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Dog & Partridge, Sheffield
Sheffield
S1 4EL
Pub Type
Punch TavernsReviews (Current Rating Average: 7 of 10) see review guidelines
Old Boots left this review about Dog & Partridge
A multi space genuine Irish pub, the counter is towards the left middle of the building, four pulls including a new iteration of Stones brewed locally by True North. Calling in on a Saturday afternoon it was rammed and music was being played. A few Irish songs, lots of Irish flags as decor and lots of Guinness bring drunk. The screen in the back room was showing rugby, horse racing was on on the front screen. It had fewer Irish customers than Fagans down the road but it’s still unmistakably Irish.
On 17th March 2024
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Graham Coombs left this review about Dog & Partridge
A proper locals' pub, multi-roomed and nicely aged, with a bit of an Irish flavour. There is a front room, with a dartboard, a side room with a fireplace, a back room with a TV screen and a nice little snug behind the central bar. There were three good cask ales on handpump - Stancill Barnsley Bitter, Chantry Full Moon and Doctor Morton's Proper Gander, with a Lilley's fruit cider - plus a nice selection of bottled Belgian and other beers. I quite liked it here - shame it's a late opener.
On 16th August 2023
- rating: 8
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about Dog & Partridge
Partly opened-out layout in the plain bar area, but the side room to the left of the entrance and the rear lounge area are more appealing. Four real ales offered on handpump, with the regular Stancil Barnsley Bitter, Landlord, Chinook 'low carbon' from Grizzly Grains (£3.50) and Plump Penguin plum porter from Little Critters on this visit.
On 13th March 2023
- rating: 7
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Moby Duck left this review about Dog & Partridge
A fairly basic looking traditional pub, It was close to closing time so I didn't linger here long but found it to be a comfortable albeit not a particularly thought provoking twenty minutes. My Pint of Bad Seed Light Cluster was showing the early signs of tiredness but perfectly drinkable. The pub was ok but nothing really to write home about.
On 14th September 2021
- rating: 6
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Will Larter left this review about Dog & Partridge
My resolve to come here more often in 2018 amounted to 14 visits that year, but they tailed off after the summer when the regular beer changed from Balck Sheep to Barnsley Bitter. It was still that way on my first visit this year, but on my latest time through the door there was a pleasant change: Blue Bee Hillfoot Bitter, a very well made and properly bitter beer brewed here in Sheffield. If it's the same next time, I'll be back to making this a regular haunt.
On 18th June 2019
- rating: 7
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Pub SignMan left this review about Dog & Partridge
I found this pub to be a slightly strange hybrid between a modernised pub and the sort of traditional boozer it clearly once started out as. You enter past a few small pavement tables, into a dark corridor with a fairly drab small seating area off to the left, with space for a few tables and chairs around a decent looking fireplace. Continuing along the corridor, you eventually emerge out into the bar area, with the servery to the rear left and some limited seating options opposite. The bar has a nice dark wood counter with copper trim and a white tile, pump clip lined bar back. The bar’s canopy and numerous dark wood beams throughout this room are also covered in pump clips and there is a large TV screen in the front corner, above a collection of board games. High tables and stools comprise the majority of the seating options, although there is a banquette underneath a stained glass window with a smart floral design. Elsewhere, there is a dartboard tucked away in another corner, next to a ‘Gilmour’s’ etched glass window and a door leads through to a rear room with more seating, mostly banquettes, a tiled fireplace with a ‘Gilmour’s’ mirror above and another TV screen. Music was playing fairly loudly and was almost entirely Irish themed (Molly Malone, The Commitments etc...), whilst the menu seemed to be based around soul-food classics, all of which made me feel this pub has a bit of an identity crisis.
On the bar there were found hand pumps offering Acorn Summer Pale, Magic Rock High Wire, Dead Parrot Kato Nwar and Stancill Barnsley Bitter. The Summer Pale was a reasonable £3.00 a pint and in reasonably good condition, although far from perfect.
I thought this pub had no idea what it wanted to be – is it a contemporary or traditional pub? Does a menu from the Deep South go with a soundtrack from Ireland? Is the beer actually any good or not? Who can be sure? There were certainly elements that I liked, but in trying to cover many bases, I felt that it didn’t really do any of them any justice and I was considerably less comfortable here than I was in the Grapes next door as a result.
On 2nd January 2019
- rating: 6
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Will Larter left this review about Dog & Partridge
One of my new year's resolutions - in fact, probably the only one - is to go to the Dog & Partridge more often, after having several perfect pints of Black Sheep Best Bitter here last year. I know, it's not everyone's cup of tea, but to my taste buds it's a pretty good substitute for the long lost Leeds Tetleys; when well kept, as it always is here. Black Sheep is a well balanced session bitter with a lingering, dry, bitter aftertaste and that well-known hop flavour that people with strange beards deride as "twiggy". Well, I love twigs - bring them on! And I'll be coming here more often in 2018.
On 17th January 2018
- rating: 9
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Bucking Fastard left this review about Dog & Partridge
A very impressive pub,on entry their is a front lounge to your left,a corridor with original glazed tiling,a tap room,a rear room with it's own bar access and a charming side snug with a serving hatch.The snug is worthy of close inspection with wood embellished with carvings by cutlers,bell pushes,Victorian fireplace yet a discreet flatscreen.Muzak was playing at a sensible volume and the welcome from the barman was genuinely friendly ,proud of his pub and committed to serve decent real ale.There are 6 handpumps,with four working on our Monday lunchtime visit serving Stancill Porter,Kelham Island Easy Rider,Black Wolf Lomond Gold and an excellent Blue Bee Hyphen,my pint of the crawl.
This pub should not be missed on any crawl around town,I plan to spend a lot longer in here on my next visit to the area.
On 18th July 2014
- rating: 9
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Real Ale Ray left this review about Dog & Partridge
A splendid looking pub, with nice features both inside and out. The front entrance hosts a stone threshold with the name Dog and Partridge inscribed. The short front lobby area also features some original glazed wall tiling. The small snug on the left hand side of the bar, also added great interest. Four ales on handpump, three of which were local. These were Kelham Island, Blue Bee and Stencill, the fourth ale was Black Wolf Brewery from Scotland. I went for the Blue Bee Hyphen, which was superb. A good pub this one and well worth a visit.
On 17th July 2014
- rating: 8
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Will Larter left this review about Dog & Partridge
We called in here somewhat randomly the other night on a "lesser known real ale pubs" crawl of the city centre. This one was included because of the poor experience related in my review below, and because we'd heard there was more of an emphasis on real ales here now. Having been impressed by the bank of six hand pumps, and the quality of the one beer that I drank on that occasion, I resolved to return and sample some more.
Beers available on my visit tonight were Black Sheep Bitter, Abbeydale White Knight, Brew Co Blonde Sensation, Kelham Island Easy Rider, Itchen Valley Tea Clipper and Dancing Duck Dark Drake. The last named was the beer that I had drunk last week, so I asked the landlord, perhaps a little cheekily, if it was the same barrel - he assured me he had put a new one on on Saturday, and the quality of the beer on this occasion supported his assertion. I also had the Tea Clipper, which has Earl Grey tea as a flavouring, and the Black Sheep, which was in superb condition.
I went in my favourite room here, the snug behind the bar, which is like stepping into another century. I'm not sure about the gold patterned wallpaper, but it doesn't clash too badly with the dark red plush bench seating, and the very old and very dark wood panelling is still in place, with its bell pushes and deeply incised initials and indeed the full names of former customers still in place. Elsewhere, the back room, in which I still half expect to see the JFK memorabilia now to be found in the Grapes just up the road, is a more anonymous room than formerly, but very comfortable. I was told that the present team has been here for 12 months, with their very welcome real ale emphasis, so they must have taken over not long after my previous poor experience - I will have to make up for lost time.
This one now bridges the gap very nicely between the Dove and Rainbow and the Red Deer, so making an almost straight line crawl heading for the University Arms, though a deviation to include the Museum would be my recommendation. For visitors arriving by train, the tram to Castle Square will start the crawl very conveniently, with a return from the University tram stop getting you back to your starting point.
On 10th February 2014
- rating: 8
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