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The Butchers Arms, Cardiff
Canton
Postal town: Cardiff
CF11 9NG
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 6½ of 10) see review guidelines
Please Note: This review is over a year old.
Blue Scrumpy left this review about The Butchers Arms
With the excellent St Canna's Ale House just opposite, it's very easy to pass this corner Brains pub by. In fact, we did just that on our last visit to Cardiff in 2019. However, this was a visit to fill in some of the gaps, some of the pubs I hadn't previously visited in the capital.
The Butchers Arms is a completely different experience to St Canna's. It a really traditional backstreet boozer with its public bar on the corner, having just 2 other male customers and the landlord. We were immediately engaged in conversation as soon as we set foot in the door. Although our bedraggled state after walking from the Romilly through a heavy downpour was always going to provide a conversation starter!
5 handpulls had 4 Bitter clips and 1 Dark clip. Although the pub no longer stocks the Dark, as there is not enough call for it these days, the landlord saying that a cask has to be drunk within 3 days before it goes off. The clip is just kept for posterity. So Brains Bitter was the only real ale.
There is a lounge at the rear that was closed and in darkness. A corridor connects the bar with the lounge and the toilet facilities.
Whilst St Canna's will provide you with a decent beer experience, the Butchers Arms is more of a proper pub and as Aqualung has said, it is a good example of a traditional city local.
On 9th September 2022
- rating: 6
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Aqualung . left this review about The Butchers Arms
This is an original Brains pub as shown by the stained glass windows. It has a basic public bar and a rear lounge that I didn't venture into. The public bar is small and roughly square with two speakers on tripods at one side and a dart board. Two large TV screens were also present, one off and the other silent.
The bar has five hand pumps which had just Brains Dark & Bitter on. I went for the Dark (£2.85) which was probably the best pint of it I had on my Cardiff visit.
This is a real old school pub and if you visit Canton for the micropub opposite or the Crafty Devil bar then it's worth a look just to see what virtually all pubs used to be like.
On 3rd December 2018
- rating: 7
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