The Castle Inn, Bamburgh

Two bars and a separate restaurant in this village centre pub, there are three in the village but this one is in the GBG 2024. The front door leads left to the bar and right to a lounge, they have a single servery with two counters but the rooms link at the rear. There are no taps or pulls in the lounge. Beyond the bar is a fairly big restaurant in an extension. Two pulls and two quad T-bars provide the beer choice, one cask on from Scottish brewery Born although house badged as Bamburgh Amber, kegs from Molson Coors plus Guinness. Beer quality good to middling. Decor is a mix of new old pub and corporate pub but comfortable enough. There’s a screen on a music channel in the bar. The bar is a room of two halves with the front being elegant Georgian while the back is exposed brick and dodgy artex ceiling, nice reproduction art nouveau fire place though.