The Royal Arms, Nuneaton

Official site of The Royal Arms - www.royalarms.co.uk

Official site of The Royal Arms - www.royalarms.co.uk

This is a detached hotel, restaurant and pub, with beer garden. It was called the Greyhound Inn from at least the Victorian period, up until quite recently, i believe. The pub is mainly in undressed brick, with a moulded string course, but occupies multiple buildings and has a coach entrance. The interior has a two-roomed pub area, served by a central island serving bar. Off from this, passing a few sofas by a fish tank, is the modern styled restaurant, but fortunately, i am interested in the pub side. I was in the back area, which is in white and wood, with some brick - including the fireplace. There is a white and fakey beam ceiling. Books, mirrors, old photos and old metal plate adverts supply interest. This area also accommodates diners. The front room, i think, was in the same decor - but had a large fireplace feature, a suit of armour and a collection of minature bicycles!There was no tv that i saw and the music was soft and mixed. The service was fine and the clientele consisted of a mixed group, although fairly quiet. Beer; usual tap stuff, with three handpulls that had; Theakston's XB, Church End What the Fox's Hat and a decent Merry Miner's Cap Lamp. I enjoyed my stop-off here, it has a clear destinction between pub and restaurant, with the pub element being somewhere both traditionalists and modernists should generally be OK with.