Castle Rock Brewery Tap. At least 11 Ales available including guests. Traditional Ciders & Perry's & over 30 Malt Whisky's. Serving great, traditional Pub food.
The Vat and Fiddle is the Castle Rock Brewery tap and therefore offers the full range of Castle Rock regular and occasional beers together with guest beers from other breweries. A short walk from Nottingham train station, the building was purpose built as a pub in the 1930s and retains many original art deco features and, without background music, exudes a traditional pub atmosphere.
Beside our hot food menu including Sunday lunch and many special dishes cooked with ale and cider, the Vat offers a range of filled rolls from mature cheddar & onion to our specialty of home roast beef & blue stilton. We have popular live music sessions on Sunday afternoons and occasional live music at other times including the occasional Rock and Blues night.
The pub has recently been extended to include the Golding’s Room and Castle Rock Brewery Visitors’ Centre. The Golding’s Room has a modern and fresh feel which is popular with diners. The Visitors’ Centre, with its own bar, is a gift shop and reception area for those attending tours of the brewery. Both of these rooms are available for hire and have been used for meetings, presentations and parties.
The Vat & Fiddle is proud to have a very diverse clientele, ranging from students to visiting football fans. Whatever they are drinking, whether it’s ale, wine, cider or one of our 60 single malt whiskeys, they all enjoy the Vat’s traditional pub atmosphere.
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Superb Castle Rock Brewery pub in Nottingham City. 5' minutes walk from main railway station. As an 'away' football fan, have only visited when my team are playing against Forest at The City Ground. Always welcomed by home fans; no rivalry or aggression. Absolutely stunning, superb selection of both Castle Rock & guest beers. + lagers & a good whisky selection! Only sampled food on football matchdays, but if this is an example of normal fayre, then can highly recommend it. Nothing fancy or ponsy! Just basic meals, toasties, chip butties, sausage butties, beef or veggie chilly for example. Staff extremely busy on matchdays so PLEASE be patient with them! They all do a fantastic job. Castle Rock Brewery attached to pub & Brewery tours can be booked. A fantastic pub
Visited Saturday 15th July 2023 late afternoon. Been meaning to visit for a while, just never got around to it. Location is ideal if you're around the train station as it's literally across the road. Castle Rocks tap house so obviously has a full range of CR beers; however, as with all CR pubs there's also a great range of guest cask and keg beers alongside a fridge full of craft beer cans and bottles, obviously there's also lager, wine, spirits, soft drinks etc. We ended up eating the loaded fries while we were there, a portion of buffalo and a portion of hamburger, both of which were delicious and reasonable value. Staff were friendly and approachable, the place had a nice atmosphere. The pub itself is a proper old school pub, hard floors throughout and traditional decor with seating out front and a large yard out back. Definitely worth a visit.
Not a bad place for a drink. Superb location just next to the train station which is more handy.service was good so as ales from the Castle Rock brewery.
Great pub with great selection of beers and great staff. Food is pretty good, crisp selection is wide, and the outdoor seating is lovely in the sunshine too. Great boozer not too far from Nottingham Train Station, great as a place to stop while waiting for that train home.
Return visit, October 2022: Still the good real ale pub that I first visited in the mid 2010s. Castle Rock beers from the well (the brewery is right next door), and at moderate prices. How much you'll gravitate towards Castle Rock's ales is another question, but there's always a wide variety available and they are all certainly the freshest here that they can be. Relaxed atmosphere, friendly staff. I don't remember the covered outside seating from my previous visits, and it's certainly nice to relax out there on a mild autumn evening. Certainly a nicer place to hang out than the sparsely decorated, "colder" BeerhHeadZ right AT Nottingham Station, also far less expensive.
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Opening Times
| Mon | 11:00 – 23:00 |
| Tue | 11:00 – 23:00 |
| Wed | 11:00 – 23:00 |
| Thur | 11:00 – 00:00 |
| Fri | 11:00 – 00:00 |
| Sat | 11:00 – 00:00 |
| Sun | 11:00 – 00:00 |
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Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG2