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Disappointment of the week with Real Ale Ray
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Coach & Horses, Norwich
Norwich
NR2 1NR
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Steve C left this review about Coach & Horses
The Coach & Horses has a bar counter that faces the entrance and the high tables to its left. More seating runs up the left-hand side, including some curved U-shaped booths, towards the rear where there is a raised seating area that was being used by diners. In fact there were quite a few people eating during my Thursday evening visit. To the right of the entrance is a sunken seating area with a bar billiards table. I counted eight hand pumps on the bar which were drawing Nethergate’s Old Growler, Panther Brewery’s Red Best, Woodforde’s Phoenix IPA, Wolf Brewery’s Lupus Lupus and Caledonian Brewery’s Deuchars. Premium keg was also available alongside Beavertown’s Neck Oil. The service was polite and I thought this was a nice enough pub, but I’m not a huge fan of people eating around me while I’m have a drink late in the evening. That said, I would pop back in if passing.
On 23rd April 2023
- rating: 7
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Bucking Fastard left this review about Coach & Horses
A good looking exterior,this pub is not far from the Market and shopping area.You enter into an interior with several sections,to the left what feels more of a dining area,at the back a higher level lounge with some very good curved two seater mini booths,while opposite the bar are high tables before a further large lower level seating area past a pub office alcove .
The service was exemplary with ale advice and tasters given and the sausage rolls were unusual,well described and very tasty.Ale options on my trip were Nethergate Old Growler,Woodforde Phoenix IPA,Duechars IPA,Greene King IPA,Moongazer White Face and Humpty Dumpty Easter Egg (a speciality brew but very good,NBSS 4).There was also a real cider.
Good to see a pub trying very hard,worth including on a crawl but perhaps not enough interesting ale to stand out as unmissable.
On 16th April 2023
- rating: 7
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Quinno _ left this review about Coach & Horses
A random barrel this one. Clearly quite an aged building and the inside, whilst clearly modernised, has plenty of charm and is well looked-after. A long frontage so you’d assume the same inside however it’s a funny shape, two front rooms with low beams, low lighting and a very lovely side rear snug in a modern take on a gin palace style. There was also a recently refurbished bar billiards table which my companion and I took full advantage of. So a lot of positives. The negatives - terrible piped music consisting mainly of awful covers, like some of the more comedic eastern European places I’ve been to. Cask-wise there were three on; Humpty Dumpty Lemon & Ginger (NBSS 3, just), Wolf Blackcurrant Mild (awful, taken back and off, 1), GK OSH and Norfolk Raider Cider. Curates egg, but there’s enough here to get it on your crawl list I’d say.
Visited early August.
On 12th September 2021
- rating: 7
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about The Coach & Horses
Entrance to this Greene King pub is currently down a side passage. You exit through the front door. 5 ales were on - Coach Ale (presumably Greene King), Wolf Letsbe Avenue, Lacon's Hop Mount, St Peter's Plum Porter & Panther Beast of the East. There was also a real cider that I'd not seen before - Harleston Ciderlite.
Not a bad pub at all.
On 18th September 2020
- rating: 7
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Real Ale Ray left this review about The Coach & Horses
This is still a Greene King House. The pub consisted of two levels and lots of comfortable settling areas. There was some interesting built in high back bench seating to the rear of the pub along the left hand wall. Pictures of musicals decorated the walls as we were near Norwich Theatre. The walls and ceilings were washed with a burnt sienna glaze, which was in keeping with the age of the building. On handpump GK IPA, Morland Old Speckled Hen and Holdens Temple of Love as it was Valentines week.
On 17th February 2013
- rating: 7
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Alan Winfield left this review about The Coach & Horses
The Coach and Horses is a Greene King tied house.
The pub looks a bit dowdy inside and was very quiet mid Saturday afternoon,when you go in this pub there are steps down to the other areas for a drink.
On 9th October 2010
- rating: 6
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