The Bas Bar, Rochester

The Cecil Arms is primarily a sports pub with its three projector screens for showing Sky Sports and three dartboards and two pool tables in the extended room away from the bar area. There is also a fruit machine, quiz machine, golf machine and jukebox along the wall by the main entrance. This is an over 25s pub, but families are welcome which leads me to believe that the age limit is imposed to stop the young chaff of the area using the pub like a youth club. The bar is stocked with standard draught products and there are six hand pumps, but unfortunately five were unused leaving Black Sheep as the only ale option. I looked around the pub before ordering from the friendly barmaid and decided to stick to the Guinness as everyone was drinking that and lager. There is a ‘bar menu’ which lists some usual pub grub meals which seemed to be reasonably priced. Outside the front of the pub there is some parking along with some picnic tables, some of which are covered. There is probably a good atmosphere in here when the football is on, but if I found myself in the area again around kick-off time I would probably head to the Sportsman down the road.