The Dragon, Nottingham

Town centre pub with a standard range of ales including Citra, Adnams Broadside, Harvest Pale and Titanic Plum Porter. The Pale was ok. it might not be the most exciting choice of beers but at least it is a choice! I would call again.

After climbing a few steps you come to a long, thin pub on 2 levels. Its a bit of a miserable place and has an outside bit at the rear. There are now 6 handpumps on the bar but a rather dull selection of nationals on was a disappointment. Much better places around.

Lively city center pub on Angel road. One large long thin pub in two levels with a seating area on entrance and the bar on the right hand side at the back end of the bar to the right after climbing a few steps. this place gets busier at night time and has a regular vinyl DJ playing some good music. this give the pub a very chilled evening type atmosphere that is good for letting you hair down on a Saturday night. On the bar are Four hand pumps which until recently rarely changed but in recent times have started to offer a better more diverse selection of beers. Harvest pale and Broadside usually feature but Oakham citra, Titanic Plumb porter and Shipstones Bitter have all appeared over the last few weeks when I have been in. Its not cheap but my Shipstons was a nice well kept pint at £3.60. This place was in the good beer guide a few years ago but the competition in Nottingham is too fierce to warrant a place now but it does show that the quality is good here and the beers have always been well kept. This is a good place for late evenings when you still want good beer in a pub type place with a bit more evening atmosphere, worth a try.

I pop in here quite a lot as it is opposite my bus stop home from Nottingham. Always full with drinkers, I have never had a bad pint here, although the selection is pretty mainstream. The toilets are always clean, a good thing if you have a 30 minute bus ride in front of you. Some nights there is a guy spinning vinyl and taking requests. Good to hear some Scar, Two Tone, Northern Soul, punk and Motown in a way that it was intended. the volume is acceptable, you can still have a conversation over a pint of Adnams, Castle Rock or Shipstones in bottles. True, there are much better pubs in Nottingham, but non so close to the 36 bus stop. If you go in, check out the window frame to the outside world, it is made from stone and has a sepia hue. In one small spot, someone has cleaned it to it's original colour and it should be white! Surprisingly, this tiny pub has a beer garden out the back, primarily for smokers, but if you catch it on a night that is not too occupied, it's really good to sit in.