Pub Of The Week: The Sheffield Tap
But just occasionally, you stumble across a rarer breed.
Certain stations are renowned among beer-lovers for being home to proper, old-fashioned ale houses, serving both the local community and the steady flow of passengers.
These kind of pubs are actively sought out by those in the know – witness the popularity of the TransPennine “real ale trail”, for example, where drinkers make the most of a cluster of delightful station pubs along the same.
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Hide AdThe Sheffield Tap falls firmly into this latter category, a grand, century-old Edwardian refreshment room with an air of real refinement within its polished panelled walls. Criminally, it was used as nothing more than a dusty storeroom for 40 years.
Now it has been restored in all its elegant glory, with a huge mahogany bar, ceilings which stretch up far into the sky and vast windows looking out across Platform One.
The beer itself is fantastic – eight real ales, including four regularly-changing guests, offer a fine selection, and an impressive lagers from around the world.
And come closing time, the final great appeal of the station pub is also self-evident – it is only the shortest of staggers to catch the last train home.
The Sheffield Tap, Sheffield Station, Sheaf Street, Sheffield S1 2BP. Tel: 0114 273 7558
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