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The City Inn, Truro
Truro
TR1 3SP
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about The City Inn
A few weeks after attempting to visit the City Inn, I returned on Easter Monday. Given the board outside still saying it is closed on a Monday, I wasn't expecting it to be open. Despite bank holidays often being an exception to the rule, it was still definitely closed when was passed by.
As such, I made a point of trying again the following day. Passing by during the morning, there was sign of life, in the way of fairylights being on inside the premises.
We returned after breakfast in the city centre and found that the lights were off once again and the front door was still shut and locked. This was 12:30 and within the 12-2:30 opening times still displayed on a board outside.
A note on the front door has 3 mobile numbers to contact the pub in an "emergency". I had tried calling the landline associated with the pub in advance and only got some kind of unobtainable tone. I did contemplate whether me trying to visit as many pubs in the country and continually finding this one closed was an emergency, but concluded that it didn't quite fit the description.
I'm fairly sure that this pub was open as recently as February, but it does now appear to have closed down. I will give it another go whenever I am next in Truro, but that won't be for a while and I certainly won't be making any more special journeys.
Original Visit 16/3/23:
This remains just about the only Truro pub I'd like to visit, but have still been thwarted in my attempts to visit.
Arriving here at 2:30 on a Thursday afternoon, I was expecting to find it open. However, it's extremely difficult to find any opening times for this place. Their website seems more interested in selling you accommodation. Although, by the look at it from the outside, I'm not sure why anybody would bother. Google also lists it as more of a hotel and doesn't display any opening times. Their Facebook page is also completely unhelpful. So, I assumed that Whatpub's listing of all day opening was correct.
Needless to say, a board outside the pub proudly proclaimed that the pub was only open until 2:30pm each day (3pm on a Sunday) and doesn't re-open until 5:30pm. Had I known, I would have visited earlier in the day when I passed through. After much deliberation, I decided not to stick around for 3 hours waiting for it to open.
Why on earth do pubs not display their opening times, especially during difficult economic conditions. If they use social media and have their own website, its a sunk cost. Makes no sense to me, but who am I to question.
I will return here at some point. But for now, it's a 1/10 from me.
On 12th April 2023
- rating: 1
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Gill Smith left this review about The City Inn
Enjoyed my visit to this Good Beer Guide pub last weekend while a beer festival was being held. There was a good selection of well kept beers on stillage in a building in the back garden area. We enjoyed beers from Brains, Tintagel, Triple FFF, Otter, Penpont and Kelham Island.
On 3rd June 2013
- rating: 7
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Soup Dragon left this review about The City Inn
A detached Georgian styled corner pub and eatery that also does accommodation. It is GBG listed and has a nice patio area at the rear. The pub is in cream render with green painted ashlar endstones and around the sash windows, that alaso have moulded lintels. There is an oriel window above the entrance.
The interior is more than a U-shape around the wooden central bar - in fact it is nearly a central island serving bar and a stone fireplace narrows the main bar room, showing that likely they were once two rooms - there is also a side area where there is a pool table and dart board. To the right on entry, where it opens out, is the more foody area, with tables and chairs. I didn't eat here so can't comment on that. The decor is stone, white and wood panel walls, with a red and beam ceiling and a fairly worn carpet and there are several small fireplaces. There is a massive jug collection that hangs from the ceiling and lots of other fun ephemera too. There is a TV, but this wasn't on at my visit and the background music was general (and my taste!) and at a decent level. The service was friendly as were the several locals in, who chatted merrily to a stranger.
Beer; usual tap stuff with Sharpe's Doombar, Otter Bitter and Skinner's Betty Stoggs on handpull - all were very good.
An excellent traditional pub, with the pub games and ephemera to match - friendly and good beer - i would definitely visit again.
On 2nd December 2011
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Gill Smith left this review about The City Inn
Called in this pub as it features in the 2010 Good Beer Guide. It is a short walk from the main shopping area, and has a local feel to it. Beer from local breweries, and we enjoyed the Skinners Cornish Knocker and Sharps Doom Bar in the very pleasant sun trap of a garden at the back of the pub.
On 19th July 2010
- rating: 8
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Philip Carter left this review about The City Inn
I think this is the right photo, it was taken in 2007.
On 18th January 2010
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Quinno _ left this review about The City Inn
Stopped off in Truro on the way back from the Eden Project (AKA Kew Gardens Writ Large) to give the two GBG pubs a try. This was my second of the two after the Wetherspoons (had to work my way up for the hill ascent) and I have to say this place really was a crushing disappointment.
The pub is split into two areas, a nice area set out with ostentatious dining tables and all I can describe as a dark, grotty area for the drinkers away from a small bar area where all the locals were crushed into. The gents were also pretty rancid, what are those brown streaks running down the wall by the sink about?
There were three ales on - Sharps, Courage Best and Skinners Betty Stoggs. I opted for the Betty Stoggs and got a pretty insipid beer for my trouble. Perhaps I should have tried another of the beers to see if was just unlucky given the dislike of the place itself I didn't feel any desire to stay on so left.
GBG or not, I'd struggle to summon up any recommendation really.
On 13th March 2009
- rating: 4
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