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The Dragon, Nottingham
Nottingham
NG1 6JE
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Delboy 20 left this review about The Dragon
Town centre pub with a standard range of ales including Citra, Adnams Broadside, Harvest Pale and Titanic Plum Porter. The Pale was ok. it might not be the most exciting choice of beers but at least it is a choice! I would call again.
On 25th March 2019
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Al Bundy left this review about The Dragon
After climbing a few steps you come to a long, thin pub on 2 levels. Its a bit of a miserable place and has an outside bit at the rear. There are now 6 handpumps on the bar but a rather dull selection of nationals on was a disappointment. Much better places around.
On 28th April 2017
- rating: 5
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Alex Conway left this review about The Dragon
Lively city center pub on Angel road. One large long thin pub in two levels with a seating area on entrance and the bar on the right hand side at the back end of the bar to the right after climbing a few steps. this place gets busier at night time and has a regular vinyl DJ playing some good music. this give the pub a very chilled evening type atmosphere that is good for letting you hair down on a Saturday night. On the bar are Four hand pumps which until recently rarely changed but in recent times have started to offer a better more diverse selection of beers. Harvest pale and Broadside usually feature but Oakham citra, Titanic Plumb porter and Shipstones Bitter have all appeared over the last few weeks when I have been in. Its not cheap but my Shipstons was a nice well kept pint at £3.60.
This place was in the good beer guide a few years ago but the competition in Nottingham is too fierce to warrant a place now but it does show that the quality is good here and the beers have always been well kept. This is a good place for late evenings when you still want good beer in a pub type place with a bit more evening atmosphere, worth a try.
On 2nd October 2016
- rating: 7
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Peter Rydings left this review about The Dragon
Expected more from the outside go through the door a few yards then a few steps bar on the right it was early doors nothing done still trying to clean looks like staff hours cut and the Lad was trying to clean and serve people at the same time. Asked if any hand pump had been sold today there was a few heads on the bar he said we dont give it f-----g away told the wifeto leave her coke and walked out
On 3rd July 2014
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Mark Davey left this review about The Dragon
I pop in here quite a lot as it is opposite my bus stop home from Nottingham. Always full with drinkers, I have never had a bad pint here, although the selection is pretty mainstream. The toilets are always clean, a good thing if you have a 30 minute bus ride in front of you. Some nights there is a guy spinning vinyl and taking requests. Good to hear some Scar, Two Tone, Northern Soul, punk and Motown in a way that it was intended. the volume is acceptable, you can still have a conversation over a pint of Adnams, Castle Rock or Shipstones in bottles. True, there are much better pubs in Nottingham, but non so close to the 36 bus stop. If you go in, check out the window frame to the outside world, it is made from stone and has a sepia hue. In one small spot, someone has cleaned it to it's original colour and it should be white! Surprisingly, this tiny pub has a beer garden out the back, primarily for smokers, but if you catch it on a night that is not too occupied, it's really good to sit in.
On 12th May 2014
- rating: 7
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Pub SignMan left this review about The Dragon
The Dragon’s small frontage suggests that this is going to be a tiny, cramped city centre pub, but in fact, whilst it is admittedly very narrow, the room stretches back surprisingly far, with enough space to cope during peak times. You enter into the lowest level of the pub which is used as a seating area and has a mix of bench, standard and high stool options. There are a few steps up to the bar area and the room actually narrows here which made it a bit of a choke point at times during my visit. The servery is on the right and there are some banquettes opposite with a small collection of cacti on display behind them. The paint scheme is fairly plain, with the odd mirror breaking up the wall space and some nice lamps above the bar, but otherwise there’s not that much going on. A TV screen had been turned off and loud music was playing in its place on my late Tuesday evening visit. More steps beyond the bar take you up and out to the covered patio area which has a good amount of seating squeezed into a relatively small space.
The pub has made it into recent additions of the Good Beer Guide, despite having stiff competition elsewhere in the city and just the three hand pumps of its own. These were dispensing the seemingly permanent selection of Castle Rock Harvest Pale and Adnams Broadside and Southwold Bitter. I tried the Harvest Pale and had no complaints about the quality of the pint.
I think this pub lacks something to make it memorable, be it the beer range or the interior or the general ambiance. It’s a seemingly safe bet for a decent pint if you’re on a city centre crawl but frankly there are plenty of more interesting venues just a short walk from here.
On 3rd November 2012
- rating: 6
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Real Ale Ray left this review about The Dragon
Fabulous looking pub from the outside but once inside very boring. The interior is dark and badly lit, so nothing much to say really, just has no character. On handpump Adnams Broadside, Southwold Bitter and Castle Rock Harvest Pale. I'll give it a miss next time.
On 10th January 2012
- rating: 5
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Soup Dragon left this review about The Dragon
A terraced mock-Tudor styled town centre pub, with rear patio area. It has a brick upper, with plain and green stone lower frontage, with large mullion and transom window. It is in the GBG 2011.
The interior is a narrow room, which takes you up a few stairs to find the serving bar right at the far end on the right. The decor consists of different coloured walls; grey, dark red, dark green, along with wood panel and there is a wood floor. A brick fireplace feature sits in one corner, where the food condiments were kept. A few cacti and plants were dotted about. The seating was a mix of perimeter seating, which was a little ripped, and tables chairs. They do a general menu, which seemed fine – I just had a baguette if I remember, which was decent enough. There is a TV, which wasn’t on at my visit and the music was supplied by a Streets album – not my thing, but my mate was happy enough. The service was fine, just one guy serving, but then there was nobody else in the place as we hit it early doors.
Beer; usual tap stuff with Staropramen and Amstel, along with bottled beers. On handpull there was Castle Rock Harvest Pale Ale, Adnams Bitter and an OK Adnams Broadside.
This was a decent enough visit, and certainly a place I could pop back to – more for the one though I think.
On 14th September 2011
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ROB Camra left this review about The Dragon
Narrow but deep pub with a selection of seating areas. The benches at the top near the bar are made out of some strange plastic which is pretty awful to sit on or even touch. There's a raised beer yard at the rear. Adnams Bitter & Broadside plus Castle Rock Harvest Pale on the bar when we called in and the Adnams Bitter was very average. I must admit I don't really like the feel of this pub, but I don't know why. I also have no idea why it's in the GBG 2012, as on this showing it shouldn't be.
On 14th September 2011
- rating: 5
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Gill Smith left this review about The Dragon
Very quiet when we called into this 2011 Good Beer Guide pub. A few seats in the ebtrance area, then up a few steps to the main bar area which was a long narrow room. Good beer garden at the back. There were 3 beers on, Adnams Broadside and Adnams bitter, and the locAle beer was Castle Rock Harvest Pale. Not far from the main Market Square area of town.
On 13th October 2010
- rating: 7
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