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Town Wall Tavern, Coventry
Coventry
CV1 4AH
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 8 of 10) see review guidelines
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Will Larter left this review about Town Wall Tavern
I really enjoyed my visit to this pub, but I was kept so busy talking by the very friendly locals and staff that I hardly made any notes. I do remember that they were struggling to get Bass delivered, which was a common complaint in regular Bass houses in the first few months of this year, but the more recent visit by the reviewer below says it is now back on. I went for Rev James, which was one of the beers on the small bar in the snug, whose street door was locked when I was here, and this was in very good condition.
Date of visit: 12th May 2022
On 9th July 2022
- rating: 7
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about Town Wall Tavern
Friendly locals pub situated not far from the main commercial area of Coventry, but just far enough away to keep it peaceful.
There are 2 or 3 small rooms, with chatty locals and bar staff. The real ale range is kept fairly mainstream. Regular beers are Bass, Brain's The Rev James, Theakston Best & Old Peculier & Wye Valley HPA. The 2 guest beers were Fuller's London Pride & Frothblowers Cloudburst Porter. I had the latter, which was quite enjoyable.
On 4th July 2022
- rating: 6
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Ian Mapp left this review about Town Wall Tavern
My favourite of all the GBG pubs inside Coventry's ring road.
Packed bar, full of friendly locals with good banter. More room around the back. The highlight is the little donkey box room, with its own front door and bar serving area that is just about big enough for a.... donkey. Only way to get to the loo is through the front door.
Bass and Purity Ubu in tremendous condition. Perfect pub. 10/10
Visit blogged at http://bit.ly/2P0EwkX
On 1st October 2018
- rating: 10
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Old Boots left this review about Town Wall Tavern
Old fashioned multiroom pub with quarry tiled floors, although with stripped back walls. Three pulls in the little front snug with another five in the main public, there’s a bigger side/back room as well. Well balanced range of micro and macro in fair nick. The staff are a wee bit incompetent but they mean well and it's a nice place.
On 26th April 2018
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Pub SignMan left this review about Town Wall Tavern
Located in a part of town that has undergone (and is still undergoing) a great deal of redevelopment over the years, the Town Wall Tavern is an attractive two room back street pub and a great survivor to boot. Two separate entrances with etched glass panes denoting 'Bar' and 'Smoke Room' can still be found to the front of the pub. The Bar is in the left hand part of the building and forms a deceptively narrow room with the servery to the front right and seating on each side of the room to the rear. The servery has a very satisfying curved counter and matching canopy with a board on the bar back listing the various ale options. A nice tiled fireplace acts as a centrepiece of sorts for the room which has sturdy banquettes around the perimeter of the rear half along with quite a few comfy low stools. The right hand wall has been covered with a collage of sheet music for various well known hits from the 1960's which is a fairly unusual but surprisingly effective means of decoration, providing plenty of visual distraction along with a good collection of breweriana which fills the rest of the wall space. A door to the rear right leads through to the Smoke Room which has some rather nice carpet throughout and a good selection of bench seating arranged across a series of semi-partitioned nooks that afford you a good bit of privacy and help make this a cosy, peaceful spot for a quiet drink. The decor in here seemed a bit more homely, there was another nice fireplace on the end wall and a decent Saturday night crowd created a very pleasant ambience.
There was a good ale range on the bar, albeit mainly from established regional brewers. Options on this occasion were Adnams Southwold Bitter, Robinsons Magnum IPA, Theakston Vanilla Stout and Old Peculiar, Brains Rev James, Draught Bass and Caledonian Deuchars IPA. I tried the Vanilla Stout which was a bit too vanilla-forward for my liking and my Dad tried the Magnum IPA, with both turning out to be in excellent condition. The bar staff were very friendly, stopping to chat to us about their beer and Coventry Beer Festival which was taking place that evening.
This is a cracking little pub which had bags of character and two very well appointed and suitably different bars in which to situate yourself. I thought the beer here was top notch and the service up there with the best we encountered in the city. A top notch ale house and arguably the premier destination pub in the city centre nowadays.
On 27th April 2017
- rating: 8
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about Town Wall Tavern
Fine old-fashioned pub in an unpromising location between the modern Belgrade Theatre and a cleared building plot. Traditional furniture and decor in two bars, one tiny, the other just small, with a larger (relatively speaking) opened-out lounge to one side. Good selection of real ale, extending from the regular Bass, Old Peculier, Adnams Bitter and Broadside Old Peculier and Deuchars IPA to the guest Robinson's Trooper and Moorhouse's Blonde Witch (£3.40).
On 21st November 2015
- rating: 8
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Real Ale Ray left this review about Town Wall Tavern
The donkey box where we decided to have our drinks, is accessible from its own separate door from the front of the pub. There is a photo of Rod Hull dressed in an Aladdin's costume and a donkey also in the same photo taken in this small snug, presumably arriving from the Belgrade Theatre next door. Perhaps this is why they nicknamed it the donkey box.
The manageress was friendly and helpful when asking about our planned pub route. The pub had three permanent ales which were, Adnams Southwold, Broadside and a Deuchars IPA. Their three guest were Robinsons Dizzy Blonde, Jennings Sneck Lifter and a Caledonian. Also the pub was built in 1850, other info is that they do lunch specials.
On 18th July 2014
- rating: 9
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Thuck Phat left this review about Town Wall Tavern
I haven't visited all of Coventry's town centre pubs but this is the one I'd head to first. I won't try and add to the accurate descriptions below other than to say that the bar is a convivial and comfortable place to sample an ale or two in front of the fire on a chilly night.
The welcome from the friendly barmaid was also warm and many of the clientele seemed to have either been working at or attending the Belgrade Theatre next door. There was no feeling of exclusion though and it was very easy to be swept into the general conversation.
Beers on were: Adnams Best and Broadside, Bass and Deuchars IPA as regulars and Green Jack Orange Wheat and Trawlerboys Best and Camerons Monkey Stout as guests. All that we tried was in good condition and went down well. The three guests were well chosen and I'd be tempted to swap one or two of the regular nationals for guests allowing a more interesting and electic selection. Local tastes may not allow but I'm sure that visitors would appreciate it and it would make the pub even more of a draw.
An excellent and characterful boozer.
On 13th November 2012
- rating: 8
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Bucking Fastard left this review about Town Wall Tavern
The excellent descriptions of the interior needs no addition from me.The tiled floor bar area with it's real fireplace and large iron radiator was a cosy place to settle down ,with much banter between the regulars and the barmaid enlivening the atmosphere.The Donkey Box snug is also a classic and it's bar counter sports two of the regulars ales from Adnams.The national real ale brands are supplemented by rotating microbrewery guests and my Orange Wheat Beer from Green Jack was in absolute top form.
On current form this would be my first choice among the city centre GBG listed pubs,and I would be tempted to make any visit a long one.An interesting interior only adds to it's obvious attraction.A true gem.
On 10th November 2012
- rating: 9
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Soup Dragon left this review about Town Wall Tavern
Despite, as Danny says, being surrounded by modern development, the pub and eatery is detached, in white render with black paint work and has a beer patio. In the GBG 2010. It has a front facing gable and three entrances, the bar to the left, the Donkey Box snug in the middle and the lounge to the right.
The interior is a nesting of rooms (including the famous Donkey Box). On this year's visit we stayed in the bar. It is in white, grey and some exposed brick walls, with a white ceiling and a red tile floor. There is a little fireplace in the corner and a TV, which wasn't on. A dart board sits on the wall, along-side an eclectic collection of mirrors, bottles, brasses, etc. The last time we visited we moved to the back in the diningy area bit, as we specifically wanted to eat in this pub (the food was fine, and was this year too). What seemed like an L-shape room, also in white and grey, this time carpeted and with a brick hearth feature, proved to be bigger with a couple more rooms in evidence. The place looks like it had been extended at the back, yet they couldn't be bothered to knock out the old back wall - as there are some great internal (and external) glass windows atched with Atkinson's Brewery. There is a lot of WWII memorablia in the internal internal room (if that makes sense) and it is also in white and grey, with a red chimney, white ceiling and a nice fireplace. The service was fine and the place was busy with a mixed crowd. There was no music.
Beer; tap stuff with Bass, Pedigree, Deuchars, Bateman's Rosy Nosey and Byatts Urban Red - which was very good.
I liked this pub and i am sure i will go back at some stage, well, i hope i do - WELL I HAVE - class.
On 11th January 2012
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