The Grosvenor, Carrington, Nottingham

Official site of The Grosvenor - www.grosvenor-pub.co.uk

Official site of The Grosvenor - www.grosvenor-pub.co.uk

This is a John Barras/Spirit pub, which has of course been bought out by Greene King. There were a few ales on, including GK IPA, GK London Glory, Spitfire, Bombardier Gold, and something called Grosvenor Golden (not sure who brews the Grovenor Golden, but possibly GK). Food is available all day, with the usual pubco pub grub menu available. Like other pubs of this branding, this one's been modernised to death, with the typical part flagstoned floor; distressed looking rough bare boards masquerading as flooring; artificially distressed furniture; too many tall tables and tall stools, white tiling behind the servery; fruit and games machines around the places; as well as TVs of course. The colour scheme's dull colourless grey and white, but on the plus side there was a dart board being enthusiastically used when I was in. There was a fair bit of outside seating as well. This is a corporate chain pub. I very much doubt whether the influence of new owners Greene King will improve things. It was handily placed as we were staying in the hotel opposite, which was a mile or so out of town, but I certainly wouldn't make a special journey to this part of town just to visit this pub.

The Grosvenor is a large pub that is situated on the busy Mansfield road in the Carrington area of Nottingham. The pub was an Home Ales tied house when i did my first visits back in the early 80s. Once inside the pub has now been opened out into a large single room which has lots of different areas,the bar faces on entry and is almost an island bar with three sides and seating all around it,the room is carpeted and the seating is comfy bench type and normal tables and chairs plus a few tall ones,there is a raised area to the rear left and a small raised area to the front right which has a pool table and darts board. There are three banks of pumps of pumps on each bar face,all seemed to have the same choice of Pedigree,which was a decent drink,two other pumps has GK IPA and Abbot waiting to condition. There were a few TVs dotted about showing rubbish programmes,decent background music was playing. There is also an upstairs function room which also has a bar,not in use on my Wednesday afternoon visit. I quite liked this pub,one i could well settle in,the few other customers who were at the bar or walked past me all spoke to me,which is quite nice when my last visit here was well over 30 years ago. Pub first visited Early 1982 Recent visit 26/8/2015