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Rutland Arms, Sheffield
Sheffield
S1 2BS
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Pub SignMan left this review about Rutland Arms
This rather grand looking pub, with it’s eye-catching ‘Duncan Gilmore & Co Limited’ branding, is actually a fairly compact affair which manages to retain a traditional feel whilst still seemingly appealing to the hip student types who made up the majority of the Saturday evening custom on my recent visit. You enter through a lovely stained glass porch into a room with the bar to the left and a carpeted seating area on the right hand side. The glasswork throughout the room is a highlight, with the aforementioned porch standing out alongside frosted front windows and some more stained glass panes on the rear wall. The servery is tucked away efficiently in the rear left corner and is lined with various boards listing food and drink options and the usual pump clip collection associated with pubs that offer a good choice of ales. Tiled fireplaces can be found at either end of the room, both adding a degree of charm to their respective areas and no doubt much welcome warmth in colder months. A few banquette booths separated by smart partitioning screens can be found along the front wall, with standard seating options elsewhere. An interesting collection of beer bottles and cans run along a high shelf, which is worth a quick browse. Elsewhere, decoration includes plenty of nice old pictures of pubs from yesteryear.
This place has a pretty good reputation for good beer and the ale range on this visit was very encouraging, comprising Blue Bee Bee’s Knees Reet Pale and Bitter, Lincoln Green Five Gold Rings, Marstons Pedigree New World Pale, Brass Castle Burnout and Bob’s Brewing Goblin. Keg options were fairly eclectic and included beers from the likes of Freedom, Magic Rock and Brew by Numbers although I was put off from risking the keg range when I found out that a pint of Stone Smoked Porter cost £10! I instead sampled the Reet Pale, which was in great shape and a good beer to round off an excellent day’s pub crawling.
I’d never previously visited this pub due to its relative isolation from the majority of the city’s great pubs, but in hindsight it’s actually only a short walk from the city centre and less than five minutes walk from the train station, so I’m sure I will be adding this pub to future crawls around Sheffield.
On 6th February 2015
- rating: 8
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Real Ale Ray left this review about Rutland Arms
There were seven ales on offer on our Thursday eve visit. The pub was moderatly busy and had a relaxed and laidback sort of atmosphere to it. Music from the jukebox was playing on a low to medium volume. They also serve food. On the ale front, I went for the Brass Castle Cliffhanger and Welbeck Abbey Red Feather.
On 28th April 2013
- rating: 8
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Quinno _ left this review about Rutland Arms
Well after hearing all the rave reviews of the place under new ownership I popped in again on the way back to get my train after a session in the Valley of Beer. Sketchy though I was, I certainly noticed that the place was heaving (no spare tables!) and there were plenty of beers (8?) on – I plumped for a Henrietta from Welbeck Abbey which was in good nick and slipped down a treat. I also noted a few proper ciders too. Despite the muted lighting, I could make out that the interior has had some proper maintenance as well. An impressive transformation from 2009 and it gets my vote for an early pint next time I’m in the city.
August 2009
A wonderfully imposing Art Deco façade which is a sort of flat-ended V-shape with numerous old touches in the tiled decoration. However what should have been a characterful interior was let down by a lack of general maintenance which left a lot to be desired; numerous scuffs, drill holes in the wall and worn-out seat coverings which detracted from the positives like the large stained glass 'Rutland' sign to the right of the main bar. The toilets smelt quite bad too. Three ales were available (TT Landlord, Deuchars IPA and Black Sheep), my IPA was OK, no great shakes. There's plenty of potential here but it looks like it's been purposefully run-down in order to close it. Shameful. Rating 4.
On 30th August 2012
- rating: 7
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Gill Smith left this review about Rutland Arms
First time we have been to this pub that features in the 2012 Good Beer Guide, and found it a comfy pub to be in around 6pm on Friday night, quite busy with conversation buzzing. We were there for the ales and there was a good selection on the bar. Blue Bees Bees Knees Bitter, Blue Bees Nectar Pale, Blue Bees Lustin for Stout, Acorn Blonde, Wychwood Bah Humbug, Greene King Westgate Fireside,Marstons EPA, and Jennings Cumberland and those we tried were in good condition too.
On 14th January 2012
- rating: 8
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John Bonser left this review about Rutland Arms
Occupying a prominent street corner position in Sheffield’s Cultural Industries Quarter and close to Hallam University is The Rutland Arms, a pub that is still badged externally as a Tetleys pub, but which still retains evidence on its striking tiled exterior of its earlier days as a Duncan Gilmour & Co Limited house.
It’s a comfortable, carpeted, traditionally furnished interior which, through retaining etched windows inscribed as Smoke Room and Tap Room, tells us that it was formerly a two bar pub, with a bar either side of the main entrance.
The pleasant interior features framed cartoons for sale and a collection of photos of other Sheffield pubs – eg Kelham Island Tavern, Red Deer. There’s also a few old CAMRA branch certificates – one for Pub of the Month dates back to December 1990. Cans and bottles from various breweries are housed on a high shelf around the wall. There’s also some appealing coloured leaded glass and a Rutland Arms mirror bearing the inscription “Pour Y Parvenir”.
Despite its proximity to Hallam University, it doesn’t particularly feel like a student orientated pub, although the opportunity is offered to “get your band on our jukebox” if one feels so inclined.
There’s a rather scruffy outside walled beer garden where the main highlight is a striking mural painted on the outside brickwork.
On the real beer side, the pub advertises itself as “now featuring 7 local cask ales”. Beers on during my recent late afternoon visit included 2 beers from Barnsley’s Acorn Brewery and several beers from the Blue Monkey Brewery. Both the Acorn Sovereign - £ 2.83p – and a beer called 99 Red Baboons from the Blue Monkey Brewery were fine tasty pints. The pub has made it into the CAMRA 2011 Good Beer Guide.
This pub is conveniently close to Sheffield Railway Station and is worth a look in
On 5th April 2011
- rating: 8
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ROB Camra left this review about Rutland Arms
The pub has indeed been smartened up. Some great wood & stained glass in and around the bar area , now shown off well. Very unusual pictures on the walls of women posing in a toilet!! It may be an exhibition of some sort I suppose. The pub now has 8 handpumps with changing guests on most of them. There were also 4 real ciders/perrys behind the bar. I had a pint of Seven Hills from Sheffield Brew Company which was good, Ms CAMRA also thought that her half of the same was well kept. They now have food available 12 - 9, the menu looked pretty good but we didn't try any. We hadn't visited before the spruce up, but it's a decent pub now. It's also GBG 2011 listed.
On 5th November 2010
- rating: 7
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