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The Elms, Burton on Trent
Burton on Trent
DE15 9AE
Served areas
Reviews of The Elms (Average Rating: 8 of 10) see review guidelines
Blue Scrumpy left this review about The Elms
With time ticking on, I just had enough time for one more Burton pub before heading to the football ground. The Elms is situated slightly uphill and on the other side of the river Trent from town. It is in fact in the Stapenhill area.
This is a nice, traditional pub that has been modernised a litte without spoiling it. There are 2 rooms at the front of the pub, with another to the rear of the bar. Beyond that, there is a much larger modern lounge.
Bass & Landlord are regular beers here. Citra was the guest. A decent pub, but not quite on a par with those in the centre.
On 29th September 2023
- rating: 6
[User has posted 2452 recommendations about 2451 pubs]
Pub SignMan left this review about The Elms
Stuck out on the ‘wrong’ side of the River Trent from the town centre, this is a lovely multi room pub that merits the trek over the water to check out. You enter through a front door with nice etched glass panes bearing the pub name, emerging into a quarry stone floored corridor with smartly painted walls decorated with nice old local photos and some high quality breweriana. There are seating areas either side of this corridor on entry, both of which are bare boarded and boast some nice full-height wall panels. The servery can be found in the left-hand room, where hard bench seating fills the front window bay and a couple of tables and chairs are squeezed into the corners and a lit fireplace on the end wall ensures a cosy feel. The right-hand room has comfortable upholstered banquettes around its perimeter with plenty of low stools in support. There’s also a fireplace on the end wall here too, but it wasn’t lit, which was handy as I was pretty warm having marched out here from the train station. A third, smaller room can be found further along the corridor, facing the back of the servery which means you can’t see which beers are on from here – high stool seating is the order of the day in this space, which was notably unoccupied on my visit. Further back, the pub opens out substantially, as the corridor empties into a restaurant style space with loads of tables and chairs and nice contemporary décor which doesn’t clash with the pub’s overall traditional feel. Music played quietly in the background throughout my stay, and I didn’t notice any TV screens or other such intrusions.
There were four handpulls in operation when I arrived, dispensing Taylors landlord, Draught Bass, Ossett Yorkshire Blonde and Oakham Citra. A very friendly barmaid served up a pint of the latter, which was in excellent shape and just what I needed after the long traipse out here.
This is a very pleasant pub with several nice seating areas, a well-kept selection of ales and very friendly service, which make it well worth crossing the river for. It seems like the sort of place that could work for traditionalists as well as those who prefer a more contemporary setting and I’d happily return if time permitted me to reach such an outlier.
On 7th June 2023
- rating: 8
[User has posted 3114 recommendations about 3114 pubs]
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Steve of N21 left this review about The Elms
Initially missed to visit this one on the official Pubs Galore Burton crawl but staying in town had the opportunity for a lunch time visit the following day after a very pleasant walk along the banks of the River Trent from Branston. ( By the way todays quiz question is, with regards to the Premier Inn Burton On Trent Central, it’s central to what exactly ?). On a more positive note we found the Elms to be a proper pub with proper beer and proper cold kitchen pub food.
Firstly it’s a cracking pub building. The original Victorian section is still in place with three separate small rooms arranged around the central serving area accessed by a corridor that retains a serving hatch. Still a very traditional feel to these rooms but the small bow-windowed panelled room to the right-hand side of the central entrance is the pick. Then there is a more modern mainly flagstone extension section to the back of the original building which doubles, if not trebles the inside space and, although lacking the character of the front section, is comfortable enough and contains a large flat screen tele for those wishing to view the sport. And then beyond this is a very nice outside enclosed raised walled courtyard garden which was catching the mid day sun for our visit and has the benefit of being far enough back that any traffic noise is negligible.
Secondly a decent selection of ales were available. The front bar supports four hand pumps and for our visit these were badged with the beers described by Ray below, who I must have missed by minutes, namely Timothy Taylor Landlord, Totally Brewed Four Hop Men of the Apocalypse, Draught Bass and Oakham Citra. We went for the Oakham Citra which was on fine form.
No hot food was available, but large cobs ( as I believe they call them in these parts ) were available from behind the bar and cheese board and pork pie platters were being advertised on a chalk board. We went for one each of these and they hit the spot completely. No better pub food has ever been devised than a substantial locally produced Pork Pie and English Mustard for soaking up a pint of English ale.
With very friendly service levels from the team working the bar we enjoyed our visit here, and I would thoroughly recommend the slight uphill detour from the banks of the nearby River Trent to visit this one.
On 30th October 2022
- rating: 8
[User has posted 2111 recommendations about 1992 pubs]
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- Accommodation : No last updated 30 June 2020 by Quinno _
- Bar Billiards : No last updated 30 June 2020 by Quinno _
- Beer Garden : Yes last updated 30 June 2020 by Quinno _
- CAMRA Discount : No last updated 30 June 2020 by Quinno _
- Child Friendly : Yes last updated 11 March 2020 by Will Larter
- Darts : No last updated 30 June 2020 by Quinno _
- Dog Friendly : Yes last updated 11 March 2020 by Will Larter
- Hot Food : Yes last updated 30 June 2020 by Quinno _
- Jukebox : No last updated 30 June 2020 by Quinno _
- Karaoke : No last updated 30 June 2020 by Quinno _
- Live Music : Yes last updated 30 June 2020 by Quinno _
- Live TV Sports : Yes last updated 11 March 2020 by Will Larter
- Micropub : No last updated 07 June 2023 by Pub SignMan
- Pinball : No last updated 30 June 2020 by Quinno _
- Pool Table : No last updated 30 June 2020 by Quinno _
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 04 March 2009 by Will Larter
- Real Cider : No last updated 11 March 2020 by Will Larter
- Wheelchair Access : Yes - Requires assistance via the side entrance - last updated 11 March 2020 by Will Larter
- WiFi : Yes last updated 11 March 2020 by Will Larter
