A rare night in Sheffield, amazingly. How dull.
On Sunday night the crafties had left town after Sheffield Beer Week (ugh !) so it was safe to go to a pub again. Mrs RM picked the Rutland Arms, as it has good food. Or perhaps because it’s in my Top 100 Pubs, who knows.
It certainly has one THE great pub interiors, and I’ve been in a few (and a few duffers).
This might very well be my favourite view from a pub seat, and Mrs RM went for it.
My priority was getting fed (ironically after Bath) and with the website saying food stopped at 18:00 I simply went to the bar at 17:58 and pleaded.
“You’ve got two minutes to order” said the barperson, who I liked immensely for such precision.
I had the curry; it was superb trencherman stuff. No idea what a trencherman is, but neither have you.
Pints of Blue Bee murk and something else local for £3.60 remind you why you live in Sheffield and not Sherfield (on Loddon).
But she got her own back when I mixed up Tatu, presumably banned because they’re anti-war Russians, with the Cheeky Girls of Lembit Opik fame. But Lib Dems ARE banned in Sheffield, surely. Life is so confusing, I had another beer.
At the bar, a foreign student was trying to blag a free pint of the 10% keg.
“I am not paying for it. HA HA. Only joking. HA HA”
Perhaps it was subliminal advertising, because I bought myself a half of that Imperial stout with a badly stuck-on label, and a Kernel sour, because dinosaurs.
There really is a tremendous keg selection in the Rutland, as good as anything in London or Manchester.
But it’s all about the jukebox, oddly. No Kangaroo Air Force Elevator, but pretty much anything else to enjoy while sipping your sours and stouts.
Where else can you hear Duran Duran non-ironically ?
Mind you, the scream at the end of Costello’s “Man Out of Time”, playing as we left, might well have been a comment on the Gents.
retiredmartin 
What are Mrs RM’s top ten UK pubs and Sheffield pubs? Two lists.
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Good to see Weller on the banned list, but no Stereophonics is surely an error!
It’s nice to see slightly tatty craft beer fontage like that, it says to me “It’s just beer! Get over yourself…”, and I’m much less likely to fall for the £20 Impy Stout/Gose/Mild/Haribo silliness as a result.
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I guess Stereophonics have now reached the same level as Shakin Stevens – a much loved novelty act.
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Good point.
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I thought at first glance it was Toto rather than Tatu.
I once saw a pub advertising an upcoming gig by the “Above Average Weight Band” 😄
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You’d have enjoyed the Intensely Staring Cats at the Stonewell in Lancaster a couple of years ago. https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/63363/
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Rude to stare.
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Toto have come full circle, haven’t they ? “Africa” is a meme, and I’ve heard “Rosanna” in pubs this year.
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Tatu might be forbidden, but they still get airtime on BBC Radio Cambs.
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STILL ?
What about the Cheeky Girls ?
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If only Sherfield was like Sheffield.
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Been ar least two Beer Guide pubs there in recent years, neither of which can I remember.
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That’s because they’re not memorable! Took Si to the Four Horseshoes about 16 months ago, he’s probably forgotten it.
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Tantalisingly you only give us a peek at the adjacent Recommended Music board. Assume the Sultans of Bland, Dire Straits, have been omitted in error from the forbidden list. There must be a tribute b(l)and based in Sheffield – Dore Straits perhaps.
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9/10. Fine work.
But Dire Straits and good pubs go together like chocolate porter and Cole Porter, surely.
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They’re not called dire for nothing. You could be onto something with the porters though.
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