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Reindeer, Norwich
Norwich
NR2 4AY
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The Reindeer Pub
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Reviews of Reindeer (Average Rating: 6½ of 10) see review guidelines
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about Reindeer
The Reindeer was the most disappointing of the pubs we tried in Norwich yesterday.
Things were starting to get a little hazy by this point. But I do recall a single, slightly dark room with a bar containing around a dozen handpulls. Sadly, only one of them had anything on. This was Potbelly Hedonism. However, the barmaid informed us that Wychwood Hobgoblin Gold was also available. When asked about real ciders, she said they were on order. They'd had a surge in interest and had unexpectedly sold out.
We had a couple of swift halves of the Hedonism before moving on.
On 18th September 2020
- rating: 5
[User has posted 2452 recommendations about 2451 pubs]
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Pub SignMan left this review about Reindeer
This is a large roadside pub on the busy Dereham Road to the west of the city centre. You enter into a vast, dark wood floored L-shaped room with the servery to the right running along the back wall. The bar back has some nicely worked wood including arches filled with pattered tiles. Opposite are pew formed booths serving long tables under the front windows whilst over on the far right side is a restaurant area with formal table and chair arrangements set up specifically for dining. A few antlers hang on the end wall and there are one or two reindeer themed prints, but otherwise this whole front section is fairly bland and empty, with blackboards listing food and drink details acting as the only other visual distraction. The left hand side seemed much cosier, with pew and standard seating arranged around some structural pillars in the front portion before the room extends to the rear where three steps lead you up to a well segmented space with lots of dark wood, bench and armchair seating, cluttered bookshelves and unusual antler light shades. A stuffed fox stands in a display case near to the doorway for the rear room, which is set up as a kind of conference room. A single, large table dominates the centre of the room although there is still space for an upright piano, a nice old dresser, a mounted stag's head and some remarkable timber beams. Some casks were also stacked up here for some unexplained reason and there is access out to a garden area which I failed to explore.
This is an Elgoods house and two of their beers - Black Dog and Cambridge Bitter - were available alongside Thornbridge Sequoia, Oakham Green Devil IPA, Woodfordes Sundew and Green Jack Trawlerboys. The keg range included Freedom Four, Elgoods Traditional Irish Stout, Five Points Pale, Bacchus Kriek and Kwak, although whether the latter is served in the silly glass, I could not say. I tried the Black Dog, which was a decent pint, but not quite as good as I'd hoped.
This is a smart, well kept pub that caters for drinkers and diners fairly well and makes a good break point if you're walking from the city centre to the classic ale houses in the back streets beyond. I thought this was a solid pub and worth including on a crawl around the area.
On 30th September 2014
- rating: 7
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Real Ale Ray left this review about Reindeer
This large pub has a minimalist L shaped interior with a long bar facing you as you enter. We arrived on a very cold evening and the pub was well heated. There were quite a few people here on our Tuesday eve visit. The pub had timber flooring throughout and the lighting was low with candles lit here and there. Ten ales on offer on our visit, I went for the Green Jack Trawlerboys and Elgoods Cambridge Bitter.
On 16th February 2013
- rating: 7
[User has posted 3382 recommendations about 3381 pubs]
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- Accommodation : No last updated 30 September 2014 by Pub SignMan
- Bar Billiards : No last updated 30 September 2014 by Pub SignMan
- Beer Garden : Yes last updated 30 September 2014 by Pub SignMan
- Child Friendly : Yes last updated 30 September 2014 by Pub SignMan
- Darts : No last updated 30 September 2014 by Pub SignMan
- Hot Food : Yes last updated 30 September 2014 by Pub SignMan
- Jukebox : No last updated 30 September 2014 by Pub SignMan
- Pinball : No last updated 30 September 2014 by Pub SignMan
- Pool Table : No last updated 30 September 2014 by Pub SignMan
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 07 June 2010 by Alan Hurdle
- Real Cider : Yes last updated 30 September 2014 by Pub SignMan
- Wheelchair Access : Yes last updated 30 September 2014 by Pub SignMan
- WiFi : Yes last updated 30 September 2014 by Pub SignMan
