very easy to make a mistake when ordering from it. There are some nice leaded windows to the front and in the porch area, whilst the room has been decorated with some excellent old brewery posters, mirrors, beer trays, beer mats and a very large, illuminated Home Ales sign. By far the most striking feature though, was a real, live rabbit complete with hutch and run, which occupied most of the rear part of the room - I know I was at the end of four very long days in the field, but I swear I wasn’t hallucinating and there was an actual rabbit running around the lounge. After that, the Public Bar could only disappoint, despite being slightly bigger and offering similar bench and low stool seating options. The room has been decorated with some great old railway memorabilia, which I didn’t have enough time to properly browse through.
The beer boards were a little tricky to navigate, but I think there were somewhere in the region of 8-10 cask ales, mainly from breweries such as Castle Rock, Nene Valley and Pentrich. I tried the Nene Valley Hop Stash (£4.00), which was in decent condition. The pub was very peaceful on my Monday afternoon visit, with just a small handful of other punters slowly coming and going, all seemingly unfazed by the whole rabbit thing.
This is a really good pub, probably overlooked a little due to its proximity to the classic Brunswick Inn, although these two do make one hell of a double header and a great introduction to Derby’s pub scene for anyone fresh off the train. I liked this one a lot and could’ve stayed much longer had I not needed to leave for my train.
On 11th September 2023
- rating: 8
[User has posted 3114 recommendations about 3114 pubs]
Steve C left this review about The Alexandra Hotel
The Alexandra Hotel has a large central bar counter that serves a right-hand lounge bar and left-hand public bar, both of which have seating along the front and up the side walls opposite the counter. The lounge bar was empty during a recent early Tuesday evening visit, and the public bar had a handful of hardy drinkers present. This is a train themed pub with lots of objects on the walls, including railway signs and an old seven segment platform clock, that actually works. The train theme carries on into the rear beer garden where there are lots more signs, as well as part of an old train motor. For a split second I thought the pub backed onto a railway platform.
There are lots of hand pumps on the bar that were drawing four Castle Rock ales, Thornbridge’s Bankers Cat Dinner Ale, Pentrich’s Sound Meets Sound, Salopian’s Slipstream and six real ciders. I went for Castle Rock’s Harvest Pale that was well served by the polite barmaid. I liked it in here, maybe I’ll enquire about the accommodation next time I’m up this way with work.
On 31st July 2023
- rating: 8
[User has posted 5228 recommendations about 5196 pubs]
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- Accommodation : Yes last updated 17 February 2017 by ROB Camra
- Bar Billiards : No last updated 17 February 2017 by ROB Camra
- Beer Festivals : No last updated 17 February 2017 by ROB Camra
- Beer Garden : Yes last updated 17 February 2017 by ROB Camra
- CAMRA Discount : Yes - 20p per pint, 10p per half - last updated 18 July 2019 by ROB Camra
- Car Park : Yes last updated 17 February 2017 by ROB Camra
- Child Friendly : Yes last updated 17 February 2017 by ROB Camra
- Darts : Yes last updated 17 February 2017 by ROB Camra
- Dog Friendly : Yes last updated 17 February 2017 by ROB Camra
- Function Room : Yes last updated 17 February 2017 by ROB Camra
- Hot Food : No last updated 17 February 2017 by ROB Camra
- Jukebox : No last updated 17 February 2017 by ROB Camra
- Karaoke : No last updated 17 February 2017 by ROB Camra
- Live Music : No last updated 17 February 2017 by ROB Camra
- Live TV Sports : No last updated 17 February 2017 by ROB Camra
- Micropub : No last updated 17 February 2017 by ROB Camra
- Pinball : No last updated 17 February 2017 by ROB Camra
- Pool Table : No last updated 17 February 2017 by ROB Camra
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 17 February 2017 by ROB Camra
- Real Cider : Yes last updated 17 February 2017 by ROB Camra
- Wheelchair Access : Yes last updated 17 February 2017 by ROB Camra
- WiFi : Yes last updated 17 February 2017 by ROB Camra
