Norden Farm Bar, Altwood, Maidenhead

Norden Farm is on Google "view inside". The high beamed rustic roof in the restaurant can be viewed, leading to the curved bar showing the Rebellion handpumps. Further passageways take you to a small studio and a view of the theatre.

A cafe bar for the modern theatre and gallery complex. It’s a curved single bar room. A mish-mash of rustic and modern interior fittings. There’s no ceiling, so the roof support beams are fully visible. The more modern touches are the steel bar top and the plate glass windows that allow in a lot of light. As to be expected, it’s a family-friendly place that on our Saturday visit was operating almost like a social club/crèche for the local mum and buggy brigade. One ale on - Rebellion IPA - over two pumps which amusingly were both used to fill my glass. Less amusing was the grubby vessel and the state of the beer, which was poor. Should I revisit I’d have the keg Lovibonds instead. It serves a purpose and it’s useful to know it exists, but it isn’t somewhere I’d feel the need to ever do again unless I happened to be going to a play there.