The Swan, Stafford

I wished I had taken a closer look at the details below before coming here as I too missed out on the other bar and the CAMRA discount. As noted below it's a modernised hotel bar with rooms for coffee and food on either side as you enter. After this the first bar is on the right having four hand pumps with one unused and the rest having Marston's beers. I went for the Oxford Gold which was well kept but unexciting. For the first pint of the day it went down well. It's GBG 2015 listed but isn't really my sort of place.

A large terraced bay-windowed Georgian styled hotel, restaurant and bar, with rear patio The interior is an interesting use of space if nothing else. To theft is a coffee-shop, to the right the bistro, laid out for food. The actual bar area is the old coach entrance and passage way to the stables at the back - even the internal windows are also bays. The bar is in two parts, a sofa area at one end, while the more standard tables and chairs are at the other. The serving bar is half way down on the right. The decor is a mix of white, cream, red, with white and beam ceiling and some undressed brick. There is some abstract art on the walls as well. The service was fine and the clientele mixed. They do food in the bar area as well, but i haven't eaten there as yet. Beer; tap stuff along with four handpulls - GK IPA, GK St Edmunds, Slaters Queen of Hearts and a hoppy Lymington Einstein were on at the last visit. Had a decent Spekky Hen the time before. This is a hotel and restaurant, but the bar area does have a decent selection and thus i feel warrents inclusion here. It may have improved it's selection since ETA last visited. I would happily pop in for a look on a crawl, it just isn't so homely as other places.