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The Romany Rye (JD Wetherspoon), Dereham
Dereham
NR19 1DL
Reviews of The Romany Rye (JD Wetherspoon) (Average Rating: 6½ of 10) see review guidelines
Blue Scrumpy left this review about The Romany Rye (JD Wetherspoon)
This is Dereham's branch of Wetherspoon's and from what I saw, it is the best pub Dereham has to offer. It has a real ale range superior to all others in the town and stocks real cider too.
You enter into a nice lounge-like area which is well away from the bar and looked like a nice and peaceful area to enjoy a pint unless the pub is full. Up a few stairs, the main room is much darker and contains the bar itself at the rear. There is also an outdoor area off to the left.
It was the usual JDW ales - Sharp's Doom Bar, Greene King Abbot & Ruddles Best, along with 4 guest ales - Nottingham Supreme, Burton Bridge Top Dog Stout, Rudgate Ruby Mild & Purity Ubu. It was nice to see a couple of dark beers. Although I plumped for the Supreme, as I'd not tried that one before. Weston's Old Rosie & Gwynt y Ddraig Black Dragon were the real ciders.
We'd spotted some reduced price special meals on arriving. Now I know that the cow is a sacred animal in India, but my Beef Madras was just the ticket at £3.99.
As usual, a few of the local characters were in, but not too many to create a disturbance. So, I quite enjoyed my visit here. I couldn't find any other (open) decent real ale pubs in Dereham. So, this is just the kind of town that benefits from a Wetherspoon's.
On 12th June 2023
- rating: 7
[User has posted 2284 recommendations about 2283 pubs]
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Aqualung . left this review about The Romany Rye (JD Wetherspoon)
The Romany Rye is a JDW hotel named after a local bloke's book. His name was George Borrow and he was the damned fool who walked all over Wales instead of catching a bus like any normal person.
Inside it's a roughly square split level room divided into different areas. It was doing a roaring trade with food on my Tuesday early afternoon visit.
There are two sets of five hand pumps which had the JDW Trio Of Doom with the two GK beers doubled, Brecon Six Beacons, Purity UBU, Jenning's Clean Slate, Gadd's No 5 and Great Newsome Frothingham Best. I went for the Six Beacons (£2.15) which was only in reasonable nick.
It's OK as a Spoon but it did seem very food-led.
On 22nd February 2017
- rating: 6
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Graham Coombs left this review about The Romany Rye (JD Wetherspoon)
Large Wetherspoons in town centre with usual facilities. Not one of their more-exciting buildings, and different areas seemed to attract dufferent types of clientele. Was a little disappointed by the range of beers at time of visit, which seemed pretty predictable.
On 31st August 2013
- rating: 6
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Attleborough, 14.76 miles, 4 hr 45 min walk (show)
Spooner Row, 14.86 miles, 4 hr 46 min walk (show)
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- Accommodation : Yes last updated 31 August 2013 by Graham Coombs
- Bar Billiards : No last updated 31 August 2013 by Graham Coombs
- Beer Festivals : Yes last updated 22 February 2017 by Aqualung .
- Beer Garden : No - Patio - last updated 22 February 2017 by Aqualung .
- CAMRA Discount : Yes - 50p CAMRA vouchers accepted - last updated 12 June 2023 by Blue Scrumpy
- Car Park : No last updated 22 February 2017 by Aqualung .
- Child Friendly : Yes last updated 22 February 2017 by Aqualung .
- Darts : No last updated 22 February 2017 by Aqualung .
- Dog Friendly : No last updated 22 February 2017 by Aqualung .
- Function Room : Yes last updated 22 February 2017 by Aqualung .
- Hot Food : Yes last updated 16 July 2013 by Dave McNally
- Jukebox : No last updated 31 August 2013 by Graham Coombs
- Karaoke : No last updated 31 August 2013 by Graham Coombs
- Live Music : No last updated 31 August 2013 by Graham Coombs
- Live TV Sports : No last updated 22 February 2017 by Aqualung .
- Micropub : No last updated 22 February 2017 by Aqualung .
- Pinball : No last updated 31 August 2013 by Graham Coombs
- Pool Table : No last updated 31 August 2013 by Graham Coombs
- Quiz Night : No last updated 22 February 2017 by Aqualung .
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 16 July 2013 by Dave McNally
- Real Cider : Yes last updated 22 February 2017 by Aqualung .
- Wheelchair Access : Yes last updated 31 August 2013 by Graham Coombs
- WiFi : Yes last updated 16 July 2013 by Dave McNally
